Blog
From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...
Blog
Jobs Drive Development: An interview with Martin Rama
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
January 2013
15 January 2013Martin Rama from The World bank discusses the process behind the World Development Report 2013 on jobs, which he directed.He emphasises...
Blog
Supply or demand? Exploring the mechanisms behind the rise of female labour force participation in Mexico
by
Sonia Bhalotra, Manuel Fernández
March 2021
At the global level, gender gaps in labour force participation have narrowed and over half a billion women have joined the workforce in the last 30...
Blog
African Lions - Tapping the potential of Kenya's economic growth
by
Christina Golubski
June 2016
From 2000-2014, like many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya experienced high growth, at an average of 4.37 percent. Unfortunately, the 2007...
Blog
Job Creation and the Business Cycle in Brazil
by
Túlio Cravo
March 2015
What type of business destroys proportionately more jobs during times of economic recessions and hires more in booms? This simple question motivates...
Blog
Development Finance: The Role for Aid in Africa
Aid’s future, its history, and its impact were the topics of a policy workshop held by UNU-WIDER in co-operation with the Embassy of Denmark in Dar es...
Blog
Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8
This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development...
Blog
Out of the Poverty Trap Through Higher Aspirations?
Why does a mother from a poor African village not send her daughter to school, but instead marries her off to an old man as a second or third wife...
Blog
High wage inequality in South Africa – are employers to blame?
by
Shakeba Foster
January 2024
South Africa ranks as the world’s most unequal country by income. This is largely due to high wage inequality, given that wages are the main income...
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms
The 2003 Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University on the topic of ‘Global Labour Standards and Freedom of Choice’, and took place at Ritarihuone in Helsinki on 10 November.
Mon, 10 November 2003
Ritarihuone,
Ritarikatu 1,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Blog
How the World Works: Jobs and Structural Transformation as Keys to Development
by
Roger Williamson
August 2014
27 August 2014 Roger Williamson The themes of the new UNU-WIDER work programme—transformation, inclusion, and sustainability—were the focus of the...
Seminar
The keynote address at the IRSA 16th Annual Conference — Kunal Sen
Kunal Sen is invited to give the Keynote Address at the 2021 Indonesian Regional Science Association's (IRSA) Annual Conference on 12 July. Professor Sen speaks on the main lessons from UNU-WIDER's project on 'The changing nature of work and...
Mon, 12 July 2021
–
Tue, 13 July 2021
Online,
Indonesia
Past event
Presentation
Laban Simbeye on how formal firms in Zambia recovered from the pandemic
The 2022 Jobs & Development Conference The Challenge of Creating Better Jobs in Developing Countries is organised on 14-15 December in Cape Town. Laban Simbeye, researcher from Zambia Revenue Authority, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper...
Wed, 14 December 2022
Cape Town,
South Africa
Past event
Panel discussion
Connecting the productivity challenge with development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wed, 13 March 2024
Raúl Prebisch Hall, ECLAC,
Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura,
Santiago de Chile,
Chile
Past event