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Smriti Sharma writes opinion piece on the role of education for Dalit children in IndiaUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Smriti Sharma has penned an opinion piece in Women and Girls, a news platform focused on issues faced by female populations in the developing world. She writes about the importance of reducing the educational disadvantage...
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The Economist draws on UNU-WIDER work for article on Africa’s development modelAn article published in The Economist has drawn on the UNU-WIDER project Industries without smokestacks to discuss why Africa’s development model puzzles economists. The article argues that Africa has not followed the patterns of structural...
News
UNU-WIDER and partners launch the ETMOD microsimulation tool in Addis AbabaIn early July over 30 government officials and researchers from Ethiopia gathered for the launch and first training workshop of the Ethiopian tax and benefit microsimulation – ETMOD. Tax-benefit microsimulation models — which combine...
News
UNU-WIDER welcomed Finnish UN field service groupThe Finnish United Nations field service contingent visited UNU-WIDER in July as part of their yearly get-together, organized this year in Helsinki. The purpose of the visit was to learn about the Institute and its work in developing contexts, where...
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Tax avoidance study used as an argument in favor of Lesotho’s growth and stabilityThe Kingdom of Lesotho is classified by the UN as one of the least developed countries in the world. It is entirely reliant on South Africa for all imports and exports, while a few commodities help supplement its income. Lesotho has suffered...
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Nigerian daily business paper draws on the WIIDAn editorial published in Business Day, a daily business newspaper based in Lagos, has drawn on the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) to point to Nigeria’s growing inequality. The piece uses the database along with measures from the...
Lecture
Public Economics Winter School 2017The University of Pretoria will hold from 3-7 July 2017 the second Winter School – one of the key events in the public economics capacity building initiative managed by GTAC on behalf of the National Treasury.
News
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...
News
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
News
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...