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Opinion - UNU-WIDER on the 'Triple Crisis'
Three interconnected crises - of the global financial system, food security and global warming - potentially threaten peace and stability. Multilateral action must be combined with a clearer understanding of how they affect each other and their regional and country level impacts.
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Recovering from the Global Crisis: Towards an Action Plan for Africa and the Least Developed Countries
On 25 June 2009 UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with UNU-ONY, the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) and the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS) organised a side event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to focus on the plight of African and other least developed countries.
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TWFR Article: Falling Inequality in Latin America - Policy Changes and lessons
The World Financial Review featured the article Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010 based on the UNU-WIDER research project The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from the Last Decade and Prospects for the Future, and the recently published UNU-WIDER book edited by Giovanni Andrea Cornia.