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A decade of better evidence for tax and social policy
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Can Africa escape the climate–conflict–poverty trap?

WIDER Annual Lecture 30
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2026 Jobs and Development Conference

9–10 October 2026 in Hong Kong, China | The conference brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from around the world to discuss the latest insights on jobs, labour markets, and inclusive development.

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    Associate Communications Officer, SA-TIED, (P-2), South Africa

    UNU-WIDER is hiring an Associate Communications Officer to join our SA-TIED team in Pretoria, South Africa. You will work at the intersection of research, communications and policy engagement, helping to translate and communicate evidence, connect...

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    UNU-WIDER is hiring an Associate Partnerships & Programme Officer in Pretoria, South Africa. Join the SA-TIED programme and work at the intersection of research, policy and partnerships, helping to turn evidence into meaningful policy engagement.

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    Image Transition materials for sustainable development: What role for international institutions?
    Sun, 8 November 2026 09:00
    Antalya, Türkiye
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    Resources, conflict, and poverty in a warming world
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    The UN’s new Global Risk Report makes for gloomy reading. Conflict has risen sharply in respondents’ rankings, while climate inaction remains the...

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    2026 Jobs and Development Conference

    The Jobs and Development Conference 2026 brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from around the world to discuss the latest insights on jobs, labour markets, and inclusive development.

    Fri, 9 October 2026 – Sat, 10 October 2026
    HKUST, Hong Kong, China
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    Image Strategic Dialogue on International Tax Cooperation, its Economic Impact, Cross-Border Revenues, and Priorities
    Wed, 14 October 2026 14:00
    Bangkok, Thailand
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    Why poverty policy needs to look inside the household
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    Poverty is usually measured at the household level, but deprivation is experienced by individuals. Resources, opportunities, and decision-making power...

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    What is the role of climate change in multidimensional poverty?
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    As close to a billion individuals continue to live in precarious circumstances, deteriorating climatic conditions pose a further challenge to our...

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    Can Bolsa Família break the cycle of poverty?
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    Can Africa escape the climate–conflict–poverty trap?

    On 30 September 2026, distinguished economist Edward Miguel delivered WIDER Annual Lecture 30, Can Africa escape the climate–conflict–poverty trap?Climate change increasingly reshapes development prospects around the world, but the risks are...

    Wed, 30 September 2026
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    Is a formal job in Ecuador enough to level the playing field?

    In most countries, inequality is strongly correlated with low levels of social mobility and inequality of opportunity. New evidence from Ecuador shows...

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    Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict
    – Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change

    This book explores the emergence of wartime governance and its enduring effects on post-conflict state-building, development, and institutional change. Drawing on rich empirical research and original case studies from conflict-affected countries...

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    How equal are life chances for children of different backgrounds in Egypt?
    – A study of the country’s intergenerational mobility has some answers

    Empirical studies of social mobility often try to measure how closely someone’s economic status correlates with their parents' economic status. This...

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    Is your brother partly to blame for the gender pay gap?

    Women earn less than men, on average and over their lifetimes, and experience less stable employment trajectories. These persistent differences in...

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    The Economics of Power and Poverty in the Home
    – Progress and Challenges in Measuring and Targeting Individual Well-Being within Households

    The primary goal of economics is, or should be, to improve the living conditions and overall well-being of individuals, but most analyses of inequality, poverty, and the redistributive effects of public policies are conducted instead at the household...

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    Global income polarization: relative and absolute perspectives

    This paper presents the first long-run estimates of global and regional income polarization covering the period 1960–2020. Using grouped data from the World Income Inequality Database, we reconstruct country income distributions using a flexible...

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    From university to employment - how graduates navigate early careers
    – Evidence from Mozambique’s school-to-work (S2W) follow-up tracking study (2025)
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    Evidence that builds trust – from scepticism to credibility
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    When SOUTHMOD began a decade ago, its promise was simple but ambitious: to help countries understand how taxes and social benefits shape people’s...

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    Secure research data labs: unlocking evidence-based policy in Africa through data

    UNU-WIDER is working with national revenue authorities across sub-Saharan Africa to establish secure research data labs. These pioneering facilities enable researchers to access anonymized administrative tax data in a controlled, secure environment. The labs are transforming how data is used for policy-relevant research across the continent. More and better data fosters a strong research evidence base to answer long-standing policy questions.

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