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.
Economic growth
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Seminar
A Numerical Revolution: Mathematics and Economic Growth in Pre-Modern Europe
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series team is pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar featuring Martina Iori (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies).
Event
International financial architecture reform: Towards a new governance for a fair and equitable economic order
Exploring how we can deliver more funding, faster, and on a more sustainable basis
Seminar
Varieties of Middle-income Trap: A Latin American Perspective on Structural Change Trajectories and External Demand Constraints
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: UNU-MERIT's UNESCO Chair on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development for Latin America will host a research seminar featuring Prof. Dr. Carlos Bianchi from the Institute of Economics at the University of the Republic (UDELAR) in Uruguay.
Seminar
How big does a 'big-push' poverty intervention need to be? Evidence from experimental variation in the size of asset transfers
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: The UNU-MERIT Seminar Series kicks off the new academic year with a seminar featuring Christine Valente, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Article
The Commercial Importance of Diversity in Generative AI
By combining AI’s precision with diverse human perspectives, companies can create products that are technologically advanced and unique.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: The Future Quantity and Structural Effects of Contemporary Automation
The PhD thesis investigates the potential consequences of the adoption of modern automation technologies in advanced and developing economies.