Blog
From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...
Blog
Poverty measurements for policy makers
by
Vincenzo Salvucci
May 2019
In order to reduce poverty you must be able to measure it. It sounds so obvious, but in my experience policy makers think that measuring poverty is...
Presentation
Launch of the special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality: ‘Measuring poverty over time’
The conceptualization and measurement of poverty has been the subject of intense study for more than a century. The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 gave additional stimulus to these longstanding efforts, this time at the...
Thu, 14 June 2012
World Bank,
Washington, D.C.,
United States
Past event
Blog
Growth Yes, but where’s the Transformation and Inclusion?
by
Roger Williamson
March 2014
26 March 2014 Roger Williamson Africa is growing, with The Economist noting that 6 out of 10 of the world’s fastest growing economies for 2000-10 were...
Policy seminar
Rising income inequality: trends - and measures to prevent and reverse it
ILO, UNCTAD, and UNU-WIDER invite interested professionals to the policy seminar on ‘Rising income inequality: trends, and measures to prevent and reverse it’. The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income...
Thu, 23 October 2014
Room IX, International Labour Organization,
Route des Morillons 4,
Geneva,
Switzerland
Past event