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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.

Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.

Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p

United Nations University Annual Report 2017

UNU Annual Report 2017

Explore the “who” and “what” of UNU’s work in 2017 and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere

Research and policy briefs

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Research Brief

Potential benefits and pitfalls of extractives in Mozambique: lessons from international experience

Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its extractive industries...

Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordination

News

UNU-WIDER shortlisted for the Prospect Think Tank Awards 2018

UNU-WIDER has been shortlisted for the Prospect Magazine’s Think Tank Awards 2018 . The Institute is ranked in the category of international economic & financial think tanks based on the research on industrial policy, including the project...

Think tanks Industrial policy

Journal Special Issue

Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

The articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3...

Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rights

Book

Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered

Early view: When published this book will become Open Access. By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa...

industry Growth Investment

Conference

Think development – Think WIDER

For more than 30 years, UNU-WIDER has been associated with some of the most advanced thinking in development economics. Since the Institute’s start in 1985, UNU-WIDER has undertaken research on all the principal themes of development economics. It...

13 September 2018 08:30 – 15 September 2018 18:30

Marina Congress Center (MCC), Katajanokanlaituri 6, 00160 Helsinki, Finland

Open for registration

Journal Article

A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In current practice, progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index...

first-order dominance Sub-Saharan Africa demographic and health survey

Blog

Mozambique: Improving our understanding of the potential of manufacturing

by Vincenzo Salvucci
June 2018

Mozambique’s manufacturing industry is facing many challenges. Nevertheless, we should not underestimate its linkages to the rest of the economy and its potential in terms of job creation and structural transformation...

Manufacturing firms Manufacturing Manufacturing industries

Book

Towards Gender Equity in Development

Early view: When published this book will become Open Access. As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy...

Gender Equality Discrimination

Blog

Lessons from the resettlement of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Vietnamese forced migrants in Germany

by Phi Hong Su
June 2018

Hiếu (pseudonym) embodies the ‘good refugee’ story. In 1979, he fled Vietnam by boat and eventually resettled in the Federal Republic of (West) Germany, as did many others ...

Integration International migration Refugees

Blog

Young Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the UK: Does more education mean better futures?

by Catherine Gladwell
June 2018

Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly acquired university student card...

Migration Refugees Youth

Blog

Successfully integrating refugee populations: What can we learn from the experience of Vietnamese Americans?

by Carl L. Bankston
June 2018

Policy makers should see integration and upward mobility, and not simply placement and survival, as goals of resettlement of refugees...

Migration Refugees Integration

Blog

Obstacles for Mozambique’s manufacturing firms amplified by macroeconomic disturbances

by Peter Fisker
June 2018

Mozambique has been facing macroeconomic difficulties since 2015. This has amplified the obstacles for micro, small and medium-sized manufacturing firms, but the actual problems lie deeper ...

Manufacturing firms Structural transformation Macroeconomic policy

Panel discussion

Public services at grassroots level in Africa [in Finnish]

26 May 2018

Taiga-lava (Kansallisteatterin lavaklubi), Läntinen Teatterikuja 1, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

Project

WIID - World Income Inequality Database

World Income Inequality Database (WIID), collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. WIID provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available and can be...

Policy seminar

UNU-WIDER at the World Village Festival

UNU-WIDER, with other UN agencies and affiliates, is present at the World Village Festival 2018. The festival takes place 26-27 May 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.

26 May 2018 – 27 May 2018

UN Village/YK-Kylä, Railway Square, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

UNU-WIDER, the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa (NT), and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) invite proposals from qualified researchers for high quality economic and/or political economy analysis in any of the five focus...

Closing date: 25 May 2018