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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 Fellowship
Book Chapter
Widening the options: Implications for public policy

From the book: Industries without Smokestacks

African development Public policy industry
Working Paper
Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis

Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings...

Inequality Anti-discrimination measures Poverty
Presentation
New Directions for Social Policy – towards socially sustainable development

Plenary Panel Presentation: Is Social Protection Effective in Tackling Inequality in Developing Countries? by Miguel Niño-Zarazúa , Research Fellow The Global Social Policy Forum provides a platform for discussion and dissemination of...

4 November 2013
Domus, Mechelinia-hall, Hietaniemenkatu 14, Helsinki, Finland
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Cooperatives in Finland

The importance of Cooperatives in Finland Why Cooperatives? Challenges for the promotion of this enterprise type in a global world

2 May 2012
UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
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African development - myths and realities

Theme: 2008-09

Existing research on Africa has produced a seemingly endless list of reasons why African growth and poverty reduction record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This project looks at the reasons put forward for Africa...

Africa's Economic Development African development Myth
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