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Migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy

WIDER Development Conference jointly organized with ARUA, 5-6 October 2017, in Accra, Ghana

Public economics for development

This WIDER Development Conference focuses on the lessons from modern public and development economics which can guide policy makers to reform tax and public provision systems.

Tax and development - What can we learn from the Finnish experience?

This seminar, held on July 7 in Maputo, will examine the relevance of the Finnish development experience from the Mozambican perspective.

Policy brief: Tracking rural households through structural transformation

The case of Viet Nam

Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries

This new Open Access book provides detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys that have been ongoing for more than three decades.

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10 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Working Paper

Mining’s contribution to low- and middle-income economies

In several low- and middle-income countries with important extractive sectors, gross national income has developed favourably. Africa has benefitted most, particularly West Africa...

Mining Development Tax revenue

Book

Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

Economic growth Employment Poverty

Working Paper

The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Viet Nam’s micro, small, and medium enterprises

Very little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation...

Minimum wage Employment Wages

Research uptake

Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa

Learning to compete (L2C) is collaborative research project between UNU-WIDER, the African Development Bank, and the Brookings Institution. The project aims to answer the question: why is there so little industry in Africa? Industry—including modern...

Trade Competitiveness Industrial policy

News

Aid in a Post-2015 World

Now out the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme summary which outlines 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.

Foreign aid Social sectors Gender equality

Project

Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa

Theme: Transformation

Trade Competitiveness Industrial policy

Workshop

Unemployment in Tunisia: What do we know? Where do we go?

The African Development Bank , the African Development Institute and UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, organize a workshop on the subject...

10 April 2012

African Development Bank Group, Tunis, Tunisia

Past event