WIDER
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is part of the United Nations University
(UNU). UNU-WIDER, the first research and training centre to be established by the UNU, is an international academic organization set up with the aim of promoting peace and progress by bringing together leading scholars from around the world to tackle pressing global problems.
suggested that the time had arrived when serious consideration might be given to establishing an international university. An international university, the Secretary-General said, would be devoted to the Charter objectives of peace and progress. It would be staffed with professors from many nations and all parts of the world. The university would thus serve to break down the barriers that created misunderstanding and mistrust between nations and cultures.
The UNU was established by the General Assembly on 6 December 1973 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare. The UNU started its activities in 1975 at its headquarters in Tokyo.
The UNU established UNU-WIDER following a brainstorming of leading economists of the day outlining the need for an institution to undertake a sustained effort for a more comprehensive understanding of the forces at work in the global economic system and their consequences for specific developing country situations and at the international level
In November 1983 Finland offered to host UNU-WIDER in its capital Helsinki, providing premises for the Institute and an endowment fund of US$25 million.
UNU-WIDER was founded by a Host Country Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding signed by the then Foreign Minister of Finland, Paavo Väyrynen, and the Rector of UNU, Soedjatmoko, on the 4th of February 1984.
was appointed the inaugural director the 1st of March in 1985, and the institute was initially located at premises at Annankatu 42C in Helsinki, Finland.
, 2009
Paul Krugman
, 2008
Joseph E. Stiglitz
, 2001
Amartya Sen
, 1998
John C. Harsanyi, 1994
Douglass C. North, 1993
Robert W. Fogel, 1993
Robert M. Solow, 1987
(Nobel Peace Prize
, 2008)
Edmund S. Phelps (2006)
James A. Mirrlees(1996)
UNU functions as a decentralized 'network of networks' with an interdisciplinary and global perspective. The UNU system comprises the UNU Centre in Tokyo and a world-wide network of Research and Training Centres and Programmes (RTC/Ps) assisted by numerous associated and cooperating institutions.
, UN, ECLAC, UNDP, FAO
, International Labour Organization
, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD), UNICEF and the Bretton Woods institutions including the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund
. Visiting scholars typically spend two to three months in Helsinki working on topics related to the current research programme. The internship programme allows PhD students in economics or related social sciences to spend two to three months at UNU-WIDER.
and India
, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
(Sida), and the Nippon Foundation
(Sasakawa Foundation, Japan). Income from the endowment fund has largely covered core expenditures. Supplementary financial support for research and other activities has been received from the governments of Denmark
, Finland, Italy
, Norway
, Sweden and the United Kingdom
; the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
( Kuwait), Ford Foundation
, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
(Finland), MacArthur Foundation
, Oracle
(Finland), Rockefeller Foundation
, SITRA
(Finnish National Fund for Research and Development), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
(UN-DESA), United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), and the World Bank. In-kind contributions, such as assistance in hosting workshops and conferences, are also regularly received from various universities, United Nations agencies and other international organizations.
. Tarp also holds the Chair of Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he completed his MSc and PhD in Economics. Former directors include; Anthony Shorrocks
, Matti Pohjola
, Giovanni Andrea Cornia
, Mihály Simai
and Lal Jayawardena
.
Typically, two large development conferences are organized annually in Helsinki, each of which brings together around 100 individuals to present papers and to discuss current problems on development issues. Participants are usually researchers and policy makers from the academic, government, and development communities. Special attempts are made to encourage researchers from developing countries and to achieve a gender balance at these events.
The research studies are published as WIDER working papers. The outcomes also often include a policy brief and an article in the WIDERAngle.
2010 Ronald Findlay
- The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
2009 Deepak Nayyar
- Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
2008 Kemal Derviş
- The Climate Change Challenge
2006 Angus Deaton
- Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
2005 Nancy Birdsall
- The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
2004 Dani Rodrik
- Rethinking Growth Strategies
2003 Kaushik Basu
- Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms
2002 Jeffrey G. Williamson
- Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization
2001 Frances Stewart
- Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development
2000 Jagdish N. Bhagwati - Globalization and Appropriate Governance
1999 A. B. Atkinson
- Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus
1998 Joseph E. Stiglitz
- More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving Toward the Post-Washington Consensus
1997 Douglass C. North - The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem
Ranking=
In 2010 UNU-WIDER was ranked as 7th best International Development Think Tank by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.
External links=
United Nations University
The United Nations University is an academic arm of the United Nations established in 1973, which serves purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The UNU undertakes research into the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare that are the concern of...
(UNU). UNU-WIDER, the first research and training centre to be established by the UNU, is an international academic organization set up with the aim of promoting peace and progress by bringing together leading scholars from around the world to tackle pressing global problems.
The establishment of the UNU and UNU-WIDER
In 1969 the UN Secretary General U ThantU Thant
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, died in September 1961....
suggested that the time had arrived when serious consideration might be given to establishing an international university. An international university, the Secretary-General said, would be devoted to the Charter objectives of peace and progress. It would be staffed with professors from many nations and all parts of the world. The university would thus serve to break down the barriers that created misunderstanding and mistrust between nations and cultures.
The UNU was established by the General Assembly on 6 December 1973 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare. The UNU started its activities in 1975 at its headquarters in Tokyo.
The UNU established UNU-WIDER following a brainstorming of leading economists of the day outlining the need for an institution to undertake a sustained effort for a more comprehensive understanding of the forces at work in the global economic system and their consequences for specific developing country situations and at the international level
In November 1983 Finland offered to host UNU-WIDER in its capital Helsinki, providing premises for the Institute and an endowment fund of US$25 million.
UNU-WIDER was founded by a Host Country Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding signed by the then Foreign Minister of Finland, Paavo Väyrynen, and the Rector of UNU, Soedjatmoko, on the 4th of February 1984.
Mandate
UNU-WIDER's mandate is to undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people; provide a forum for professional interaction and advocacy of policies leading to equitable and environmentally sustainable growth; and train researchers and government officials in the field of economic and social policy making.History
Following the approval by the Finnish Parliament, the Host Country Agreement came into force on 20 June 1984. Lal JayawardenaLal Jayawardena
Lal Jayawardena was a noted Sri Lankan economist and diplomat, and was the first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research...
was appointed the inaugural director the 1st of March in 1985, and the institute was initially located at premises at Annankatu 42C in Helsinki, Finland.
Research
During its existence UNU-WIDER has produced a large amount of research on the broad topics of poverty, inequality and growth. The Research Programme changes every two years. It is constructed by the Director in consultation with the UNU-WIDER Board following extensive discussions with UNU-WIDER research staff, leading economists, and donor government representatives. Areas of research have spanned all facets and levels of development economics including topics like; Finance and trade; economic growth and the environment; women and development; international migration and refugees; micro-simulation of tax benefit reforms; social impact of privatization; fiscal policies for growth; transition and institutions; development aid; global trends in inequality and poverty; personal assets from a global perspective and many more. During the mid-1980s the Horn of Africa was confronting widespread famine. As this coincided with the launch of the very first UNU-WIDER research programme, the theme of “Hunger and Poverty: The Poorest Billion” was included in it. This research was directed by Jean Drèze and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. It has been argued that the resulting three volumes of study transformed the thinking on issues of famine and food security at the time. In the late 1990s WIDER undertook a major study of income inequality trends throughout the world under the direction of its then director Giovanni Andrea Cornia. The study uncovered so called “new causes” of inequality linked to excessively liberal economic policies and the way in which economic reforms have been implemented. Furthermore, the study produced the first version of the World Income Inequality Database (WIID). It is a comprehensive and freely available database of statistics on inequality trends within countries. Since 2009, under director Finn Tarp, UNU-WIDER has concentrated widely on the “triple crisis” of food, climate change and finance.Nobel laureates in economics associated with UNU-WIDER
Elinor OstromElinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom is an American political economist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." She was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in...
, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
, 2008
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal . He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank...
, 2001
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
, 1998
John C. Harsanyi, 1994
Douglass C. North, 1993
Robert W. Fogel, 1993
Robert M. Solow, 1987
Other Nobel laureates and Prize winners connected with UNU-WIDER activities
Martti AhtisaariMartti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
(Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
, 2008)
Edmund S. Phelps (2006)
James A. Mirrlees(1996)
Controversy
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the press reported on various financial and organisational irregularities about UNU-WIDER and its management..Institutional framework
The Council of UNU determines the principles and policies guiding the whole university. The Board of UNU-WIDER, comprising well-known economists, policy-makers, and social scientists from all over the world, advises on research and other activities. The Director of UNU-WIDER has overall responsibility for the research and management of the Institute, and implements the research programme in keeping with guidelines set out by the Board and the Council.UNU functions as a decentralized 'network of networks' with an interdisciplinary and global perspective. The UNU system comprises the UNU Centre in Tokyo and a world-wide network of Research and Training Centres and Programmes (RTC/Ps) assisted by numerous associated and cooperating institutions.
Organization
Research is coordinated by Helsinki-based staff consisting of resident researchers and support staff. A network of external project directors, located at their universities or institutes, contribute to current projects along with several hundred network participants around the world. This group includes research staff from the UNUUNU
UNU or Unu can refer to:* United Nations University* University of Nottingham Union, an obsolete title of the University of Nottingham Students' Union* Unnilunium , another name for the chemical element 101, Mendelevium...
, UN, ECLAC, UNDP, FAO
Fão
Fão is a town in Esposende Municipality in Portugal....
, International Labour Organization
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. It is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment, and development issues....
(UNCTAD), UNICEF and the Bretton Woods institutions including the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
and International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
. Visiting scholars typically spend two to three months in Helsinki working on topics related to the current research programme. The internship programme allows PhD students in economics or related social sciences to spend two to three months at UNU-WIDER.
Funding
UNU-WIDER was founded with contributions from the governments of FinlandFinland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is a government agency of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Sida is responsible for organization of the bulk of Sweden's official development assistance to developing countries....
(Sida), and the Nippon Foundation
Nippon Foundation
is a private, non-profit grant-making organization. It was established in 1962 by Ryoichi Sasakawa, the late statesman and businessman who, following World War II, was accused, albeit not convicted, of class A war crimes...
(Sasakawa Foundation, Japan). Income from the endowment fund has largely covered core expenditures. Supplementary financial support for research and other activities has been received from the governments of Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, Finland, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, Sweden and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
; the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development is a Kuwait-based, pan-Arab development finance institution. All member-states of the Arab League are members of the AFESD. As of 2003, it held around USD 7.3 billion in assets....
( Kuwait), Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is a charitable foundation whose aims are to not only promote Finnish research in economics and medicine but also to maintain and support educational and research facilities in Finland. It was established in 1954 by the wife of Yrjö Jahnsson, Mrs. Hilma Jahnsson.It...
(Finland), MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
, Oracle
Oracle
In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....
(Finland), Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
, SITRA
SITRA
SITRA , the Finnish Innovation Fund, was founded in the year 1967 as a part of the Bank of Finland. Currently it is an independent public foundation which operates directly under the supervision of the Finnish Parliament. Sitra's president is Mr. Mikko Kosonen.Sitra's duties are stated in legislation...
(Finnish National Fund for Research and Development), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to the major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Second and Third Committees...
(UN-DESA), United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...
(UNDP), and the World Bank. In-kind contributions, such as assistance in hosting workshops and conferences, are also regularly received from various universities, United Nations agencies and other international organizations.
Directors
The current director of UNU-WIDER is Finn TarpFinn Tarp
Finn Tarp is a Danish Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen and Director of UN University-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland....
. Tarp also holds the Chair of Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he completed his MSc and PhD in Economics. Former directors include; Anthony Shorrocks
Anthony Shorrocks
- Academic career :Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of UNU-WIDER.Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the University of Essex...
, Matti Pohjola
Matti Pohjola
Matti Pohjola is a noted economist working on the economics of growth, productivity, technological change, and most notably information and communications technology...
, Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Giovanni Andrea Cornia is development economist. He holds a professorship at the University of Florence. He has previously been the director of IRPET, of the World Institute for Development Economics Research and UNICEFs research centre in Florence- Economic and Social Policy Research Programme of...
, Mihály Simai
Mihály Simai
Mihály Simai is a noted Hungarian economist employed by the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. At the same time he holds a professorship at Corvinus University...
and Lal Jayawardena
Lal Jayawardena
Lal Jayawardena was a noted Sri Lankan economist and diplomat, and was the first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research...
.
Research
The Research Programme is reformulated every two years by the Institute’s director in consultation with the UNU-WIDER Board following extensive discussions with UNU-WIDER research staff, leading economists in the UN and elsewhere, and donor government representatives. Research projects are led by scholars (Research Fellows and External Project Directors) who elaborate the proposals before the projects are launched. Each project typically invites selected authors to write original research papers which are later presented and discussed at project workshops and conferences. In some cases, a more general 'call for papers' may be announced on the Institute’s website.Typically, two large development conferences are organized annually in Helsinki, each of which brings together around 100 individuals to present papers and to discuss current problems on development issues. Participants are usually researchers and policy makers from the academic, government, and development communities. Special attempts are made to encourage researchers from developing countries and to achieve a gender balance at these events.
The research studies are published as WIDER working papers. The outcomes also often include a policy brief and an article in the WIDERAngle.
Annual lecture
The WIDER Annual Lecture is delivered by an eminent scholar who has made a significant contribution in the field of economics of development and transition.2010 Ronald Findlay
Ronald Findlay
Ronald E. Findlay is the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York. He joined Columbia in 1969 first as a visiting professor and was appointed a professor in 1970...
- The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
2009 Deepak Nayyar
Deepak Nayyar
Dr.Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta , and the New School for Social Research, New York. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of...
- Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
2008 Kemal Derviş
Kemal Dervis
Kemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
- The Climate Change Challenge
2006 Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton
Angus Stewart Deaton is a leading microeconomist. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was a Foundation Scholar, and earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D...
- Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
2005 Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, USA, and former executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank. She co-founded CGD in November 2001 with C. Fred Bergsten and Edward W. Scott, Jr...
- The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
2004 Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik is a Turkish economist and Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, teaching in the School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and...
- Rethinking Growth Strategies
2003 Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who is currently the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and is also the C...
- Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms
2002 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Jeffrey G. Williamson
Jeffrey Gale Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin , Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow for the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He also...
- Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization
2001 Frances Stewart
Frances Stewart
Frances Julia Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity , University of Oxford. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American...
- Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development
2000 Jagdish N. Bhagwati - Globalization and Appropriate Governance
1999 A. B. Atkinson
Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, FBA, is a British economist and has been a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford since 2005.-Career:Atkinson served as Warden of Nuffield College from 1994 to 2005...
- Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus
1998 Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal . He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank...
- More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving Toward the Post-Washington Consensus
1997 Douglass C. North - The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem
Other activities
UNU-WIDER and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the area of climate change capacity building and research. Subsequently UNU-WIDER / AERC have jointly announced the PhD Research Internship Program, and the UNU-WIDER/AERC Visiting Scholars Programme.Ranking=
In 2010 UNU-WIDER was ranked as 7th best International Development Think Tank by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.
External links=
- Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Official Homepage