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UNU-WIDER Director-Designate namedUNU-WIDER is pleased to announce that, following a highly successful 10 years under the leadership of Professor Finn Tarp, the Institute’s next director has been named. Professor Kunal Sen will join the Institute as Director-Designate on 1...
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UNU-WIDER expertise part of new UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
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Rachel Gisselquist gives TEDx talk on rethinking the diversity debate
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New collaborative programme focusing on economic transformation and inequality launched with South African government and other regional organizations
Structural economic transformation Economic inequality Employment and Industry In the media
Conference on poverty and inequality grabs attention of local media in MozambiqueThe conference on poverty and inequality in Mozambique, part of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique project, took place at the end of November in Maputo, drawing interest from local policymakers, academics, and development practitioners – in...
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Tony Addison speaks on extractives industries and development during Mozambican MPs’ visit to Finnish parliamentUNU-WIDER Chief Economist-Deputy Director, Tony Addison , presented on the extractives industries and development during the exchange visit of the 5th Commission of the Parliament of Mozambique to Finland on 14 November 2017. Tony Addison presenting...
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Girls’ education research and policy symposium: Reaching the most marginalizedEach year the Center for Universal Education at Brookings (CUE) convenes policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders in the girls’ education arena to discuss the most pressing issues as identified by the Echidna Global Scholars , a group of...
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WIDER Seminar Series highlights latest findings on development economicsThe weekly seminars held in Helsinki, open to all working on or interested in development, continue in November 2017.
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Professor Ashwini Deshpande writes opinion piece on discrimination in Indian universitiesAshwini Deshpande has written an opinion piece based on her recent WIDER Working Paper in the Indian independent journalism site The Wire. She writes about the widespread prevalence of discriminatory attitudes towards quota students in India that...
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Smriti Sharma writes opinion piece on the role of education for Dalit children in IndiaUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Smriti Sharma has penned an opinion piece in Women and Girls, a news platform focused on issues faced by female populations in the developing world. She writes about the importance of reducing the educational disadvantage...
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The Economist draws on UNU-WIDER work for article on Africa’s development modelAn article published in The Economist has drawn on the UNU-WIDER project Industries without smokestacks to discuss why Africa’s development model puzzles economists. The article argues that Africa has not followed the patterns of structural...
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UNU-WIDER and partners launch the ETMOD microsimulation tool in Addis AbabaIn early July over 30 government officials and researchers from Ethiopia gathered for the launch and first training workshop of the Ethiopian tax and benefit microsimulation – ETMOD. Tax-benefit microsimulation models — which combine...
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Survey gets attention during the launch of Mozambique's IV Labour Market Informative BulletinA news article in the Jornal A Verdade has highlighted the Inclusive growth in Mozambique project's labour market survey , which will shed light on the transition from education to employment of Mozambican university students. Extract from the...
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UNU-WIDER welcomed Finnish UN field service groupThe Finnish United Nations field service contingent visited UNU-WIDER in July as part of their yearly get-together, organized this year in Helsinki. The purpose of the visit was to learn about the Institute and its work in developing contexts, where...