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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Announcement
Enrolment Open — Decent Work and Economic Growth: Achieving SDG 8
This new online course provides research insights that support policymaking towards the achievement of SDG 8.
Blog Post
Financial Inclusion is Key to Reducing Haiti’s Vulnerability to Modern Slavery
For World Day Against Trafficking in Persons we explore how financial inclusion can be strengthened to protect vulnerable Haitians from exploitation.
Project
A Breakthrough for People and Planet
Building Momentum for the Summit of the Future and Beyond.
News
Advancing Sustainable Development: An Impactful Visit by UNU Rector
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, the esteemed Rector of UNU, visited the vibrant nation of Namibia accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Dr Michael Baldock.
Seminar
Nexus Seminar Series N.69 – Why African Entrepreneurs are Global Leaders of Innovation for Sustainable Development, and what we can learn from them?
This talk discusses of African entrepreneurs in the off-grid energy sector and the types of complex business model innovations they have produced.
News
UNU-WIDER Launches new World Income Inequality Database Explorer
The World Income Inequality Database (WIID), hosted and maintained by UNU-WIDER for more than 20 years, is now accessible via a new WIID Explorer.
