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From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...
Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...
Tony Addison It’s now February, and Helsinki remains deep in snow. We had an extended blizzard last weekend, with temperatures hovering around minus...
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...
Alyssa McCluskey, Channing Arndt, and Innocent Matshe In April-May of this year, the AERC and UNU-WIDER offered an online course on climate change...
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...
17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...
Malokele Nanivazo Sexual violence crime (SV) in wartime is not a new phenomenon. Mass rapes have occurred in armed conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo...
It is widely accepted in recent work in economics and political science that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on the provision of public goods...
In a recent article in the International Journal of Educational Development we present the results of a systematic review conducted to identify policy...
Mozambique, in common with many other developing countries, has achieved impressive increases in access to education. Since 2000, the number of...
Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly...
Many countries today experience increasing or persistent income inequality, a major concern for citizens and politicians alike. This concern is...
I recently spoke to Catherine Gladwell, who is the Director and Founder of Refugee Education UK (formerly Refugee Support Network) and one of the...
The negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique range from reduced social interaction to business closures, job losses...
While studies have examined the association in socioeconomic status between parent and offspring, there has been relatively little research on...
At the UNU-WIDER Inequality conference September 2014 we interviewed Murray Leibbrandt, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town on...
Just over a year ago, in March 2014, UNU-WIDER published a report entitled: What do we know about aid as we approach 2015? It notes the many successes...
In this interview Professor Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University, talks about the importance of...
Girls in India face many challenges. From the moment they are conceived, they are less likely to be born as compared to boys. This presence of...
The number of land certification programmes around the world has been growing. In theory, the formalization of land rights should increase land tenure...
by Ravi Kanbur When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it was famously heralded as "the end of history" the end of all "big" debates on the organization of...
Every single day, approximately 830 women die from causes related to childbirth. Despite considerable advances in maternal health over the last three...
Public sector schools operate within the broader context of political systems and the management of school systems can be influenced by political...
Women in most parts of the developing world are under-represented in the workplace and poorly paid. One reason for this is the gender gap in education...
Both health and education are essential for reducing poverty. Unfortunately, the two are often interlinked and in many countries both are severely...
17 April 2013 Minister Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås Economic growth in itself will not end poverty. Stronger policies for fairer distribution are needed in...
17 April 2013Is the focus of aid funds really the poorest countries in the world? Does the international community follow it's best knowledge on aid...
22 August 2013 Roger Williamson Given the high growth rates since 2000 and low labour costs, Africa could develop manufacturing industry, agro...
by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Gautam Hazarika Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s population is currently suffering from one or more forms of...
30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one. June sees us back in...
26 September 2014 Roger Williamson Huge interest in the WIDER Inequality Conference (5-6 September) Inequality is big news. Whether you think Thomas...