Blog

by Tony Addison December 2012

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...

• Accessibility
• Economic development
• Climate change

Blog

by Tony Addison September 2011

Tony Addison A visit to Buenos Aires in September provided a good vantage point to look at the euro zone’s deepening crisis. Angle readers will recall...

• Agriculture
• Depressions
• Economic development

Working Paper

Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. Wage workers are less happy than farmers across a range of different types of wage jobs...

• Agriculture
• Job satisfaction
• Quality of life

Research Brief

The presence of European colonial powers in Africa has left a long-lasting legacy that has severely impacted their development trajectories. But what are the lingering effects of colonization on economic performance, in particular with regard to...

• Colonies
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Journal Special Issue

• Economic development
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Journal Special Issue

• Economic development
• Human capital
• Poverty

Journal Special Issue

Summary measures of human well-being are increasingly used to compare and monitor performance within and across countries. The UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI) is one of a number of measures which have done much to refocus attention on the...

• Economic development
• Index numbers (Economics)
• Poverty

Working Paper

Every person desires some level of inner fulfilment at different stages of life and this could come from a combination of several factors including material and resource acquisition and social prestige. The challenge, however, is whether happiness...

• Poverty
• Poverty measurement
• Quality of life

Working Paper

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted...

• Food security
• Quality of life
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

The study examines welfare changes in China during the reform period (1978- ) by analysing various welfare indicators, the causes of change, and the shifting models. It provides an empirical case to the general debate over the relationship between...

• Government policy (Poor)
• Poverty measurement
• Public welfare

Working Paper

• Classical economics
• Consumption
• Decision making

Blog

by Jukka Pirttilä January 2015

Why does a mother from a poor African village not send her daughter to school, but instead marries her off to an old man as a second or third wife...

• Agricultural labourers
• Children
• Field experiments

Book Chapter

Part of Book Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia during the Transition

• Government policy (Poor)
• Poverty measurement
• Public welfare

Book Chapter

Part of Book Human Well-being

• Poverty measurement
• Methodology (Poverty)
• Qualitative research methodology

Book Chapter

Part of Book Human Well-being

• Equality and inequality
• Policy sciences
• Quality of life

Book Chapter

Part of Book Human Well-being

• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution
• Poverty