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From newsletter to blog - welcome to the new WIDERAngle
By now you have probably seen the exciting revamp of our website. These changes are not cosmetic. They represent a fundamental rebuilding of our web...
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Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution
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Kyle McNabb
June 2017
At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to...
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Updated Government Revenue Dataset provides new insights into developing country tax collection trends
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Kyle McNabb
October 2017
The increasing focus on domestic resource mobilization in developing countries means that, for researchers and policy makers, access to accurate and...
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Domestic revenue mobilization and the role of data
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James Stewart
October 2017
Government revenues are central to funding public expenditures in all countries. Increasingly, developing countries must look to raise domestic...
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Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
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Kyle McNabb
January 2019
Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the...
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Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India
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Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal, Divya Tuteja
January 2019
Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you...
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Urban poverty: cities, slums, and the need for policy action
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Emily Rains, Anirudh Krishna
October 2022
Developing countries will be predominantly urban by 2030. While urbanization is historically associated with development and broad-based social...
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Sales recovered faster from the pandemic than employment: Evidence from tax administrative and survey data in Zambia
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Aliisa Koivisto, Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Muhammad Malik, Mashekwa Maboshe
August 2022
Like most other countries, the government of Zambia introduced restrictions to control COVID-19, which considerably curtailed normal economic activity...
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Responding to crises: What can we do? What’s next?
Although sometimes over used, the word 'crisis' accurately describes many challenges of today's world, such as climage change, war and refugees...
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Nobel Peace Prize acknowledges link between preventing hunger and promoting peace
Professor Patricia Justino is a leading expert on the links between political violence and economic development. Her work has greatly expanded...
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Data for better tax policy analysis: Introducing the latest version of the Government Revenue Dataset
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Kyle McNabb
February 2021
Thanks to the updated version of the Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) we are now able to gain a clear picture of tax and other revenue trends in over...
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Viet Nam
Theme: Transformation
This project responds to the SDG’s call for a strengthening of data collection and capacity-building in Member States. Timely and better disaggregated, country level data aids the search for an evidence-based course to realizing economic...
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Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approaches
Theme: Transformation
This project uses UNU-WIDER’s high level of convening power – its ability to mobilize senior figures in the development policy debate from different paradigms – and its ability to stand aside from the fashions and pressures of the academy, to bring...
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Africa's emerging middle-class
Theme: 2012-13
Sub-Saharan Africa currently is facing a range of demographic and socioeconomic shifts that hold important implications for both the region’s economic and political development. One of these shifts has been the emergence of a sizeable and dynamic...