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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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New updates to the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database ― widely known by its acronym, WIID ― provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available. It presents detailed information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
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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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Updated Version of World Income Inequality Database now Freely Downloadable
The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores data on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition 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.
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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.
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Financial Reforms and Falling Inequality in Latin America, 2002-12: Are They Connected?
Read the blog post in rightingfinance.org by Giovanni Andrea Cornia editor of the UNU-WIDER book volume Falling inequality in Latin America: Policy changes and lessons.
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Stephen Jenkins on the World Income Inequality Database
The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality has commissioned a series of papers appraising databases containing information about inequality in different countries and globally.These evaluations are forthcoming in a special issue of The Journal of Economic Inequality.