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UNU-WIDER 2022 Annual Report is released

2022 was a key year in the UNU-WIDER 2019–2023 work programme, with great achievements made possible through our partnerships and collaborations Read more in the 2022 Annual Report.
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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

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Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
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21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...

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Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement and Implications: An Interview with James Foster
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17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...

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Measuring quality of care

The United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 seeks “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all and at all ages”. To build healthcare systems that were able to progress towards the millennium development goals, many countries...

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Measuring quality of health-care services

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Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervision

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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania

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Quality of routine essential care during childbirth

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Records of medical malpractice litigation

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A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countries

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Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn care

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Community-based approaches for neonatal survival

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Quality of care

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Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia

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Changing the narratives for patient safety

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Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malaria

Can agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility...

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Income, Income Inequality, and Health

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier...

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