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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 Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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    Press Release: Book Launch and Seminar of Fragile States: Causes, Costs, and Responses

    UNU-WIDER Book launch and Seminar of Fragile States: Causes, Costs, and Responses.

    • Fragile states
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    Press release: Mozambican business environment continues to pose challenges for manufacturing firms

    Press release: Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme to launch report at public forum on 23 April 2018 Maputo — Mozambican manufacturing firms continue to face logistical, regulatory, and financial constraints that hinder their ability to function...

    • Manufacturing firms
    • Manufacturing
    • Manufacturing industries
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    Press release: UNU-WIDER 30th Anniversary Conference brings together some of the world’s most eminent development experts

    The conference brings together key academic figures such as Nobel laureates in economics Professors Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as a new generation of researchers and practitioners.

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    Press Release: Trickle-down economics is not a tenable premise for development, leading economists argue in Stockholm Statement

    Thirteen of the world's leading development economists* — including four former Chief economists of the World Bank and 10 prominent members of the UNU-WIDER global network — have released the Stockholm Statement, in which they summarize what they see as the core principles for development policy-making going forward. Traditional economic thinking no longer applies. Inequality within countries is threatening social cohesion and economic progress, and development needs to be seen in a broader perspective in order to achieve more equitable and sustainable results

    • New Directions in Development Economics
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    Press Release: Nordic Ministers for Development Cooperation to Helsinki - Towards Closer Cooperation

    Minister for International Development Pekka Haavisto has invited his Nordic colleagues to Helsinki on 13–14 March. The purpose of the meeting is to enhance Nordic cooperation on development policy issues. The participants in the meetings will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson (Iceland), Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen (Denmark), and State Secretaries Tanja Rasmusson (Sweden) and Hans Brattskar (Norway).

    • Development aid
    • Fragile states
    • Development finance
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    Press release - AL20

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) will host the WIDER Annual Lecture 20 at the Stockholm School of Economics on 23 March 2016. The lecture will be delivered by Martin Ravallion, a leading economist in the study of poverty and policies for fighting it.

    • Poverty
    • Inequality
    • Social protection
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    Press release: New study shows democracy aid works

    Does development cooperation aimed at strengthening democracy work? A new study from the Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) addresses critical knowledge gaps on aid assistance. The report, published today, is the most comprehensive study on democracy aid to date.

    • Aid effectiveness
    • Democracy aid
    • Democracy
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    Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER

    ‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’

    • SDGs
    • Transformation
    • Informality
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    Press release: Public Forum on Higher Education: A Profile of Mozambican Graduates

    ‘ Inclusive growth in Mozambique ’ programme to launch a report at a public forum on 04 September 2018 Researchers will be available for interviews at the event The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum at the Hotel...

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    • Higher education
    • Employment
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    Press release - UNU-WIDER conference aims to improve global responses to crises

    Experts available for press interviews on core crisis response issues Helsinki, Finland — Experts from around the world will gather this week at the ‘Responding to crises’ conference in Helsinki. The main goal of the event is to strengthen...

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    Press release: Survey finds the manufacturing sector remains instrumental for Myanmar’s economic growth and transformation

    YANGON, MYANMAR and HELSINKI, FINLAND – A new report published by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) and the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) says that Myanmar’s manufacturing sector is more...

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    • Myanmar enterprises monitoring system
    • MEMS
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    Press release: Fixing Latin America’s social protection system

    On the evening of 30 October, Santiago Levy, main architect of Progresa/Oportunidades — Mexico's incentive-based health, nutrition and education programme for the poor — will deliver the 23rd WIDER Annual Lecture.

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    Press release: The Future of Work in the Global South – UNU-WIDER and ESCAP conference
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    Press release - Global income inequality has declined in relative terms, but gone up substantially in absolute amounts

    Helsinki, Finland – Researchers from United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) have found that during the last four decades global income inequality decreased substantially in ‘relative’ terms, but...

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    Press Release: New data reveals developing economies are bucking trend of de-industrialization
    • Economic Transformation Database
    • Deindustrialization
    • Economic transformation
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    Press Release: New research reveals close to $1 trillion in profits shifted to tax havens

    A new research paper published by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) shows the first global estimates of profits shifted to tax havens between 1975-2019. The study documents a remarkable increase in profit shifting, with close to $1 trillion or 40% of multinational profits shifted to tax havens in 2019. Globally, 10% of corporate tax revenues are lost as a result.

    • Profit shifting
    • Corporate tax
    • Taxes
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