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Dr Pia Rattenhuber on inequality in crises — an interviewHow do crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic influence inequality and the other way around? This year’s UN Day Dresden put a spotlight on “ Inequalities in Crises ”...
Inequality COVID-19 CrisisNews
Understanding taxpayer behaviour better – New data research collaboration in Zambia
Taxation Tax administration data Zambia Presentation
Pia Rattenhuber's keynote speech at UNU-FLORES United Nations Day 2021 commemorative eventUnited Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and Resources ( UNU-FLORES ) organizes a commemorative event in Dresden on the occasion of the UN day 2021. The topic of the event is Inequalities in crises. UNU-WIDER...
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Press Release: New UN study reveals limited impact of tax and social protection policies in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Africa SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Blog
I was a visiting PhD fellow at UNU-WIDER — this is my experience
Virgi Agita Sari joined UNU-WIDER as a visiting PhD fellow in the summer of 2017. Coming from Indonesia, Virgi joined five other fellows from across the globe...
UNU-WIDER PhD Fellowship Capacity development Capacity buildingBlog
COVID-19 and the Global South — From crisis response to sustainable development
Around the world, the pandemic, and the measures taken to address it, have had far reaching effects on poverty, inequality, and governance...
COVID-19 WIDER Development ConferenceImpact
WIID – a main source to monitor progress on SDG10 in the Sustainable Development Outlook 2021The World Income Inequality Database (WIID), hosted by UNU-WIDER, is cited in the Sustainable Development Outlook 2021: From Anguish to Determination as a main source of data on progress achieved worldwide towards reducing income inequality.
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Several UNU-WIDER research projects featured in the mediaSeveral projects from UNU-WIDER’s core work programme on Transforming economies, states, and societies are referenced in recent media. The citations of UNU-WIDER’s ongoing research demonstrate that the institute is a go-to source for new...
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Kunal Sen at the high-level LDC regional review meetingUNU-WIDER director Kunal Sen has been invited to contribute as a panelist to the High-level Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting on the Istanbul Programme of Action in Preparation for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed...
Least Developed Countries Sustainable development COVID-19News
Building up fair taxation – New data research collaboration in Tanzania
Taxation Tanzania Administrative capacity News
New release of the Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) covers up to 40 years of tax and revenue data
GRD Government revenue Database In the media
Ending the COVID-19 vaccine apartheid - WIDER webinar speaker interviewed for a Finnish development news portalJayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Jawaharlal Nehru University gave a presentation on vaccine inequality at the WIDER webinar series in June 2021, and was interviewed for an article published on the Finnish...
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Media on the effect of COVID-19 to the extreme poor with data from UNU-WIDERThe global economy might be showing signs of recovering from the pandemic, but the impacts have been worst felt by the most vulnerable and recovery will be slow. In a feature story by local Finnish news service Yle, UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen ,...
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Development Today highlights new UNU-WIDER guidebookUNU-WIDER policy guidebook 'Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states' published earlier this month has been featured in Development Today.
Fragile statesNews
Ministry of Labour and Social Security launches IGM report on school-to-work transition of TVET students in MozambiqueOn 24 June 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Mozambique (MITSS) launched the final report of the survey on the School-to-Work Transition of Technical and Vocational Training Graduates in Mozambique . The report analyses the...