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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A Transformational Approach to Climate Change
Event
Towards a Nexus Knowledge Agenda
A focus on key building blocks of the nexus approach from biophysical, socioeconomic, and policy perspectives.
Event
Development Challenges in Africa in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
An online conference discussing the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the African continent.
News
Apply Now for 2021 JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
UNU-IAS is now accepting applications for the 2021 JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship programme. The application deadline is 21 Feb. 2021.
Seminar
The Changing Face of Aid and Development in the Post-COVID World
Aid and development: Where we are, how we got here, and where it might all go
Media Coverage
COVID-19 Could Lead to New Wars in Authoritarian Countries
Governments should be worried about the impact of the pandemic on their economies.
Press Release
COVID-19 Fallout Could Push Half a Billion People into Poverty in Developing Countries
New UNU research warns that global poverty could skyrocket as a result of the economic fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic.
Blog Post
AI & Global Governance: Using International Standards as an Agile Tool for Governance
Standards offer a first step to help erect guardrails in the international and market competition for AI.
Blog Post
AI & Global Governance: AI in Africa is a Double-Edged Sword
Can Artificial Intelligence be a useful tool for augmenting state capacity in weak and fragile contexts?