Second Preparatory Committee Session for FfD4

UNU-WIDER at the Second Preparatory Committee Session for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

UNU-WIDER contributes to policy recommendations for the G20

Sub-Saharan Africa faces an alarming debt burden that could hinder progress on sustainable development goals

COVID-19 pandemic, household welfare and diversification strategies of smallholder farmers in Uganda

The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century by Gabriel Zucman

WIDER Annual Lecture 28 Brief

UNU-WIDER launches a free online training course in tax-benefit microsimulation for Global South countries

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Foreign aid can help stem the decline of democracy, if used in the right way

Democracy is having a hard time. In India, once the world’s largest democracy, the pandemic has hastened the country’s slide toward authoritarianism...

Working Paper
Unravelling aid funding

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...

Research Brief
Oranges and yellow paper creating circular and wavy patterns. Photo by Li Zhang on Unsplash
The rise of social protection in the Global South – the role of foreign aid
Blog
Unpacking 'country ownership': four messages from the field

The new and improved Global Partnership monitoring framework for effective development co-operation, launched in 2022, is now fully in motion, with...

Blog
Development aid cuts will hit fragile countries hard, could fuel violent conflict

Fragile and least developed countries have had their development assistance cut drastically, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

Report
The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid
Policy Brief
Aid effectiveness

The questions of whether aid has impact and is effective have been the subject of considerable attention. This thematic issue brings together nine studies that speak to the diverse ways in which aid affects development outcomes including, but not...

Presentation
Does aid contribute to economic development?

Presentation UNU-WIDER and research on foreign aid. A large and comprehensive, joint research, documentation and communications initiative.

Thu, 4 April 2013
African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia
Past event
Presentation
Presentation to the Agence Française de Développement

Lead researchers from UNU-WIDER's Assessment of potential distributional impacts of four development programmes in Benin, Djibouti-Ethiopia, Uganda, and Viet Nam project present the research results to officials at the Agence Française de...

Thu, 14 September 2023
Agence Française de Développement, Headquarters, 5 rue Roland Barthes, Paris, France
Past event
Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist at Finland's Development Policy Days 2021

Rachel M. Gisselquist joins a panel discussion at the annual Development Policy Days event hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland. The event is held 9-10 November 2021 both online and at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki from 8:30 – 16:30. Rachel...

Tue, 9 November 2021 – Wed, 10 November 2021
Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project
Effects of Swedish and international democracy support

Theme: Transforming states

Project
Effects of aid on social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Theme: Transforming states

Journal Special Issue
Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Working Paper
Aid's impact on democracy

This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid on democratic outcomes using a panel of countries for the period between 1995 and 2018. In so doing, it speaks to a major critique of foreign aid, which is that it negatively impacts democratic...

Working Paper
Good for now but not forever: officials’ perspectives on the relevance of the effectiveness agenda and the need for change

This paper investigates whether the current effectiveness agenda—agreed during the 2011 Busan High Level Forum on Development Effectiveness—continues to define best practice in development amidst a rapidly changing development landscape. To do so, we...

Working Paper
Development aid in fragile states

Drawing from a growing body of literature on development aid in fragile contexts, this paper investigates the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The paper uses the OECD’s Principles for Good International...

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