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Family structure, education and women’s employment in rural IndiaThis paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India...
non-farm employment Family structure female autonomyVacancies
Web Development Associate GS-6UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong web and systems development skills to join the Knowledge & Information Services Team of the Institute. Closing date: 8 March 2019, 23:59 UTC+2...
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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...
News
Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’
SDGs Transformation InformalitySeminar
Ashwini Deshpande on choice, constraints and cultural norms: understanding factors underlying women's labour force participation in IndiaAshwini Deshpande will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 February 2019. Abstract – Choice, Constraints and Cultural Norms: Understanding Factors Underlying Women's Labour Force Participation in India This paper seeks to understand...
Blog
Can natural resources jump-start industrialization?
At the end of last year, I filmed a lecture that will be part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on industrialization in Africa...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryBlog
Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the way in which we use, share, understand, interpret and present data is more important still...
Government revenue Taxation dataSeminar
Costanza Biavaschi on taking the skill bias out of global migrationCostanza Biavaschi will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 6 February 2019. Abstract – Taking the skill bias out of global migration Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to...
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Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaImplementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you carry out these programmes successfully?...
Conflict management Development Poverty reductionThe WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. At the weekly sessions, early-career and senior researchers present recent and ongoing work related to UNU-WIDER’s current work programme. In...
WIDER Seminar SeriesNews
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...
Working Paper
Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policyIn this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories...
China Inequality Development EconomicsBlog
Research that matters: A report from the stakeholder workshop - 15 November 2018, Pretoria, South Africa
I found myself in the third-floor conference rooms of a Pretoria hotel for a meeting with economists, researchers, and policymakers involved in the SA-TIED programme ...
Economic inequality Data revolution TaxSeminar
Dilip Mookherjee on decentralized targeting of agricultural credit in West Bengal: private vs. political intermediariesDilip Mookherjee will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 27 February 2019. Abstract – Decentralized targeting of agricultural credit in West Bengal: private vs. political intermediaries This paper reports results from a field experiment...
Working Paper
Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation modelIn this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distribution dataCall for papers
WIDER Development Conference in partnership with UNESCAP: Transforming economies – for better jobsUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will organize a three-day conference on transforming...
Presentation
Ministry for Foreign Affairs hosts farewell lecture by Finn Tarp
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The ins and outs of African industrialization: UNU-WIDER provides open access to a wealth of information
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last decade...
Industrialization Poverty JobsConference
Transforming economies - for better jobsUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will organize a three-day conference on transforming...
Working Paper
Welfare dynamics in rural Viet Nam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel dataWhile many studies of welfare dynamics have been conducted using panel data sets with two or three waves, much richer insights can be obtained where more waves are available...
Welfare dynamics Panel survey Panel data analysisBlog
Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day This week I attended the 28 th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all?...
Industrialization structural change Industrial policyBlog
Horizontal inequality: Exploring persistence and changeA considerable body of recent research suggests that inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications...
In 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 AfricaBlog
From PhD Fellow to President: (of Colpensiones, Colombia’s public pension and social security administrator) – Juan Villa
Four years ago, in 2014, Juan Villa spent three months at UNU-WIDER in our PhD Fellowship Programme...
Social protection Public policy UNU-WIDER PhD FellowshipResearch Brief
Research Brief
Project
Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)SA-TIED programme looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in the southern Africa region, through original research conceived and produced in collaboration between United Nations University World...
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Working Paper
Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gasThis paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources...
Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industriesBlog
‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development - Think WIDER ...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Viet NamEthnic inequality remains a persistent challenge for Viet Nam. This paper aims at better understanding this ethnic gap through exploring the formation of risk sharing networks in rural areas...
Risk-sharing network Homophily Ethnic inequality