Working Paper
PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico
This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform’s objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the...
Working Paper
The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States
This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most...
Panel discussion
Launch of the UNDP Human Development Report 2019
13 December 2019
Think Corner / Tiedekulma,
Yliopistonkatu 4,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy
The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...
6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters,
Valhallavägen 199,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at panel on ‘Human insecurity as a threat to human development’ at the UNDP Virtual Human Development Symposium
The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Office of the Human Development Report will host a virtual symposium over four days from 8-11 June on ‘A New Generation of Human Security’. Through a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions...
Presentation
UNU-WIDER shares research results at Aarhus University workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development
UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist presents at the workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development organized by the Aarhus University Department of Political Science. Her presentation is of UNU-WIDER's new Affirmative Action...
25 May 2023
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26 May 2023
Aarhus University Department of Political Science,
Nordre Ringgade 1,
Aarhus,
Denmark
Past event
Presentation
Presentation to the Agence Française de Développement
Lead researchers from UNU-WIDER's Assessment of potential distributional impacts of four development programmes in Benin, Djibouti-Ethiopia, Uganda, and Viet Nam project present the research results to officials at the Agence Française de...
14 September 2023
Agence Française de Développement, Headquarters,
5 rue Roland Barthes,
Paris,
France
Past event