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Press release - AL20
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) will host the WIDER Annual Lecture 20 at the Stockholm School of Economics on 23 March 2016. The lecture will be delivered by Martin Ravallion, a leading economist in the study of poverty and policies for fighting it.
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Webcast - AL20
View the WIDER Annual Lecture by Martin Ravallion on Direct interventions against poverty in poor places.
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New open access book - Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
On 14 April 2016 Oxford University Press (OUP) published UNU-WIDER’s first open access book, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp.
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Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme contribute to the book Challenges of Mozambique 2018
The Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE) launched the ninth edition of the book Desafios para Moçambique 2018 (Challenges of Mozambique 2018) on 8 November 2018 in Maputo, Mozambique. The book has 18 chapters divided into four parts...
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UNU-WIDER alum Nanak Kakwani releases a new book on poverty and inequality
Professor Nanak Kakwani is one of UNU-WIDER's first research fellows. Joining the institute in 1986, he is the author of the second WIDER Working Paper ever published. The first is Food, Economics, and Entitlements by UNU-WIDER founder and Nobel...
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Opening and key note
Finn Tarp opens the UNU-WIDER conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies, followed by the key note from the Marcelo Côrtes Neri, Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil, on inequality in Brazil.
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The Poorest and Most Excluded
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.3
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Theoretical Approaches
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.4
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Behavioural Foundations
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.4
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Special Session on South Africa 2
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.2
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Finn Tarp Moderates Public Meeting on Nordic Development Cooperation
The Finnish Minister for International Development Pekka Haavisto invited his Nordic colleagues to Helsinki to discuss how to enhance cooperation on development policy issues.