Results meeting
Aid for Gender Equality
In recent decades, aid donors have recognised that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to improving living standards, well-being, and economic growth. This insight has led to a fourfold increase in the flows of foreign aid toward...
Mon, 16 December 2013
Eigtveds Pakhus, Asiatisk Plads 2 G,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event
Project workshop
Contemporary issues in gender and development
Tue, 25 October 2016
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Wed, 26 October 2016
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
News
Caren Grown of the World Bank on gender equality and past work at UNU-WIDER
World Bank Senior Director Caren Grown spoke about women’s empowerment and the World Bank Group’s gender strategy at a discussion event on 28 October, organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. In her presentation, she mentioned how...
In the media
Research Fellow Smriti Sharma’s article on gender equality in India picked up
An article on gender equality in India written by UNU-WIDER’s Smriti Sharma is getting international attention. The piece, originally published in The Conversation, has been picked up by the US edition of The Huffington Post — pointing to global...
News
Aid in a Post-2015 World
Now out the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme summary which outlines 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.
News
Finn Tarp Moderates Public Meeting on Nordic Development Cooperation
The Finnish Minister for International Development Pekka Haavisto invited his Nordic colleagues to Helsinki to discuss how to enhance cooperation on development policy issues.
Presentation
Lessons from ReCom in a post-2015 perspective
ReCom (Research and Communication on Foreign Aid) occupied a key role in UNU-WIDER’s 2010-13 work programme addressing the triple crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change. Some 240 ReCom studies were prepared during a period of 3-years by around 300...
Wed, 8 October 2014
SIDA,
Valhallavägen 199,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Project
Gender and development
Theme: 2014-15
Substantial progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment has occurred over the past four decades, but key gaps, both in opportunity and capability, persist between males and females in all countries. This project focuses on generating high...
In the media
Girls’ school enrollment decreases in conflict – UNU-WIDER study gets attention in Indian news
The co-author of a recent UNU-WIDER study, Prakash Singh, has published a column in India’s news site, the Hindu Business Line. In the article, he discusses some of the challenges faced by girls and women in India and the vital role of education in...
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...
Blog
Tackling gender inequality from all directions
by
Katrina Jurva
March 2017
Improving the position of women continues to be an important concern in development. As we strive to make better living standards possible for people...
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