Blog
Mini-documentary: Viet Nam’s data revolution is well on its way
by
Katrina Jurva
July 2017
The international community rarely calls for a revolution. In this case, it has. A data revolution, says UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp. Viet Nam has...
Blog
Taking steps to overcome inequality in South Africa
by
Carlos Gradín
June 2017
Engagement is needed at all levels to address ongoing inequality faced in South Africa. This was the primary aim of a recent policy seminar in...
Blog
Obstacles for Mozambique’s manufacturing firms amplified by macroeconomic disturbances
by
Peter Fisker
June 2018
Mozambique has been facing macroeconomic difficulties since 2015. This has amplified the obstacles for micro, small and medium-sized manufacturing...
Blog
Mozambique: Improving our understanding of the potential of manufacturing
by
Vincenzo Salvucci
June 2018
Mozambique’s manufacturing industry is facing many challenges. Nevertheless, we should not underestimate its linkages to the rest of the economy and...
Working Paper
Individual-level employment transitions in rural Vietnam
Structural transformation in rural areas is a key issue in economic development. While much of the literature on structural transformation has so far focussed on household- or commune levels or even higher aggregate levels, little is known about the...
Working Paper
Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey
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...
Working Paper
Structural transformation and international trade
How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral allocation of labour and value-added in 46 developing economies over the period 1995–2017 and exploit for identification plausibly...
Working Paper
Savings transition in Asia
This paper examines the national savings behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of countries in developing Asia from a historical perspective. Developing Asia provides an ideal laboratory for the study with...
Working Paper
Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation
Digitalization and shifting patterns of globalization are fast changing the rules of the game for countries embarking on a path of industrialization. In this study, we empirically examine the impact of digitalization and global value chains on...
Book
Resurgent Asia
NOW IN PAPERBACK WITH REVISED PREFACE | Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama, in 1968, to conclude that Asia's development prospects were gloomy. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations Asia has been transformed beyond...
Blog
How can cities create better jobs in sub-Saharan Africa?
Structural transformation involves the movement of workers from low-productivity sectors to high-productivity sectors. It has historically been...
Working Paper
Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased. These structural changes have been...
Working Paper
Benign growth
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry’s...
Working Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa
This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before...
Blog
Double dividends and mixed blessings: What would the pioneers of development economics make of new trends in developing economies?
Today, we see clear trends in developing countries of a potentially troubling ‘new normal’ for economic development. We see tertiarization with rising...
Working Paper
Inclusive growth without structural transformation?
Through rapid urbanization, Brazil—previously a country where most workers were in the agricultural sector—went through a strong process of structural transformation that lasted almost four decades until economic liberalization at the beginning of...
Working Paper
Trade liberalization, employment, and gender in Ethiopia
This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade...
Blog
Sub-Saharan Africa had a manufacturing renaissance in 2010s – it’s a promising sign for the years ahead
by
Gaaitzen de Vries, Emmanuel Mensah, Hagen Kruse,
Kunal Sen
February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, with world output contracting at 3.5% in 2020, and no recovery likely before the fourth...
Blog
Supply or demand? Exploring the mechanisms behind the rise of female labour force participation in Mexico
by
Sonia Bhalotra, Manuel Fernández
March 2021
At the global level, gender gaps in labour force participation have narrowed and over half a billion women have joined the workforce in the last 30...
Working Paper
The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra Leone
This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas...
Blog
India’s manufacturing and services value-chains are shifting South: A curse or a blessing?
by
Karishma Banga
July 2021
Much has been written on India as an outlier in Global Value Chains (GVC). Despite being one of the largest and fastest-growing markets located in...
Working Paper
Rwanda
Since civil war and genocide left the country in ruins, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable transformation. Growth rates since 1995 have averaged 8 per cent annually, poverty rates have fallen, maternal and child health have improved, and...
Book
The Practice of Industrial Policy
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Much of the information relevant...
Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam (in Vietnamese)
Giới thiệu Việt Nam là một nước đông dân ở khu vực Đông Nam Á với lịch sử lâu đời và đặc trưng về kinh tế, chính trị và xã hội.2 Sau khi kết thúc chiến tranh với Hoa Kỳ năm 1975, Việt Nam đã có những tham vọng lớn về tương lai; song mặc dù có nhiều...
Blog
Reflections on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
The award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University, has led to a...
Working Paper
Industrial development in Asia
Industrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses...
Working Paper
Was Kuznets right?
We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012. Countries are in different stages of structural...
Working Paper
Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991–2015. A dynamic panel model of cross-country productivity...
Journal Article
Was Kuznets Right?
We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012. Countries are in different stages of structural...
Working Paper
Roads and jobs in Ethiopia
We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road...
Book
Resurgent Asia
Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama, in 1968, to conclude that Asia's development prospects were gloomy. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations Asia has been transformed beyond recognition, the development of nations and living...
Policy Brief
Resurgent Asia
In 1820, Asia accounted for two-thirds of world population and over half of world income. The subsequent decline of Asia was attributable to its integration with a world economy shaped by colonialism and driven by imperialism. By 1970, Asia was the...
Working Paper
Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth
This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed—or not—to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective. The empirical analysis of...
Blog
Comprehensive policy change needed in Myanmar to support structural transformation: Insights from the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017
The Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017 shows that there is a need for comprehensive and immediate change in industrial, financial...
Working Paper
The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India
The North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al. (2018) have documented the evolution of the village economy over this period in an exhaustive study entitled...
Presentation
Structural transformation, biased technical change and labor demand in Vietnam
The 2nd Asian Development Review Conference was organized in Manila 1-2 August 2013 by the ADB, the Asian Development Review (ADR) and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). The Director of UNU-WIDER, Finn Tarp, presented a paper on structural...
Thu, 1 August 2013
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Fri, 2 August 2013
Manila,
Philippines
Past event
Panel discussion
Joint UNU-WIDER, UNU-MERIT, AND UNIDO panel discussion, incorporating book launch: The past, present, and future of economic development via industrialization
Over the last two centuries, the experiences of the first wave of industrialized countries in Europe and the US, and the more recent experiences of the East Asian Tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India, and Vietnam, have illustrated the...
Thu, 11 April 2013
London School of Economics and Political Science, Wolfson Theatre,
London,
United States
Past event
Book
Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
This publication examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years or so under the neoliberal model in terms of impacts on growth, inflation, income and wealth distribution and structural change. The analysis includes a historical...
Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The household survey data used in...
Presentation
Kunal Sen joins webinar on BRICS and Emerging Economies
Hear from some of the world’s leading experts on BRICS and Emerging Economies at the launch event of the Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies
Thu, 20 May 2021
Online,
Past event
Policy seminar
A WIDER presentation on jobs - DFID policy seminar
Tony Addison, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp presented research evidence on the topic of job creation and employment at a policy seminar organized by the Department for International Development (DFID).
Thu, 31 March 2016
DFID,
22 Whitehall,
London,
United Kingdom
Past event
Project
ETD - Economic Transformation Database
Theme: Transforming economies
Seminar
Rekha Ravindran on the relationship between structural transformation and income inequality
Rekha Ravindran will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 28 October. Abstract - The relationship between structural transformation and income inequality in developing economies Though industrialization is postulated as the traditional way out of...
Mon, 28 October 2019
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Working Paper
Kuznets’ tension in India
Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two...
Working Paper
Structural transformation and inclusive growth
We focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries. We consider the ‘developer’s dilemma’ and the...
Working Paper
The developer’s dilemma
This paper discusses the ‘developer’s dilemma’—a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized...
Working Paper
Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana
This study examines the structural transformation–inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery programme...
Working Paper
Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countries
This paper examines the income inequality implications of a ‘premature deindustrialization’ trend in middle-income countries. To identify the premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on the trends in employment and...
Blog
Late development, early adoption – how new technology is reshaping the future of structural change
by
Lukas Schlogl
December 2020
Technological catch-up is bringing new asynchronies to development pathways. What does this mean for employment, globalization, and inequality? A...
Blog
The developer’s dilemma in India – the role of politics and economic ideology
by
Saon Ray, Sabyasachi Kar
December 2020
Policy makers seeking inclusive growth frequently face the developer’s dilemma between prioritizing structural transformation, which is potentially...
Blog
35 years of research for change – what's next?: Building just societies
To celebrate its 35th birthday, UNU-WIDER has looked back at some of its greatest achievements. As the year closes, Armida Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen...
Working Paper
Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of Mozambique
Mozambique is among the world’s least complex economies. By systematically accounting for both supply- and demand-side factors, we identify new products and sectors that can help to diversify and upgrade its economy. In a supply-side analysis, we use...
Blog
Why should I care about economic growth?
Director of UNU-WIDER, Professor Kunal Sen is a world leading expert in development economics and led on ESID’s research into economic growth. In this...
Book
The Developer’s Dilemma
The developer’s dilemma is thus: developing countries seek inclusive economic development — i.e., structural transformation — sufficiently broad-based to raise the income of the poor. Inclusive economic growth requires falling income inequality to...
Blog
Have you heard about the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database?
by
Gaaitzen de Vries
January 2021
On 17 February 2021 the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) and UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD) will be launched. The new...
Working Paper
Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern Africa
Despite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration...
Working Paper
From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification
The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective...
Research Brief
Tackling poverty and inequality in Southern Africa
Comprehensive harmonization is crucial to eliminate inefficiencies that hamper free movement of goods and services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Territorial collaboration between metropolitan clusters and rural areas...
Working Paper
Sectoral shifts and labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
Using the Economic Transformation Database, this paper attempts to assess the magnitude of structural transformation and the effects of sectoral shifts due to structural transformation on the labour market performance of 18 sub-Saharan African...
News
Kunal Sen invited to expert consultation with UNIDO on manufacturing responses to COVID-19
UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen was invited to contribute to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's (UNIDO) High-Level Expert Consultation (HLEC) which took place online on 18 May 2021. He joined eminent experts including Joseph E...
Presentation
GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database presented at STEG conference
On 13 January 2021, Gaaitzen de Vries, researcher at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) and UNU-WIDER, presented new research findings on industrialization patterns in developing economies at the online annual conference of the...
Wed, 13 January 2021
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Fri, 15 January 2021
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen joins ESCAP Expert Group Meeting on the Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2024
On 1 December UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen, joins the ESCAP Expert Group Meeting on their flagship publication, the Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2024. Prof. Sen's presentation contributes to discussions on the evolving role of the...
Fri, 1 December 2023
ESCAP ,
Bangkok,
Thailand
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen presents at REPOA's 27th Annual Research Workshop
On 8 November 2023 UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen virtually attends the 27th Annual Research Workshop of REPOA to present resent research on structural transformation. REPOA is a leading independent think tank in Tanzania and among the top think tanks...
Wed, 8 November 2023
Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Past event
Seminar
Varieties of structural transformation seminar by Kunal Sen
On 27 September Kunal Sen attends the The Faculty of Economics of Thammasat University in Pranakorn, Bangkok, to deliver a seminar titled 'Varieties of structural transformation'. The presentation draws on the UNU-WIDER project exploring the old and...
Wed, 27 September 2023
Bangkok,
Thailand
Past event
Panel discussion
Unpacking the developer's dilemma – panel discussion at ISID
Fri, 24 February 2023
Vasant Kunj Institutional Area,
New Delhi,
India
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the LDC5 Conference
Sun, 5 March 2023
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Thu, 9 March 2023
Qatar National Convention Centre,
Doha,
Qatar
Past event
Seminar
Addressing vulnerabilities through production transformation – Launch of the LDC5 Monitor
Thu, 9 March 2023
Qatar National Convention Centre, Room 105,
Doha,
Qatar
Past event
Video
WIDER Annual Lecture by Justin Yifu Lin
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on New Structural Economics.
About
Photos - AL15
Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 15.
About
Presentation - AL18
The WIDER Annual Lecture 18 was delivered on 18 November at the UN Headquarters in New York. The lecture, given by Professor Emeritus C. Peter Timmer of Harvard University, focused on the topic of structural transformation, especially within the...
About
Photos - AL18
Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 18.
Video
WIDER Annual Lecture by C. Peter Timmer
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on Managing structural transformation post-2015.
About
Contributors - AL18
Short biographies of those who contributed to the event.
Presentation
Third voice of social sciences international conference
The University of Dar es Salaam organized on 24-25 November 2016 a two-day conference with the theme 'Industrialization and social transformation: what is the role of social sciences?'
Thu, 24 November 2016
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Fri, 25 November 2016
University of Dar es Salaam,
P.O. Box 35091,
Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Past event
Panel discussion
Global Development Network 15th Annual Development Conference: Structural Transformation in Africa and Beyond
UNU-WIDER Special Session: Thursday 19 June, 2014, 16:00-17:30 Lessons from UNU-WIDER research: Research and Communication on Foreign Aid; Development Under Climate Change; and Learning to Compete
Thu, 19 June 2014
International Conference Centre,
Castle Rd,
Accra,
Ghana
Past event
News
Press Release - AL 15
Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, Professor Justin Yifu Lin will deliver the WIDER Annual Lecture 15 entitled ‘New Structural Economics’, on Wednesday 4th May 2011 at 08:00-11:30hrs, at the Centro De Conferências Joaquim Chissano, Maputo. The lecture is arranged in collaboration with the Government of Mozambique.
Network Angle: News from our Network
In the news this month, Kaushik Basu was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank. Justin Yifu Lin founder and first director of the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and Tilman Brück to Lead SIPRI in Stockholm The recent announcement by...
Working Paper
Urbanization, climate change, and structural transformation in Accra, Ghana
This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from Ghana’s Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological Agency...
Workshop
African urbanization – bridging the gap to structural transformation
Urbanization has long been associated with structural transformation—the shift of workers from low-productivity sectors to high-productivity ones. This shift is crucial to fostering economic growth and reducing poverty. However, the story of African...
Thu, 9 November 2023
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Fri, 10 November 2023
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Lecture
UNU-WIDER researchers deliver lecture on structural transformation to professionals from the African Development Bank
On 9 May 2023, Kunal Sen and Michael Danquah will give a lecture on structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa as part of a training programme by the University of Bradford, UK. The content of the training draws from UNU-WIDER's African Cities...
Tue, 9 May 2023
University of Bradford,
Bradford,
United Kingdom
Past event
Lecture
IEA seminar — Digital Technologies: Limits and Opportunities for Economic Development
A discussion featuring Dani Rodrik, Daren Acemoglu, Mahdi Ghodsi, Kunal Sen, Albert Park, and Haroon Bhorat. These leading economists discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of technology in shaping welfare outcomes in developing...
Tue, 12 October 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
Lecture
Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century
Thu, 9 November 2023
Event Square at Helsinki City Hall,
Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Workshop
Micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet Nam
This workshop organized by UNU-WIDER brings together early-career researchers to present first drafts of their papers on the 2015 wave of the micro, small, and medium enterprises survey.
Tue, 8 November 2016
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM),
68 Phan Dinh Phung, Ba Dinh district,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Policy seminar
Launching the Viet Nam 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)
Wed, 16 November 2016
Conference room D, CIEM,
68, Phan Dinh Phung,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Video
Special Session on South Africa 1
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.2
Video
The Impact of Policies on Inequality
Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.3
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
Wed, 4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano,
Avenida Marginal 4441,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Conference
Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years After The Fall of The Berlin Wall
Contact person Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen, Senior Editorial and Publishing Assistant Opening statement by President Václav Havel Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall September 2009 WIDER Conference Photo gallery of...
Fri, 18 September 2009
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Sat, 19 September 2009
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
Tue, 18 November 2014
Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium,
New York,
United States
Past event
Seminar
Multidimensional Child Poverty Assessment Methodology
The ‘Multidimensional Child Poverty Assessment Methodology’ seminar was held in Maputo on 8 July 2015. It was part of the UNU-WIDER Research Programme theme of Transformation organized in partnership with the Ministry of Economics and Finance of...
Wed, 8 July 2015
University Eduardo Mondlane,
Avenida do Zimbábwe,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Policy workshop
Policy workshop on Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS)
On 19 May UNU-WIDER and the University of Copenhagen held a policy workshop on the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) in partnership with the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in Hanoi as part of the ongoing...
Tue, 19 May 2015
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM),
68 Phan Đình Phùng, Quận Ba Đình,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Policy seminar
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Vietnam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
Wed, 5 August 2015
Central Institute for Economic Management, Main Hall,
68 Phan Dinh Phung Str. Ba Dinh,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Seminar
LDC5 Monitor – Defining its scope and uses
Thu, 7 March 2024
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Kunal Sen on Varieties of Structural Transformation – SOAS Seminar series
Kunal Sen joins the SOAS Economics Seminar Series to present insights from the book Varieties of Structural Transformation.One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural transformation, which is the movement of workers...
Thu, 29 February 2024
SOAS, University of London main building, RB01,
10 Thornhaugh St,
London,
United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
Carlos Gradín shares project findings at JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting at Columbia University
UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Carlos Gradín is invited to speak at the JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting convened by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (IPD). Carlos will...
Fri, 22 April 2022
Columbia University,
Suite 427 91 Claremont Ave,
New York, New York,
United States
Past event
Blog
The poorest countries attract few foreign investments
by
Jukka Aronen
March 2024
The share of the least developed countries (LDCs) in global foreign investments is less than one percent. But positive developments have taken place...
Working Paper
Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation
African cities are increasingly seen as key to unlocking national structural transformation and inclusive growth, as they tend to host the majority of the non-productive and informal labour force; attract the lion’s share of domestic investment in...