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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

This new Open Access book provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics. Based on fifteen years of continued data collection and research efforts it brings together nine up-to-date studies on... read more

Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)

The SA-TIED programme looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in the southern Africa region.

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Inequality, good governance, and endemic corruption

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

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state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance management

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Governance Poverty Pro-poor

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Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South: Introduction and Overview

Part of Journal Special Issue Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South

Governance Migration policy Migration

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Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South

Building knowledge about migration governance and policy in the Global South is a priority for research and policy...

Migration Migration policy Governance

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

This article is currently available for early online view. While it is recognised that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, their origins and what explains their cross-country differences are not well understood...

state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance management

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Inequality, good governance, and endemic corruption

This article is currently available for early online view. Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption?...

Corruption Tax administration data Governance

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What Does the Evidence Tell Us about ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ in Development Assistance?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

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What does the evidence tell us about ‘thinking and working politically’ in development assistance?

This paper critically reviews evidence on ‘thinking and working politically’ in development...

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Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust

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Governance Trust Economic inequality

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects...

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Will COVID-19 lead to half a billion more people living in poverty in developing countries?

Andy Sumner, Chris Hoy, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez provide new estimates of the impact of the pandemic on global poverty.

Support new COVID-19 research - take the survey today

UNU-WIDER has partnered up with a team of international researchers from across four institutes on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic consequences.

UNU-WIDER's operations continue during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Read more about how we are working through the coming month and what activities are paused or postponed

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

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.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

This new Open Access book provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics. Based on fifteen years of continued data collection and research efforts it brings together nine up-to-date studies on... read more

Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)

The SA-TIED programme looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in the southern Africa region.

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

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