Working Paper
Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women?
This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of...
Blog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part II)
by
UNU-WIDER, Gimelgo Xirinda, Esmeralda Napaua
April 2019
At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the...
Background Note
The cost of waiting
A total of 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on either education or health.UNCTAD, A World of DebtIntroduction Following a decade of rapid debt accumulation, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, public...