Working Paper
Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana
We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana, we...
Blog
Higher education and role models key for supporting further gender equality
by
Elli Keränen
February 2016
Gender equality is one of the cross-cutting concerns of the UNU-WIDER work programme 2014-18. In this interview economists Elizabeth Asiedu and Jean...
Blog
Baseline survey on Mozambican university graduates’ school-to-work transitions – looking forward to the launch
by
Felix Mambo
August 2018
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique will be launched on 4 September. This baseline survey is part...
Working Paper
Affirmative action with no major switching
Affirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor pre-college academic preparation. In the United States, those...
Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (June-August 2015)
And so we come to the summer Angle. We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight. The seagulls nesting...
Blog
Beyond the Crisis of the African University - Why Institutions Matter
by
Roger Williamson
June 2015
I recently returned from a week at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, speaking at a conference honouring Nobel laureate Desmond...
Working Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Forestry
Foreign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past...
Working Paper
Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites
This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important...
Report
Workshop on Employment in Tunisia
On the 10th of April, 2012, the African Development Bank and UNU-WIDER organized a research workshop on the theme of ‘Employment in Tunisia: What Do We Know? What is the Way Forward?’. The aim of this workshop was to bring together universities and...
Working Paper
Double jeopardy?
This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social–psychological mechanisms of ‘externalization’ and ‘internalization’ to understand the possible consequences of...
Presentation
Group visit by the students of Hokkaido University
Group visit by students of Hokkaido University, Japan, for briefing on UNU-WIDER's mandate and research, particularly ongoing research work within the project on Foreign Aid, Recom: Research and Communications
Thu, 30 August 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Group visit by the Helsinki Students' UN Association (HYKY ry)
Group visit by the Helsinki Students’ UN Association for a seminar on UNU-WIDER’s mandate and research programme, with a research presentation on the UNU-WIDER project ‘Development Under Climate Change’ given by James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU...
Thu, 3 May 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Launch of collaboration for joint University of Ghana–UNU-WIDER research and post-graduate teaching programme
UNU-WIDER’s collaboration with the University of Ghana for a joint research and post-graduate teaching programme is launched in presence of the Rector of the United Nations University Professor Konrad Osterwalder and the Vice-Chancellor of the...
Mon, 11 June 2012
The Great Hall, University of Ghana,
Accra,
Ghana
Past event
Blog
From Helsinki to Hanoi – An Interview with UNU-WIDER Alumnus Aziz Karimov
by
Susan Servas
February 2014
21 February 2014 Susan Servas An interview with WIDER alumnus, Aziz Karimov Every year UNU-WIDER hosts a number of PhD interns and young scholars from...