Economic growth

UNU research provides guidance for navigating the changing geo-economic landscape while more effectively monitoring and evaluating economic progress and its social impacts. Our work in Africa, for example, is helping establish robust information systems to monitor and evaluate economic progress and its social impacts, thereby helping planners to transform skewed development into opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.

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Report

Governing Critical Minerals: Histories, Gaps, Actions and Innovative Models

How can critical minerals be governed more equitably? Five priorities for a more inclusive and cooperative global system.

09 Oct 2026

Event

The Promise of AI: Insights from the World Development Report 2026

On 22 October 2026, the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development, UNU, JICA and JADE will co-organize a special event to discuss findings from the World Development Report 2026.

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Project

The changing geography of the international diffusion of technological knowledge

Examines the evolving geography of international technological knowledge diffusion over the last four decades using multiple patent-based indicators.

22 Sep 2026

Project

Road infrastructure, economic development and forest loss in the Republic of the Congo

This paper studies the impact of large-scale road construction on economic development and forest loss in the Republic of the Congo.

22 Sep 2026

Symposium

Call for Papers: Economic Fitness and Complexity Symposium

The Economic Fitness and Complexity Symposium invites research on innovation, structural change and development.

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Seminar

Migration Seminar Series: Diaspora Engagement in a New World Order: Diplomacy, Policy and Power

Dr. Martin Russell on the changing role of diaspora engagement in diplomacy, policymaking, investment, and talent attraction.

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