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
Showing 61-72 of 142 results
Conference
Revving Up Revenue for Development – The Role of Domestic Resource Mobilization
OSLO: The WIDER Development Conference on the role of domestic revenue mobilization in development takes place in during 6-8 September, 2023.
Training
Second UGAMOD Retreat
KAMPALA: UNU-WIDER will host a training event on UGAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda, as a five-day research retreat.
Workshop
Bunching Estimators in Applied Economics Research
HELSINKI: UNU-WIDER will host an in-person workshop on bunching methods with Prof. Mazhar Wassem of Manchester University.
Conference
SOUTHMOD presentation at the LOTTE-Skatt conference
OSLO: UNU-WIDER Research Associate Jesse Lastunen will give a presentation at the conference, Celebrating tax-benefit modeling: 50 years with LOTTE.
News
T7 Issue Paper Urges G7 to Reignite Action on SDGs, Climate Change
A new publication calls on G7 leaders to strengthen action for the SDGs, carbon neutrality & climate-resilient development in collaboration with G20.
News
Policy Brief: Enhancing the Development Potential of South-South Migration
Exploring the transformational role of remittances and migrant investments - and the policy interventions needed to enhance their impacts.
News
Challenges to, and Best Practices for Implementing the SDGs — on a Mission along the Textile Supply Chain to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
Recent field visits in Southeast Asia aimed to gain insights into the sustainable practices carried out along the textile supply chain.
Event
Special RCE Session at 14th ICERD: Sharing RCE Experiences
UNU-IAS will hold an online session at the 14th ICERD under the theme ‘Circular Economy Education for Sustainable Development in Local Communities’.
Announcement
Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino Appointed as Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER
On 1 August 2022, UNU-WIDER appointed Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino as Deputy Director.
Event
Understanding Climate-Related Mobility in Contexts of Urbanization
This roundtable examined the challenges of climate-related mobility and processes of urbanization in the Global South.
