The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century by Gabriel Zucman

WIDER Annual Lecture 28 Brief
Photo by Vitaly Taranov on Unsplash

New estimates of the cost of ending poverty

What does it mean and how much would it cost?

UNU-WIDER launches a free online training course in tax-benefit microsimulation for Global South countries
AR2023-banner

2023 UNU-WIDER Annual Report released

UNU-WIDER has released its Annual Report for 2023, showcasing a year of impactful research, policy influence, and global collaboration aimed at tackling some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Stories of change banner image - photo by Tim Mossholder / Unsplash

Stories of Change – new video series out now!

Hear from policymakers, academics, and development experts about the transformations our domestic revenue mobilization research programme has been able to catalyse. Click here to watch!
Element series banner

New Elements out now

Cambridge Elements in Development Economics is an Open Access series of peer-reviewed, original, authoritative, and succinct publications combining the best features of books and journals, made especially for digital access!
In brief

Check out our research in brief

Our research and policy briefs provide a short overview with key findings, lessons, and policy implications, from some of our key research outputs.
Photo: Alexander Zach / UNU-WIDER

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

7 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Filter by...

Reset all
Type
Book Chapter
Climate change and the extractives sector

Part of Book Extractive Industries

Working Paper
Climate change and developing country interests

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that...

Blog
Indonesia's huge fires and toxic haze will cause health problems for years to come
Placeholder

Indonesia is currently in the throes of an environmental emergency. Thousands of hectares of forest are burning across the vast country, causing toxic...

Research Brief
Global mitigation policies and developing country economies
Research Uptake
Climate modelling for improving development strategy – The case of South Africa

Through the Development Under Climate Change (DUCC) project UNU-WIDER supported efforts by the government of South Africa to develop an integrated approach to assess the effects of climate change on the national economy. Climate analysis for economic...

Blog
From CoP15 to CoP21 – Three crucial changes in the climate mitigation landscape
Placeholder

The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is rapidly approaching. Compared with the last...

Project
ReCom - research and communication on foreign aid

Theme: 2010-11

Displaying 7 of 7 results