Policy workshop
Labour market inequality and intergenerational mobility
UNU-WIDER hosts an inception workshop on labour market inequality and intergenerational mobility part of the new inequality theme as part of our current 2024–27 work programme. On 16 April 2024, we host a collaborative brainstorming session that...
Tue, 16 April 2024
Hybrid,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project
Disadvantaged groups and social mobility
Theme: 2014-15
This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2) to...
News
Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER
‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’
News
Call for Contributions: GlobalDev and UNU-WIDER Blog series on social mobility
In the last decades, globalization and technological advancements have improved the living standards of billions of people, and enabled many households to cross the poverty line. Nonetheless, these trends have also exacerbated inequalities around the...
Lecture
13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal Sen
The recording of this lecture is available here. Professor Kunal Sen delivers the 13th B.G. Kumar Lecture on 'Is India the Land of Opportunity?' at the Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The lecture begins at 15:30...
Mon, 21 November 2022
CDS, Prasanth Nagar, Medical College P.O.,
Ulloor, Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala,
India
Past event
Lecture
Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and Policy
Kunal Sen gives a keynote address at the Annual Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Conference on Development (ABCD) 2021. The keynote address, on the topic of 'Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and Policy'...
Fri, 3 December 2021
Lakeshore Hotel,
House no. 46 Gulshan 2,
Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Past event
Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Mon, 9 May 2022
Online,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar University
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Fri, 22 April 2022
Online,
India
Past event
Presentation
Maria Lo Bue and Khoa Vu to present in YoDEV Webinar Series
Maria Lo Bue and Khoa Vu will present their work from the Social mobility in the Global South project on intergenerational mobility in Viet Nam. This presentation is a part of the Young Development Economists Webinar Series and will take place at 15...
Thu, 14 January 2021
Past event
Project workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
Thu, 5 September 2019
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Fri, 6 September 2019
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B ,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Journal Article
The individual poverty incidence of growth
The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth. Measurement tools endorsing this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamic in the population...
Working Paper
Degrees of disadvantage
This study is positioned in two strands of literature—intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By linking...
Blog
The Great Gatsby Curve and the Global South: Time for a more ambitious redistribution and reparations agenda
by
Diding Sakri,
Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf
April 2023
The famous 1920s book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the classic analogy for the American dream of meritocracy —that any person can...
Blog
Urban poverty: cities, slums, and the need for policy action
by
Emily Rains, Anirudh Krishna
October 2022
Developing countries will be predominantly urban by 2030. While urbanization is historically associated with development and broad-based social...
Blog
Report from the WIDER Development Conference on reducing inequality
For several decades, UNU-WIDER has actively worked on pathfinding and groundbreaking research on inequalities. We host one of the most extensive...
Blog
Reducing inequality — the great challenge of our time
by
Carlos Gradín
October 2022
Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the...
Blog
Social mobility among disadvantaged groups in India
In recent decades, India has experienced rapid economic growth alongside radical affirmative action programs enacted since independence. This column...
Working Paper
Foreign aid and intergenerational mobility in Africa
While there is extensive literature examining the growth and development effects of foreign aid, very little attention has been paid to its potential impact on social mobility. Thus, this paper provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of...
Blog
Not too long and not too short: Introducing the new UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press series in Development Economics
Simon Kuznets’ pipe dream was to have economic inequality data that rarely existed when he was writing. What are the pipe dreams of today’s...
Blog
Changing the lives of very young children: Evidence from Rwanda
by
Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Pierfrancesco Rolla, Monique Abimpaye, Caroline Dusabe, Diane Uwamahoro, Richard Germond
November 2020
Globally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full...
Policy Brief
Six sets of policy actions to promote social mobility
Promoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility. Policies of human capital...
Research Brief
What do we need to know about social mobility in the Global South?
The volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods and Determinants, brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to advance research practice on social mobility. Three sets of motivations guide this joint effort...
Blog
Advancing social mobility research: Where to start
by
Patrizio Piraino
February 2022
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges. That is why the most recent Nobel Prize in...
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