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From the Editor's Desk (March 2015)
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA, one of our research partners. UNU-WIDER...
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Inequality in Latin America and the Importance of Data - An Interview with Nora Lustig
In this interview Professor Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University, talks about the importance of...
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Some Forward Looking Thoughts on Studying Climate Adaptation for an Uncertain FuturePart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and Economic Development
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Identifying 'What Works' in Foreign Aid: Experimental and Non-experimental Approaches24 September 2013 Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa UNU-WIDER's ReCom programme is centred around four core questions: what works, what...
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Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
‘I intend to see a world in which tax policy research is based on evidence, and policy decisions are data-driven.’ This is an aspiration expressed by...
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Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than incomeWhat does it mean to be poor? On the face of it, this may not sound like a very difficult question. In developed countries, almost all official and...
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Urban SettlementThis paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of...
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What does it mean to be poor?Motivated by the siloed nature of much poverty research, as well as the challenge of finding inclusive operational definitions of poverty, this study reflects on the merits of seeking to reconcile economic (quantitative) and anthropological...
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Renewable energy in the Brazilian AmazonUnderstanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects...
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An Interview with David Malone
17 October 2013 In this video we interview the Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), David Malone from Canada, who has held both diplomatic...
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