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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Media Coverage

What Gabon's Rating Downgrade Tells Us About How Sovereign Credit Worthiness Is Judged

In The Conversation, Daniel Cash examines how Gabon's credit rating downgrade highlights the impact of sovereign ratings on development finance.

04 Aug 2026

News

From Leaf to Superfood

Ery Fukushima is helping the Amazon thrive by using biotechnology to unlock its hidden value

16 Jul 2026

News

Paper Presentations by Alberto Maresca, UNU-CRIS PhD Fellow

Alberto Maresca will present papers at conferences in Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Brazil (São Paulo).

13 Jul 2026

Seminar

Detecting Technological Trajectories: Emergence, Convergence, Divergence, and Dormancy in Innovation Dynamics

Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series is pleased to promote an upcoming research seminar featuring Roney Fraga Souza from the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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