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New book from Oxford University Press looks at how to make extractive industries sustainable and inclusive
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Oxford Policy Management Limited
September 2018
Originally posted by Oxford Policy Management The extractives sector, and the way it works, continues to change rapidly and its importance to many...
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Not too long and not too short: Introducing the new UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press series in Development Economics
Simon Kuznets’ pipe dream was to have economic inequality data that rarely existed when he was writing. What are the pipe dreams of today’s...
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
Seminar
Public Forum: Mozambique as a natural gas exporter - Lessons from the past experiences
Wed, 28 November 2018
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence ,
Marginal Avenue, 141,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Conference
Inclusive Growth in Mozambique: Annual Conference
Tue, 27 November 2018
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence ,
Marginal Avenue, 141,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Lecture
Economic development in Asia: Learning from a half-century of transformations
Wed, 13 November 2019
IIES, A822,
Universitetsvägen 10, 114 18 ,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Seminar
Asia's remarkable transformation and rise: lessons for latecomers to, and laggards in, development
On 13 November, Professor Deepak Nayyar will deliver a lecture at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) based on his newly released book, Resurgent Asia. Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama in 1968, to...
Thu, 14 November 2019
Sida ,
Valhallavägen 199 ,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Presentation
Resurgent Asia book tour
Fri, 24 January 2020
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Thu, 5 March 2020
Past event
Blog
35 years of research for change: Bringing inequality to the fore (1998-2020)
UNU-WIDER released the world’s first estimates of the global wealth distribution in 2007 – one result of a 2004–05 project, ‘Personal Assets from a...
Blog
Climate resilience and sustainable sovereign debt
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Leora Klapper
December 2022
2022 is already a record-breaker in the number of climate change-related events, and developing countries must now pay for the repairs and remediation...
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Social protection at a crossroad
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Annalena Oppel
August 2021
How can we ensure a resilient and inclusive recovery from COVID-19? How can we hold on to the target of eradicating poverty and hunger by 2030, with...
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Climate Change and Development Policy: Competing Aims?
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Yongfu Huang
September 2012
Yongfu Huang The climate change crisis and development needs of the world's poor require us to acknowledge the necessity and urgency for both...
Blog
Paralyzing debt burden threatens Africa’s largest economy
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Geoffrey Adonu
June 2023
Apart from a ‘badly flawed’ national election, insecurity, and mass exodus of its young talents to the Global North (locally known as Japa), a...
Blog
How India’s economy has fared under ten years of Narendra Modi
More than 960 million Indians will head to the polls in the world’s biggest election between April 19 and early June. The ruling Bharatiya Janata...
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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...
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Migrant workers in the Covid-19 pandemic
Millions of migrant workers around the world provide valuable income for their families and contribute more broadly to the economies of both their...
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After the war – thinking about reconstruction in Ukraine
Russia’s military involvement in Ukraine began in March 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, but it wasn’t until February 2022 that Russia shocked the...
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Building on success in development aid
In academic discourse, it has become almost ritualistic to begin a piece on foreign aid by highlighting the sharp controversies over its effectiveness...
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Looking ahead to COP26
The long-awaited COP26 in Glasgow is about to start. Billed as the most important COP to date, it is widely seen as a last chance to avoid a global...
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Why the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be Good for Exporters
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Alisa DiCaprio
August 2012
Alisa DiCaprio The global arms trade is a lucrative business. In 2010, total arms transfers were estimated at US$40 billion. Despite the global...
Blog
Advancing social mobility research: Where to start
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Patrizio Piraino
February 2022
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges. That is why the most recent Nobel Prize in...
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High wage inequality in South Africa – are employers to blame?
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Shakeba Foster
January 2024
South Africa ranks as the world’s most unequal country by income. This is largely due to high wage inequality, given that wages are the main income...
Blog
The Chilean Development Model and the Limits of Neoliberal Economics
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Andrés Solimano
May 2012
Andrés Solimano Chile underwent a free market revolution initiated by the Pinochet regime in the 1970s and 1980s. A very similar model, with some...
Blog
Is vocational education the fast track to employment in Mozambique?
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Anna Schnupp
May 2020
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is often put forward as the solution to youth unemployment — but to prove its worth, better...
Blog
Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries fared
The number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis. The...
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Ukraine: War, energy, and net zero
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Alan R. Roe
May 2022
Just over seven months ago the United Nations convened its 26th Climate Change Conference (COP-26) in Glasgow, with the world nervously emerging from...
Blog
The richer your neighbours, the more you borrow – the case of South Africa
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Shakeba Foster
April 2023
Research on how income inequality affects borrowing behaviour reignited after the 2008 global recession. One prevailing theory is that rising income...
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From summits to solutions: what success means at COP26
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Mahmoud Mohieldin
October 2021
At the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders discussed the need to scale-up ambition to address key global challenges...
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Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum
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Roger Williamson
September 2015
The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt. Not so however—it was Trade...
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Youth Unemployment in the Arab World: What Do We know? What is the Way Forward?
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Imed Drine
June 2012
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
Blog
Seeking asylum from nowhere— how origin shapes the context of reception
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Sarah Dean, Phi Hong Su
May 2022
Afghanistan is the world’s newest nowhere, a predicament that will shape the evacuation and resettlement prospects for millions of people for the...
Blog
Mozambique's difficult decade: Three lessons to inform next steps
At the start of the last decade, Mozambique’s prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating...