Blog
From The Editor's Desk (October 2012)
Tony Addison UNU-WIDER is having a very active and successful autumn. Our climate change and development policy conference at the end of September...
Blog
The Great African Data Debate
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
September 2013
24 September 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén At the recent UNU-WIDER conference here in Helsinki on inclusive growth in Africa, the quality of national...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)
Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...
Blog
Measuring Poverty Over Time
Luc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family...
Blog
Voices from Fragile States: The Resilient Problem of Human Development
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Jamie Bleck, Kristin Michelitch
March 2013
Jamie Bleck and Kristin Michelitch [1] Mali has continued to be in the news since its military coup in March 2012. Much of the news coverage on Mali...
Blog
Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks: Findings from Melanesia
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Simon Feeny
December 2013
9 December 2013 Simon Feeny Vulnerability and resilience are very closely related terms. Vulnerability is usually referred to as the likelihood of...
News
Findings from a new study on poverty and consumption featured in the national news
A UNU-WIDER Working Paper ‘Simulating the effect on households’ real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015–16 economic crisis in Mozambique’, published in 2018, has been featured in one the leading national newspapers in Mozambique.
Presentation
Donor workshop in Hanoi on Vietnam access to resources household survey and associated studies
Presentation
Wed, 27 November 2013
CAP/IPSARD,
16 Thụy Khuê, Quận Tây Hồ,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Presentation
Introduction to VARHS in-depth studies and study on happiness
Presentation - Introduction Presentation - Study
Thu, 21 November 2013
CIEM,
68 Phan Đình Phùng, Quận Ba Đình,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Policy seminar
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Vietnam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
Wed, 5 August 2015
Central Institute for Economic Management, Main Hall,
68 Phan Dinh Phung Str. Ba Dinh,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event