Blog
Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
March 2013
21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...
Blog
Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement and Implications: An Interview with James Foster
by
Roger Williamson
October 2013
17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...
Blog
Measuring outpatient safety at scale: infection prevention and control practices in Kenya
by
Guadalupe Bedoya, Jishnu Das
June 2017
Primum non nocere — first, do no harm. This most basic tenet of medical care is routinely violated in clinics and hospitals around the world today...
Blog
Building the learning agenda: Spotlight on the Global Learning Laboratory for Quality Universal Health Coverage
by
Nana Mensah Abrampah
June 2017
Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...
Blog
Diversity debit vs. diversity dividend: Challenging the conventional wisdom
It is widely accepted in recent work in economics and political science that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on the provision of public goods...
Blog
Income generation and malaria in Uganda
by
Saurabh Singhal, Yao Pan
December 2017
Several large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a...
Blog
Is a strong middle class the secret to high levels of human development?
by
David Castells-Quintana, Carlos Gradín, Vicente Royuela
April 2023
Many countries today experience increasing or persistent income inequality, a major concern for citizens and politicians alike. This concern is...
Blog
Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8
This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development...
Blog
Out of the Poverty Trap Through Higher Aspirations?
Why does a mother from a poor African village not send her daughter to school, but instead marries her off to an old man as a second or third wife...
Blog
The End of History
by
Ravi Kanbur
2001
by Ravi Kanbur When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it was famously heralded as "the end of history" the end of all "big" debates on the organization of...
Workshop
How to make news out of foreign aid
The workshop will provide journalists with conceptual tools needed for understanding and reporting on the impact of foreign aid on development in different themes ranging from economic growth at the macro level to the consequences of specific...
Mon, 24 June 2013
University of Helsinki,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Blog
Child Well-Being in an Expanding EU
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John Micklewright, Kitty Stewart
2000
by John Micklewright and Kitty Stewart The accession of up to 13 new members in the next decade is the most important development now facing the...
Blog
Does women’s education reduce rates of death in childbirth?
by
Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
November 2016
Every single day, approximately 830 women die from causes related to childbirth. Despite considerable advances in maternal health over the last three...
Blog
Improving adult health increases children’s schooling - evidence from Zambia
by
Adrienne Lucas
June 2016
Both health and education are essential for reducing poverty. Unfortunately, the two are often interlinked and in many countries both are severely...
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 10 - Global Patterns of Income and Health
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we take income and health together, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone.
Fri, 29 September 2006
Marina Congress Center,
Katajanokanlaituri 6,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Blog
Global Patterns of Income and Health
by
Angus Deaton
2006
by Angus Deaton Inequalities in income and inequalities in health Global inequality takes many dimensions. Not only is there great inequality across...
Blog
Women’s Status and Child Health
by
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Gautam Hazarika
2008
by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Gautam Hazarika Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s population is currently suffering from one or more forms of...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2014)
26 March 2014 Tony Addison Looking over recent UNU-WIDER publications, I am struck by the diversity of topics and countries that we have managed to...
Blog
Aid and the Social Sectors: Reflections from the Stockholm Results Meeting
17 April 2013 Tony Addison and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa We learnt much from the ReCom Results meeting on 13th March in Stockholm on aid and the social...
Blog
Aid to the Social Sectors – Achievements and Mistakes
by
Susanna Wasielewsk Ahlfors
March 2013
22 March 2013 The share of aid to social sectors has grown over the past 20 years. Evidence shows clear links between support to these sectors and...
Blog
Changing the lives of very young children: Evidence from Rwanda
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Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla, Monique Abimpaye, Caroline Dusabe, Diane Uwamahoro, Richard Germond
November 2020
Globally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...
Blog
Tackling the Main Causes of Child Mortality in Developing Countries: Evidence from Non-clinical Interventions
by
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
October 2013
30 October 2013 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Children have been at the centre of recent global efforts to improve well-being conditions in developing countries...
Project workshop
Workshop for the @Equal project
Tue, 21 September 2021
Online,
United States
Past event
Seminar
Health, development, and institutional factors: the Mozambique case
On 17 August 2022, the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) organizes the third session of the cycle of debates on institutional development and economic development in Mozambique. In this session, entitled ‘Health...
Wed, 17 August 2022
Online,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Video
Special Session on South Africa 2
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.2
Video
Mobility
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.4
Video
Progress in Data and Measurement
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 5.1
Policy seminar
Policy Seminar - Launch of WHO Bulletin theme issue 'Measuring quality of care'
Wed, 14 June 2017
Salle A, World Health Organization,
20 Avenue Appia,
Geneva,
Switzerland
Past event