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
Sustainable Cities Discussion Forum: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Hundreds of countries and cities the world over have committed to achieving the SDGs by the year 2030, but have they made any progress?
Event
Overcoming Underdevelopment — Lessons from the Bangladesh Journey
UNU-WIDER will host the webinar “Overcoming Underdevelopment — Lessons from the Bangladesh Journey” with guest K. A. S. Murshid.
Workshop
Dissemination Workshop: Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on Health, Social and Economic Welfare in Uganda
Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) is organising a virtual dissemination workshop for a project on COVID-19
Event
Industrial Skill Development in Developing Countries: Education, Skills Demands, and Productivity
An online workshop on TVET will bridge the macro policy discourse with the situation in actual workplaces.
Announcement
Request for Research Proposals: Economic Transformation, and Social Protection & Taxation
UNU-WIDER invited research proposals on topics of economic transformation and topics of social protection & taxation in developing countries.
Media Coverage
Can the UN Help Wean Us Off Our Fossil Fuel Addiction?
Event
Developing Fiscal States in Africa
On 2 December 2021 UNU-WIDER and the OECD Development Centre will host an online panel discussion on Developing Fiscal States in Africa.
