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Urban poverty: cities, slums, and the need for policy actionDeveloping countries will be predominantly urban by 2030. While urbanization is historically associated with development and broad-based social...
Developing countries will be predominantly urban by 2030. While urbanization is historically associated with development and broad-based social...
For several decades, UNU-WIDER has actively worked on pathfinding and groundbreaking research on inequalities. We host one of the most extensive...
Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the...
In recent decades, India has experienced rapid economic growth alongside radical affirmative action programs enacted since independence. This column...
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges. That is why the most recent Nobel Prize in...
While studies have examined the association in socioeconomic status between parent and offspring, there has been relatively little research on...
Globally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...
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...
The famous 1920s book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the classic analogy for the American dream of meritocracy —that any person can...