UNU-WIDER has been shortlisted for the Prospect Magazine’s Think Tank Awards 2018. The Institute is ranked in the category of international economic & financial think tanks based on the research on industrial policy, including the project The...
Traditional law and economics, often referred to as the ‘neoclassical approach’, has delved into many important real-world topics, from competition policy, through environmental regulation to the control of corruption. The lecture will begin with a...
Success in development over the past half century was greater than anyone anticipated, seen starkly in the contrast between Myrdal’s predictions for Asia just fifty years ago with what happened. Our understanding of development has changed: There is...
UNU-WIDER has for more than 30 years been associated with some of the most advanced thinking and practice in development economics, and it has over the past decade produced more than 2,000 publications under its 'Finance, Food and Climate Change' and...
On 11 July, Matias Busso Lead Economist at Inter-American Development Bank will be presenting the effects of small group remedial reading programs. Abstract - Remedial reading in small group tutorials: Short and medium run effects of three...
Thu, 12 July 2018
UNU-WIDER Library,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Reporting on UNU-WIDER research published in the working paper ‘Women legislators and economic performance’, news outlets The Times of India, The Quint, The Diplomat, and more, have published articles discussing the impact of women’s participation in...
Sam Jones is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER based in Mozambique, on extended leave from his position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He is a versatile economist with expertise in macroeconomic...
The Global Solutions Summit 2018, held on May 28 and 29 in Berlin, Germany was organised by the Global Solutions Initiative. The summit addressed major G20 topics including the future of work, infrastructure for sustainable development, food security...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute.
UNU-WIDER is looking for three outstanding individuals with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute.
UNU-WIDER is looking for outstanding individuals for the roster of experts with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to contribute to the management, implementation, and monitoring of the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique – Scaling-Up Research and Capacity programme, locally based...
On 28 August the results and outcomes of the 2017 ‘Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey’ were presented at a ceremony in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. High-level representatives from several ministries in Myanmar as well as other stakeholders...
Professor Kunal Sen has over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. He is the author of eight books and the editor of five volumes on the economics and political economy of development. Since 2019 he has...
Useful details about travel and arrangements related to the WIDER Development Conference, Think development - Think WIDER. The conference is being held in Helsinki, Finland, on 5-6 October 2017.
The political economy of structural transformation - has democracy failed African economies? by Ernest Aryeetey The lecture will be live streamied on Friday 14 September at approximately 16:40. The stream can also be accessed from our YouTube channel...
On 27 September 2018 UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp will give a presentation on development and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation.
Thu, 27 September 2018
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland,
Helsinki,
Finland
On 28 August, the Steering Committee meeting for the Towards inclusive development in Myanmar project met for the fourth time at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
Tue, 28 August 2018
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office,
Naypyidaw,
Myanmar (Burma)
John Hudson, dear friend and respected contributor to UNU-WIDER, passed away on 13 July 2018 at the age of 71. He provided significant research support to the UNU-WIDER Re-Comm project and became an important and valued member of the UNU-WIDER network.
WIDER Annual Lecture 22, given by Professor Ernest Aryeetey focused on the political economy of structural transformation in Africa. His talk highlighted that although there has been significant change, with power moving from authoritarian regimes...
On 10 October David Escamilla-Guerrero, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science, will present on the evolution of self-selection patterns of Mexican emigrants. Abstract: Self-selection of Mexican Emigrants in the presence of...
Wed, 10 October 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6A,
Helsinki,
Finland
The 2018 WIDER development conference, Think development – Think WIDER, took place in Helsinki, Finland, on 13-15 September. The conference focused on the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research over the last 10 years— finance, food and...
On 18 October, Lilian Korir, PhD Candidate, University of Lincoln, will present her research. Abstract - The nexus between food insecurity, vulnerability and resilience: evidence from Kenya Food insecurity remains a major global concern, particularly...
Thu, 18 October 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6A,
Helsinki,
Finland
We are seeking qualified proposals to advance economic research, capacity-building, and policy dialogue in South Africa and the southern Africa region. Submission deadline 30 November 2018 23:59 UTC+2.
A 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 article...
The 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 addition...
The ECUAMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers...
The ETMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.ETMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers alike...
The GHAMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.GHAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana, is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers alike...
The MicroZAMOD is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.MicroZAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia, is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers...
MOZMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.MOZMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Mozambique, is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers...
The TAZMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use. You may request access to the model here.TAZMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania, is a highly versatile yet easy to use tool for policymakers and researchers...
The VNMOD model is freely accessible for non-commercial research use but input data has to be manually constructed. Access to the model and the Stata do-files necessary to produce the underpinning input data set for the model can be requested here...
SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation models are available for non-commercial research use for the following countries, with each country model included in the so-called SOUTHMOD bundle:Bolivia (BOLMOD)Colombia (COLMOD)Ecuador (ECUAMOD)Ethiopia (ETMOD...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute. Closing date: 7 March 2018, 23:59 UTC+2.
Philip Verwimp, Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will present at the WIDER Seminar Series spring sneak-peak on 14 February 2018. Please note that pre-registration is not necessary for this event. Abstract – Impact evaluation of an off...
Wed, 14 February 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Carlos Gradín will kick off the spring 2018 session of the WIDER Seminar Series on 7 March 2018. Abstract – Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa | Slides In this paper, we show that occupations in...
Wed, 7 March 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Kalle Hirvonen, Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), will present at the 21 March 2018 session of the WIDER Seminar Series. Abstract – The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices...
Wed, 21 March 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
On 28 March 2018, Assistant Professor Vincent Somville of the Norwegian School of Economics will present at the WIDER Seminar Series. Abstract – Barriers to female empowerment: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania Many young girls in...
Wed, 28 March 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Sanchari Roy, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, will speak at the WIDER Seminar Series on 4 April 2018. Abstract – Women’s inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance...
Wed, 4 April 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Lore Vandewalle, Assistant Professor at The Graduate Institute, will speak at the 18 April 2018 session of the WIDER Seminar Series. Abstract – Access to formal banking and household finances: Experimental evidence from India Access to formal banking...
Wed, 18 April 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Martin Ravallion’s WIDER Annual Lecture focused on the economic and political issues surrounding the use of direct interventions, such as cash transfers and in kind contributions, against poverty. He highlighted two key lessons that are important for...
In order to improve the understanding of tax-benefit systems and their role in developing countries, and to increase the use of tax-benefit microsimulation models, UNU-WIDER invites proposals from qualified researchers for detailed economic analysis...
UNU-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 September...
Amina Ebrahim is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She is the focal point for the Domestic Revenue Mobilisation programme. She previously worked on UNU-WIDER’s Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) in Pretoria, South Africa...
Researchers will meet in Helsinki on 15-16 February 2018 to discuss their work arising from a recent UNU-WIDER call for papers for detailed economic analysis of the Viet Nam Access to Rural Households Survey (VARHS) dataset. The meeting provides a...
Tue, 13 February 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
This SAM is built using Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) unpublished industry-level production accounts, commodity-level supply–demand balances and a Supply Matrix together with national accounts, official public finance statistics, and IMF...
Patricia Justino, Research Fellow at IDS, will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 11 April 2018. Abstract – On the legacies of wartime governance In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local...
Wed, 11 April 2018
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6B,
Helsinki,
Finland
El Instituto Mundial para la Investigación de Economía del Desarrollo de la Universidad de las Naciones Unidas (UNU-WIDER) junto con el equipo de EUROMOD del Instituto de Investigación Social y Económica (ISER) de la Universidad de Essex y el...
Thu, 5 July 2018
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Fri, 6 July 2018
IAEN – Plataforma Gubernamental Financiera,
Quito,
Ecuador
Civic education programmes can have meaningful and relatively long-lasting effects in terms of increasing political information, feelings of empowerment, and mobilizing individuals to engage in political participation. Civic education programmes are...
Fragile and conflict-affected states, like Sierra Leone, can maintain a strong public financial management structure if they are able to find foreign support for administrative capacity and sufficient domestic political and executive support. PFM...
Land-based services will become increasingly important as global public goods in the context of changing climate, particularly in terms of mitigation and adaptation. Carbon sequestration, irrigation, infrastructure and local environmental services...
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot...
Japan’s post-war liberalizing reforms were a success. This was partly due to the fact that US occupation preserved the strength of national institutions and made effective use of their capacity. Improvement in the scope of the state and the strength...
While the majority of interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria had positive short-term effects, these were frequently not translated into long-term sustainable results. Cash transfers may have the potential of reducing HIV...
Most studies show that education aid has a modest but positive effect on enrolment levels. Less is known about the effect of aid on the quality of education. The effectiveness of education aid is to a large degree dependent on the stability of the...
Current international agricultural development and food security systems are ill-prepared to address the global agriculture, food and nutrition problems. Structural reforms are necessary to deliver the essential international public goods for...
Kosovo and East Timor share many similar characteristics, and yet they have had divergent results in post-conflict state building. East Timor has enjoyed far greater development success since its independence, whereas Kosovo is now the poorest and...
13 December 2013 Annett Victorero The effects of development aid are not straightforward, and often have unintended consequences. An inflow of money...
Levels of environmental aid for global issues are increasing. Environmental aid is increasingly allocated through bilateral aid agencies rather than through the multilateral channels created for this purpose. A consistent demand of developing...
Economic growth has had a negative effect on unemployment and poverty reduction in Africa. The transition from low- to middle income requires within sector increases in productivity and a shift of labour resources from low productivity agriculture to...
The five Paris principles of effective aid were only nominally successfully implemented in the state-building process of South Sudan. While the importance of the first principle, ownership, was highlighted in development plans in Southern Sudan...
This paper considers the implications of COVID-19 relief measures for the building and extension of comprehensive and universal social protection systems. It highlights three key areas emerging from the crisis, which are likely to affect the shape of...
The services sector is dominant and continues to experience unprecedented growth in many developing economies. However, in-depth empirical analysis of the drivers of services sector growth acceleration is limited. This paper examines and identifies...
The main goal of this study—and its potential to add to the policy debate—is to cast light on the network of voices that influence the narrative about inflation and monetary policy in South Africa. To that end, this paper first identifies the main...
This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share of the...
Throughout 2021, fiscal stimulus packages were introduced to jump-start the COVID-19 ‘post-pandemic’ economic recovery process. While calls for economic recovery packages that promise to ‘build back better’ have come from many directions, the under...
The study aims at bridging gaps in both theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to multigenerational persistence. From a theoretical standpoint, it argues that parental altruism is influenced by social heterogeneity rather than income-based...
The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in terms of causal direction and sign. One key factor contributing to this inconclusiveness is the lack of precision in the...
Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely high...
A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources. We provide an overview of this research in this paper. Furthermore, we use nationally representative survey data to estimate income...
Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the...
Globally, there are several initiatives being undertaken to ensure the availability of information across countries that can be used to analyse the inequality phenomenon in and among countries. The data are easily accessible for use in comparative...
A critical requirement for efficient fiscal policy is a reliable understanding of its impact on the aggregate economy for different policy instruments and under different economic conditions. Indeed, there is strong evidence to suggest that fiscal...
We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches...
This paper discusses the rationale and options for a fiscal anchor for South Africa and its potential for restoring and maintaining fiscal sustainability. It argues that a well designed fiscal anchor can be useful in the current fiscal milieu, but...
The current context of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the most vulnerable socio-economic groups to greater financial risk and thus could lead to exacerbating income inequality. The crisis creates an opportunity to demand further structural and...
Using illustrations from research on inequality, this essay makes a case for ‘behavioural synthesis’, that is the reconciliation between neo-classical and behavioural economics. Focusing on selected theories of absolute and relative inequality, we...
This report documents the main findings of the Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms 2022 (IIM 2022). The survey was implemented in 2022 under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme with the support from the Finnish Ministry for...
Este relatório documenta os principais resultados do Inquérito às Indústrias Manufactureiras Moçambicanas 2022 (IIM 2022). O inquérito foi realizado em 2022 no âmbito do programa Crescimento inclusivo em Moçambique (IGM) com apoio do Ministério dos...
This study evaluates which type of benefit—a universal benefit, a proxy mean-tested benefit, or a categorical benefit— better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three benefit...
This study adds to knowledge on the role of politicians’ and voters’ identities in influencing policy-making in societies marked by ethnic inequality. The outcome we investigate is the initiatives and policies targeting Indigenous populations in the...
We investigate how the arrival and expansion of mobile network access in Uganda influences firm tax behaviour. Access to mobile technologies could broaden government revenues from corporate income tax through the extensive margin: by reducing the...
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools.The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and...
The global economy, dominated by the consequences of a disastrous health crisis and international tensions, needs policy support to regain its growth dynamic. To regain an inclusive and sustainable growth dynamic, structural policies of governments...
In the paper 'Aid reimagined: results from an elite survey on perceptions of progress, capacity, and development co-operation', we tabulated responses...
We design a lab-in-the-field experiment involving naturally occurring groups operating in three South-African townships. We introduce an incentives-based mechanism named 'participatory incentives' consisting of monetary incentives that are awarded...
THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article introduces the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset, which provides rich survey data from more than 12,000 respondents in Colombia. Our panel survey – carried out in two separate waves...
The rise of resilience policy in sustainable development Climate resilience is an increasingly popular response to development in a time of polycrisis...
Biased beliefs about future labor-market earnings are commonplace. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduate work transitions in Mozambique, this study assesses the contribution of employment mismatches to a large positive gap between expected (ex...
Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less-developed...
Violent conflicts affect the lives and livelihoods of almost one quarter of the world’s population. But the effects of violent conflict are not uniform. This study assesses the differential effects of violent conflict on young people’s education, job...
This study makes use of Mozambican social accounting matrices (SAMs) for the years 2007 and 2019, which we compare to uncover structural changes. Our findings reflect the significant short- and long-term challenges that Mozambican policy makers face...
Development assistance funding by international donors is rarely channelled to/through local actors. While there are strong normative and practical arguments for localizing funding, progress has been piecemeal as donors are largely left to their own...
Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard patterns seen in developed countries. While prior research has explored this shift’s impact on economic growth, its effects on women...
This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of education...
This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic.We show that increases in individualism and...
This report documents COLMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Colombia. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model takes advantage of these different provisions, and the database on...
Research on how income inequality affects borrowing behaviour reignited after the 2008 global recession. One prevailing theory is that rising income...
Mozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden debt crisis...
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of...
This ethnographic study explores the implementation of bilingual education in Mozambique: how it is understood, adapted, and resisted by school directors, teachers, and local officials. Bilingual education uses local languages in early grades before...
This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation—including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting—and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to...
THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment...
THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | A growing literature has documented widespread variation in the extent to which insurgents provide public goods, collect taxes, and regulate civilian conduct. This paper offers what is, to our knowledge, the first...