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To die from hunger or the virus: An all too real dilemma for the poor in India (and elsewhere)
On March 24, in a speech to the nation, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced a 21-day lockdown. With only four hours’ notice, 1.3 billion people were expected to stay at home and not venture out for three weeks...
informal work Informality COVID-19Blog
7555 km and beyond: Working together to achieve the SDGs'It was great to have enough time to discuss each paper. I received useful and frank feedback. The topics are relevant for everyone...
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The structural changes of the economy have been a significant contributor to Vietnam’s impressive growth over the past 30 years...
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Welfare works: redistribution is the way to create less violent, less unequal societies
In his presidential address to the Royal Economic Society in 1996, the late Professor Anthony Atkinson famously called for discussion of inequality and income distribution to be brought ' in from the cold '...
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Why is inequality in South Africa higher than in Germany?: Explaining income distributions with ‘decompositions’
The understanding of inequality requires the analysis of changes in income distributions across countries and over time as well as the identification of its drivers...
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When COVID-19 comes to Africa
There is no telling how long it will take to bring the COVID-19 coronavirus under control, or how many people will be affected...
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Solving the PhD puzzle: My experience as a visiting PhD Fellow
I am now in my fourth year as a PhD student in development studies at SOAS, University of London, working on my thesis, ‘The Dynamics of Chinese Private Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry...
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Meet the women behind the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme
Globally, women are under-represented in the field of economics. Only a third of all academic research staff in the field of economics in Europe are women. In the US the share is even lower ...
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Miner’s son turned mining researcher
Tony Addison is the first in his family not to become a miner. He has decades of experience in development economics and economic reform in developing countries. It was a rainy day in London at the turn of the 1980s...
Research Brief
One common characteristic of the fast-growing countries with good labour market outcomes — Korea, China, Vietnam — was their initially equal household income level, which was the result of renewed distribution of income...
Employment Growth DevelopmentFactsheet
Over the past three decades, there has been notable progress on certain key dimensions of gender equality. Almost universally the gender gap in education has been narrowed and commitments to secure equal access to employment have advanced...
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From small beginnings, big impact
2020 marks the 35th year of UNU-WIDER’s impact in the sphere of development economics...
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How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequalityIn 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes...
Administrative data Employment GenderBlog
Informing policy for a brighter future in Cameroon: Rose’s Summer School experience
In developing countries in general, and Cameroon in particular, young people struggle to get the quality of education needed for upward social mobility...
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Building skills to influence policy at home and abroad: Learning and growing with UNU-WIDER
UNU-WIDER has featured prominently in my research career to date...
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Book review of Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development: Completing a trilogy on Asia’s transformation Deepak Nayyar — economist, thinker, leading scholar — has written yet another splendid book...