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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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Book Chapter
The role of gender in the extractive industries

Part of Book Extractive Industries

News
Pathfinding new book on Social Mobility in Developing Countries out now
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Aid in a Post-2015 World

Now out the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme summary which outlines 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.

News
Finn Tarp Moderates Public Meeting on Nordic Development Cooperation

The Finnish Minister for International Development Pekka Haavisto invited his Nordic colleagues to Helsinki to discuss how to enhance cooperation on development policy issues.

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Lessons from ReCom in a post-2015 perspective

ReCom (Research and Communication on Foreign Aid) occupied a key role in UNU-WIDER’s 2010-13 work programme addressing the triple crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change. Some 240 ReCom studies were prepared during a period of 3-years by around 300...

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SIDA, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gender equality

Theme: 2010-11

Factsheet
The quantity and quality of women’s work
Blog
A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
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In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...

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The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
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The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler. While all of us, rich and poor, faced the fear and...

Blog
Does access to microfinance help or hinder women’s empowerment?

Almost everywhere, women are underrepresented in labour markets compared to men. While labour force participation among women of working age (FLFP)...

Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The household survey data used in...

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Viet Nam

Book Chapter
Characteristics of the VARHS data and other data sources

Part of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

Book Chapter
Rural transformation

Part of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

Working Paper
A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and...

Policy Brief
Six sets of policy actions to promote social mobility

Promoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility. Policies of human capital...

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