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Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...
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...
17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...
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...
Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...
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...
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...
Many countries today experience increasing or persistent income inequality, a major concern for citizens and politicians alike. This concern is...
This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Every single day, approximately 830 women die from causes related to childbirth. Despite considerable advances in maternal health over the last three...
Both health and education are essential for reducing poverty. Unfortunately, the two are often interlinked and in many countries both are severely...
by Angus Deaton Inequalities in income and inequalities in health Global inequality takes many dimensions. Not only is there great inequality across...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Globally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...
30 October 2013 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Children have been at the centre of recent global efforts to improve well-being conditions in developing countries...