Economic growth

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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Seminar

Organisational Capabilities, Digitalisation, and Labour Productivity

MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series, in collaboration with the MILE–SBE Seminar Series, is pleased to announce an upcoming research seminar featuring Elena Cefis, Full Professor at the University of Bergamo.

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Seminar

Innovation Beyond Formal Boundaries: Modelling Capability Accumulation in Informal Firms

MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series is pleased to announce an upcoming research seminar featuring Dr. Danilo Spinola,Senior Lecturer in Economics at Birmingham City University (BCU).

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Report

The UN Beyond GDP Intergovernmental Process

Key Dimensions for 2026 and Beyond.

29 Apr 2026

Project

FUTURESILIENCE - EU Horizon Programme: Creating FUTUre societal RESILIENCE through innovative, science-based co-creation labs

Aims to strengthen European economic and social resilience through an enhanced ability to quickly respond to future crises.

21 Apr 2026

Project

InnovationGUIDE - Circular Economy Rural Innovation Ecosystem

Working with multi-stakeholders to develop a path and innovation guidance tool to promote rural innovation ecosystems in NL, Malta, Spain and Türkyie.

21 Apr 2026

Event

A New Era of International Cooperation: Reimagining Relations between the Global South and North

A high-level roundtable exploring whether middle powers can reshape global cooperation and bridge North–South divides

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