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Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

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Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

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The global consumption and income project

We introduce two separate datasets—the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset—containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version...

  • Economic growth
  • Equality and inequality
  • Income distribution
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Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized Countries

The purpose of this paper is to outline trends and patterns in movements of asylum-seekers to Western so-called industrialized countries from 1990-2001. The paper begins by characterizing three distinct phases of asylum migration since the end of the...

  • Emigration and immigration
  • Social conflict
  • Statistics
Book Chapter
The Viet Nam SME data 2005-15

Part of Book Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

  • Economic surveys
  • Small business
  • Medium business
Blog
The Great African Data Debate
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by Carl-Gustav Lindén September 2013

24 September 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén At the recent UNU-WIDER conference here in Helsinki on inclusive growth in Africa, the quality of national...

  • Economic growth
  • Equality and inequality
  • Household survey
Blog
Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic
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by Sreenivasan Subramanian December 2013

9 December 2013 S. Subramanian 1 Introduction It appears that the World Bank is planning to maintain and disseminate systematic information on a...

  • Economic growth
  • Poverty measurement
  • Income
Blog
Imperfect Data Increases Uncertainty
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by Carl-Gustav Lindén May 2013

9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...

  • Climate change
  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Information technology
Blog
Inclusive Growth in Africa
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by Roger Williamson September 2013

24 September 2013 Roger Williamson Another big weekend for UNU-WIDER. The stage was well set on Thursday 19 September for a consideration of...

  • Economic policy
  • Equality and inequality
  • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Journal Article
Unravelling a Conceptual Muddle: India's Poverty Statistics in the Light of Basic Demand Theory

For some time now, there has been growing dissatisfaction with the conceptual basis of India’s official poverty statistics, with specific reference to the manner in which the Planning Commission has sought to address the ‘identification’ problem in...

  • Poverty
  • Statistics
Blog
Focus on Poverty: Big Data is no Shortcut to Equality
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by Roger Williamson May 2014

27 May 2014 Roger Williamson For a school prize in the 1960s, I insisted on having a book on the revolution taking place in traditional social life...

  • Economic surveys
  • Equality and inequality
  • Methodology (Economics)
Workshop
STATA intermediate course for revenue authorities

A new 3-day Stata Intermediate training course is provided to 21 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at revenue authorities and research institutes in Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The course is prepared and presented by...

6 October 2021 – 8 October 2021
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Code development training for Tanzania Revenue authority

UNU-WIDER organized an online code development training workshop using the Stata statistical software for the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) staff on 20 January 2021. The objective of the training was to build the technical capacity of the TRA...

20 January 2021
Online, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Workshop
Quantitative methods for applied economic analysis
27 September 2016 – 30 September 2016
Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
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Book Chapter
Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized Countries, 1990-2001

Part of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

  • Emigration and immigration
  • Social conflict
  • Statistics
Report
Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment

This is the sixth time that the collaborative small and medium enterprise (SME) panel survey has been conducted among formal and informal manufacturing firms in Viet Nam. The results of previous survey rounds, those of 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and...

  • Economic conditions
  • Economic surveys
  • Small business
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Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment (in Vietnamese)

Đây là lần thứ 6 điều tra về doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa (DNNVV) được thực hiện đối với các doanh nghiệp trong lĩnh vực sản xuất thuộc cả khu vực chính thức và phi chính thức ở Việt Nam. Kết quả từ các cuộc điều tra trước đây, bao gồm các năm 2005, 2007...

  • Economic conditions
  • Economic surveys
  • Small business
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Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment (in Vietnamese)

This report represents the seventh time that the small and medium enterprise (SME) survey has been conducted. The results of previous survey rounds, and in particular those of 2005, 2007, and 2009 inspired the Central Institute for Economic...

  • Economic conditions
  • Economic surveys
  • Small business
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