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Developing countries would benefit from improved tax collection: What can help?
by Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen March 2019

The ability to raise revenues from taxes – called “fiscal capacity” – is a crucial aspect for the functioning of any state. Being able to tax citizens...

  • Tax revenue
  • Fiscal capacity
  • Income tax
Blog
How can developing countries deliver effective public financial planning?
by Antonio Savoia, Roberto Ricciuti, Kunal Sen May 2019

In many less developed countries, there is little problem identifying the need for public investment in programmes aimed at improving things such as...

  • SDGs
  • SDG16
  • SDG17
Journal Article
Investigating Growing Inequality in Mozambique

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

  • Inequality
  • Mozambique
  • Decomposition
Blog
Mini-documentary: Viet Nam’s data revolution is well on its way
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by Katrina Jurva July 2017

The international community rarely calls for a revolution. In this case, it has. A data revolution, says UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp. Viet Nam has...

  • Structural transformation
  • SDGs
  • Sustainable development
Blog
How to build a data revolution: First steps
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by Katrina Jurva August 2017

This year UNU-WIDER is launching several video series to highlight the wide span of policy-relevant work undertaken by the Institute and its worldwide...

  • Data revolution
  • SDGs
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Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10

Charles Gore presented at the WIDER Seminar Series on 19 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10 Presentation slides An important feature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed as part...

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Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs

Theme: Transforming economies

  • SDGs
  • Sustainable development
  • Research institutes
Working Paper
Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs?

In this paper, we explore the relationship between foreign aid fungibility and aggregate welfare. Using panel data from 35 low-income and lower-middle-income countries, we first check the presence of sectoral aid fungibility in our sample and find...

  • Foreign aid
  • Econometrics
  • Aggregate welfare
Working Paper
Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty

In this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. Our estimates are based on three scenarios: low, medium, and high...

  • Global poverty
  • COVID-19
  • SDGs
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Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic

The contribution of this study is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue there is a political economy of overoptimism in the measurement of global poverty. Specifically, we...

  • COVID-19
  • Crisis
  • Global poverty
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Data for development
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by Timothy Shipp March 2022

The first of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms, everywhere. The monumental task — a long-time dream of...

  • Data
  • SDGs
  • UNU-WIDER Annual Report
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Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals

Concerns about the dramatic rise in income inequality across the world and, at the same time, assessments of national progress on the Millennium Development Goals made it clear that it is the intersection of income inequality, marginalized social...

  • Income distribution
  • Intersecting inequalities
  • Labour market segmentation
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The political economy of the resource curse

This article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes. To date, this area has received less analysis, although it is relevant to...

  • Resource abundance
  • Inequality
  • Institutions
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Above or below the poverty line: Three key questions for understanding shifts in global poverty
by Andy Sumner, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez January 2022

In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example here...

  • COVID-19
  • Global poverty
  • Crisis
Working Paper
International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected states

The principle of inclusive development lies at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular Goal 16, with its focus on inclusive societies backed by inclusive institutions. Yet despite its ubiquity across the SDGs...

  • SDGs
  • Inclusion
  • Peacebuilding
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COVID-19 and global poverty

The study paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of IMF’s growth forecasts. It shows that the pandemic will erode many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our...

  • COVID-19
  • Global poverty
  • Least Developed Countries
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