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UNU WIDER : Professor Patricia Justino appointed as next director of UNU-WIDER
Tokyo and Helsinki, 8 August 2025
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Integrating administrative data from the civil registry, social security, and national censuses, we provide novel evidence on intergenerational income mobility...
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UNU WIDER : Creating the fiscal space for development
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UNU WIDER : Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia
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UNU WIDER : Gross- versus net-basis taxation evidence for the UN Tax Convention negotiations
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UNU WIDER : GRD 2023 update: Cross-country tax and revenue collection data for almost 200 countries
An updated version of the Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) has been released. The dataset provides a complete picture of government revenue and tax trends...
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UNU WIDER : Improved compliance and a renewed social contract for the SDGs
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UNU-WIDER : Working Paper : The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–2018. We...
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A country’s public debt burden is one of its most important macroeconomic indicators, but there is growing recognition that debt statistics are plagued by...
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