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Research on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in West Africa in the newsOn 18 January, Wisdom Akpalu , UNU-WIDER Research Fellow based in Ghana, co-chaired a seminar organised by the University of Ghana’s Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) on illicit trade in marine resources of West Africa...
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Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme interviewed in Dimensions magazineUNU-WIDER research fellow Vincenzo Salvucci, and Finório Castigo, a specialist from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, were interviewed by Dimensions magazine on multidimensional poverty measurement. The article was published...
Mozambique Multidimensional poverty measurement PovertyNews
Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme contribute to the book Challenges of Mozambique 2018The 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...
Mozambique Measurement (Poverty) PovertyNews
Director Kunal Sen contributes to blog on taxation in developing countriesThe capability to raise revenues from taxes – often called fiscal capacity – is a crucial aspect for the functioning of every state, particularly in developing countries. They need higher revenues to invest in a number of economic and...
Taxation SDGs Tax revenueBlog
Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. In other words, wages have decreased compared with other sources of income such as capital income...
Income inequality Earnings inequality WagesIn the media
SA-TIED researcher interviewed on tax haven researchSA-TIED researcher, Ludvig Wier, has featured in multiple South African news outlets explaining new research findings from the programme. Wier was invited to speak to anchors from South Africa’s national news channels, SABC and eNCA . He was...
Profit shifting Multinational firms South AfricaIn the media
SA-TIED research on profit shifting gets national attention in South Africa
Profit shifting corporate income tax Multinational firms In the media
UNU-WIDER Lessons on Development videos feature on VoxEU.orgOver the last decade, UNU-WIDER has produced over 2000 publications across a range of topics including poverty, inequality, economic transformation, development finance, climate change, gender and food security. In 2018 we produced a series of...
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Events of the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme catch the attention of national mediaThe Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme ended the year with two major events that were reported by the local media in Mozambique. On 27 November our programme held its annual conference in Maputo. With both local and international speakers, the...
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Transforming economies, states, and societies – building evidence for achieving the SDGs
I am delighted to take the helm at UNU-WIDER, an institution which has been associated with some of the most advanced thinking in development economics...
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Gas revenues will come and go in Mozambique – now is the time to think how to use them wisely
Mozambique is still an agriculture-based economy. Huge offshore gas fields have been discovered in the country and plans for gas projects are in the process. However, one day the gas explorations will come to an end...
Inclusive growth Extractives MozambiqueNews
New data on income inequality – WIID4 releasedThe UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database ― widely known by its acronym WIID ― presents information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. The WIID provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality...
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UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
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UNU-WIDER findings on the influence of female elected officials on economic performance continues to make headlinesReporting on UNU-WIDER research published in the working paper ‘ Women legislators and economic performance ’, news outlets The Quint , ThePrint.in , , IndiaSpend , and The Diplomat have published articles discussing the impact of women...
Gender Politics Economic growthNews
UNU-WIDER welcomes new board membersUNU-WIDER is pleased to announce that Professors Ann E. Harrison , Justin Yifu Lin , and Benno Ndulu will join the WIDER Board in January 2019. All three new board members are prominent development economists who have worked closely with UNU-WIDER...
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UNU-WIDER congratulates the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on its inaugurationThe Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (GSE) was inaugurated on 24 October at an opening ceremony that took place at the University of Helsinki. The goal of the new school is to strengthen and broaden the field of economic research in Finland. As...
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