UNU research focuses on the challenges faced by the United Nations and its Member States. Our current research portfolio supports all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to inspire global action to overcome the world’s biggest challenges.
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Social Dialogue and Social Protection: Comparative International Case Studies
Investigated how social dialogue contributes to design, implementation and reform of social protection systems across diverse institutional contexts
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Global, Regional, and National Trends in International Solidarity to Finance Social Protection
The project examined how international development finance supports the expansion of social protection systems across low- and middle-income countries
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Self-Care Pathways to Financing Health and Development
Making the case for self-care as a practical response to growing health needs and constrained resources.
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Economic Research Forum (ERF): Advancing Evidence on Social Protection and Labour Markets in the MENA Region (2022–Present)
This programme strengthens the evidence base for social protection, labour markets, informality and inequality across the MENA Region.
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Development of a De Jure Indicator on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs Complementary to SDG Indicator 10.7.1
Develops a de jure indicator on recruitment fees and costs to complement SDG indicator 10.7.1, which measures the recruitment costs borne by workers.
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Access to education and right to participate of children with disability
This interdisciplinary research project aims to understand how access to education can foster the right of children with disabilities to participate.
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Inequality and Moral Universalism
Aims to examine how inequality shapes moral universalism and to identify the mechanisms through which different types of inequality influence it.
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Inequality and Innovation
This project analyses and compares how inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities shape innovation through effects on people's creativity.
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Inequality and the (Climate) Preference–Behavior Gap
This project investigates whether and through which mechanisms inequality shapes preferences for climate policies and climate behavior.
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Global Pluralism Monitor: Country Reviews in the MENA Region
This project contributes to the Global Pluralism Monitor through the review and assessment of country reports across the Middle East and North Africa.