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Chairperson of the WIDER Board writes on the future role of the World BankRavi Kanbur, Chairperson of the WIDER board and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, argues that the World Bank needs to transform its role on the world stage in a new vox.eu column.
WIDER Board World BankIn the media
Recent UNU-WIDER study on extractive dependency makes the headlinesA recent WIDER Working Paper by Alan Roe and Samantha Dodd received coverage in the Nambia Economist. The paper, published as part of the UNU-WIDER project Extractives for Development, draws together statistical information on extractive dependency...
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Finn Tarp opens Finnish Model UN conferenceUNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp opened Finland's only university-level Model UN conference on 5 April 2017 in Helsinki. He spoke to delegates about UNU-WIDER's ongoing work on transformation, inclusion, and sustainability, the Sustainable...
SDG EnvironmentSeminar
Towards a new consensus on the principles of policy-making for the contemporary world
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Government officials and researchers in Ecuador gather for ECUAMOD trainingHow does raising income tax affect government revenue? What are the costs and benefits of implementing a state pension? Tax and benefit microsimulation is a useful technique for determining how policy changes affect the distribution of income and...
Microsimulation modelling EcuadorIn the media
Study on global tax avoidance garners worldwide attentionA new WIDER Working Paper has brought attention around the world to government revenue loss from tax avoidance. The study finds that, globally, low- and lower middle-income countries are hit the hardest; in terms of regions, losses are most intense...
Tax evasion Profit shiftingPolicy seminar
Industrialization in Africa
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The Stockholm Statement cautions against ‘Untenable Inequality’The Chinese financial news portal Caixin reports on the principles being drawn in the Stockholm Statement. It reminds that while countries had made rapid strides in development, they have left inequalities in their wake.
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Stockholm Statement mentioned as an example of current economic policy thinkingAn opinion piece published in the India’s e-paper LiveMint.com presents two examples of current economic policy thinking that have come out of the global recovery from the North Atlantic financial crisis of 2008. The article refers to the...
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Stockholm Statement cited as evidence of shifts in economic thinkingThe Guardian journalist Greg Jericho has released a new piece on environmental sustainability in which he argues that, in Australia, economics and politics doesn’t cope well with the issue of climate change.
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The Stockholm Statement gets mentioned in The GuardianFormer World Bank Chief Economist, Kaushik Basu, recently gave a public lecture on the 'Challenges for the global economy: the great recession and the fault lines' at the Monash Business School in Melbourne, Australia.
Inclusive growth Stockholm Statement Economic growthConference
Growth and development policy – new data, new approaches, and new evidenceEconomies in the southern Africa region face thorny challenges when it comes to the transformation of their economies, job creation, and the need to share the benefits of growth. For the past three years, more than 100 researchers have engaged in a...
Results Meeting
Transformation for growth, employment and poverty reductionThis event, held in partnership with with REPOA, closes out our project on Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa . The conference builds on the research from the collaborative project between REPOA and UNU-WIDER intended to examine...
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Third voice of social sciences international conferenceThe University of Dar es Salaam organized on 24-25 November 2016 a two-day conference with the theme 'Industrialization and social transformation: what is the role of social sciences?'
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Blog post on poverty in Mozambique grabs the attention of Mail & Guardian AfricaThe release of the Mozambique’s Fourth Poverty Assessment in late October in Maputo has brought good news to Mozambique. Despite recent economic and political challenges, the findings of the report show significant gains in the fight to reduce...
Poverty Inequality MozambiquePress release
Trickle-down economics is not a tenable premise for development, leading economists argue in Stockholm StatementThirteen of the world's leading development economists* — including four former Chief economists of the World Bank and 10 prominent members of the UNU-WIDER global network — have released the Stockholm Statement, in which they summarize what they...
New Directions in Development Economics