UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to take the lead of the Information Services Team of the Institute and has backstopping and quality assurance skills on all IT related activities. Closing date: 6...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong skills and expertise in the collection, cleansing, analysis and management of large databases to acquire regularly the underlying country-level data for the WIID and GRD databases, and...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to administrate the databases (WIID and GRD) hosted at UNU-WIDER to help with further developments of these databases, and to support and/or conduct research on...
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