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Bringing in Public Economics – An Interview with Jukka Pirttilä
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29 March 2014 Quite a few prominent Finnish economists have been collaborating with UNU-WIDER throughout the years. One of them is Jukka Pirttilä, who...

Working Paper
International Mobility of Researchers and Scientists

High demand for researchers and scientists has led to an increase in skilled migration in recent years. The paper focuses on improving our understanding of the push and pull factors affecting the migration decisions of researchers and scientists from...

Project
Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs

Theme: Transforming economies

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UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
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24 September 2009 Finn Tarp, New Director at UN University-WIDER* ‘Some of us believe in analysing, some of us believe in humanising’ - Donovan...

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WIDER Annual Lectures – Taking Stock
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​ I am looking forward to WIDER Annual Lecture 18, held 18 November in New York not only because I expect that Peter Timmer will make a distinguished...

Blog
Open Access and UNU-WIDER
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21 February 2014 Tony Addison Development researchers live in a world where research on development, not just in economics but also political science...

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New Winds at UNU-WIDER – An Interview with Channing Arndt
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25 June 2014 Professor Channing Arndt is a US citizen who recently started as a Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He was especially attracted by...

Working Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefited from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries...

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From the Editor's Desk (January 2014)
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28 January 2014 Tony Addison The first Angle of 2014 comes amidst the start up of our new research programme which is now kicked off. It has three big...

Blog
UNU-WIDER in Ghana – An Interview with Wisdom Akpalu
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23 April 2014 Wisdom Akpalu joined UNU-WIDER as a Research Fellow based in Ghana in the beginning of 2014. Prior to joining the Institute he was an...

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Institutions and Impact – Some Reflections on the UNU-WIDER Method
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I have spent much of the last two years on behalf of UNU-WIDER engaged in thinking about these two issues, but only on this current trip to Toronto...

Presentation
Group visit by the Helsinki Students' UN Association (HYKY ry)

Group visit by the Helsinki Students’ UN Association for a seminar on UNU-WIDER’s mandate and research programme, with a research presentation on the UNU-WIDER project ‘ Development Under Climate Change ’ given by James Thurlow, Research Fellow at...

3 May 2012
UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Group visit by the Finnish parliamentary Development Policy Committee

Group visit by 12 members of the Finnish parliamentary Development Policy Committee, for a briefing on UNU-WIDER's research projects, particularly research work within the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid.

12 February 2014
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Book Chapter
International Mobility of Researchers and Scientists

Part of Book The International Mobility of Talent

Blog
An Interview with David Malone
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17 October 2013 In this video we interview the Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), David Malone from Canada, who has held both diplomatic...

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From Helsinki to Hanoi – An Interview with UNU-WIDER Alumnus Aziz Karimov
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21 February 2014 Susan Servas An interview with WIDER alumnus, Aziz Karimov Every year UNU-WIDER hosts a number of PhD interns and young scholars from...

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