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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Press Release
New UN Report Warns of Global Social Crisis Driven by Insecurity, Inequality and Distrust
The World Social Report calls for a new policy consensus anchored in equity, economic security for all and solidarity.
Media Coverage
Rating agencies don't treat the Global South fairly
In The Conversation Daniel Cash explains how credit rating agencies wield outsized power over the financial futures of developing nations.
Workshop
YSI Workshop on Structural Change, Inequality, and Growth
A two-day Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Workshop hosted by UNU-MERIT
Side Event
Credit ratings and sustainable development investment
Identifying practical pathways to reform the credit rating ecosystem.
Symposium
A survey of designs for a new global sovereign debt mechanism
Strengthening the global debt architecture: design options for a more predictable, equitable and reliable system
Announcement
Innovative Partners at Business Meets Science
Conversation Series