Blog
Report from the WIDER Development Conference on reducing inequality
For several decades, UNU-WIDER has actively worked on pathfinding and groundbreaking research on inequalities. We host one of the most extensive...
Blog
Reducing inequality — the great challenge of our time
by
Carlos Gradín
October 2022
Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the...
Blog
From the editor's desk: Focus on data
This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation...
Blog
'Love thy neighbour'?: Evidence from a randomized neighbourhood relocation policy in India
by
Shreya Bhattacharya
April 2021
Caste in India plays an instrumental role in determining access to education, jobs, public spaces, and social networks. For instance, despite state...
Blog
WDR 2017 does not disappoint: Four implications for work in development
As a political scientist specializing in the comparative politics of development, including particular attention to issues of governance and democracy...
Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy
The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...
Thu, 6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters,
Valhallavägen 199,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at panel on ‘Human insecurity as a threat to human development’ at the UNDP Virtual Human Development Symposium
The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Office of the Human Development Report will host a virtual symposium over four days from 8-11 June on ‘A New Generation of Human Security’. Through a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions...
Thu, 10 June 2021
Past event
Seminar
Who is being left behind? Closing the horizontal inequality gap
On Monday 17 May Rachel Gisselquist will join the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Seminar Series as discussant in their event on closing the horizontal inequality gap. Find more UNU-WIDER research on horizontal ineqality here...
Mon, 17 May 2021
Online,
United Kingdom
Past event
Panel discussion
Addressing group-based inequalities presents at the APSA 2022 annual meeting
On 17 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Addressing ethnic inequality: Experiences of reform. The panel, chaired by UNU-WIDER Senior...
Tue, 6 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal ,
Montreal,
Canada
Past event
Conference
Reducing inequality – the great challenge of our time
Wed, 5 October 2022
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Fri, 7 October 2022
Universidad de los Andes,
Carrera 1, Calle 18a,
Bogotá,
Colombia
Past event