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🚨🚨🚨 Does austerity impact political participation by changing people’s preferences for redistribution? Answer: yes, they do! Our paper (w/ Patricia Justino and @laura_metzger_) is now forthcoming - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics! A 🧵: shorturl.at/mqGwd

Super excited to see this paper in print @ Journal of Conflict Resolution! Hugest thanks to UNU-WIDER Patricia Justino for supporting this project 🙂 Full paper avail here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UQMH2WX…

🚨New Working Paper 🚨📄🦗 Plague, war, and exodus? The effects of desert locust swarms on migration intentions in Yemen wider.unu.edu/publication/pl… from research during a visiting fellowship UNU-WIDER last year

I am hiring a new postdoc to work on various projects on conflict UNU-WIDER. This is a great opportunity for promising young economists or political scientists just finishing or finished their PhD. Apply here 👇 Research Associate (PSA) – Conflict wider.unu.edu/opportunity/re…

Today is the International Day of Peace! 🕊 The New Agenda for Peace urges stronger action for peace. This is imperative in Fragile or Conflict-affected States (FCS). Patricia Justino discusses poverty in FCS at the #UNGA79 side event: go.unu.edu/bsvW4 @worldbank G20 South Africa

About 700M people live in extreme poverty on less than $2.15 a day. In a dialogue hosted by 🇧🇷 G20 Presidency & World Bank, we explored strengthening our commitment to advancing action to eradicate poverty & boost shared prosperity on a livable planet amid today’s polycrisis.

It was an honor to participate in this discussion. Congratulations to Luis Felipe López-Calva and his fantastic team World Bank for a much needed start to the conversation. Thank you Axel van Trotsenburg, Minister Wellington Dias, Rebeca Grynspan & Achim Steiner for a great discussion. UNU-WIDER

Delighted to pre-launch in New York the World Bank report “Poverty, Prosperity, and Livable Planet: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis”, an analysis offering the first postpandemic assessment of global progress while exploring potential pathways out of the polycrisis. Special

It was a privilege to co-host and moderate this dialogue on financial architecture reform with Ministers Dodds (UK) and Tavio (FIN), William Roos and GC’s Friederike Roder. All agreed: Alliances and coalitions are the bedrock of this reform effort.

Thank you UNU-WIDER and Patricia Justino for being such great partners with UN University Centre for Policy Research on this work.

Ideas in the discussion are reflected in a new UNU-CPR report co-authored with Patricia Justino of UNU-WIDER: collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9822…

A fantastic event on the reform of the international financial architecture chaired by the always impressive David Passarelli. Joint by UN University UN University Centre for Policy Research UNU-WIDER Global Citizen Impact MFA Finland 🇫🇮

Our Deputy Director Patricia Justino and David Passarelli, Director UN University Centre for Policy Research were present at a Global Citizen ⭕ #UNGA side event on the reform of the International Financial Architecture. More in a recent report: go.unu.edu/s1ENy MFA Finland 🇫🇮

The Fragile lives conference also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Households in conflict network that uses micro-level evidence to bring forth the civilian point of view of peace and conlict: hicn.org #WIDERpeace @tilmanbrueck Patricia Justino

#Jobs4Dev starting tomorrow! Important themes in employment, job creation, and economic development. Sign up for the livestream: shorturl.at/jcSZj The conference is co-organized with World Bank, International Labour Organization, Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), IBS Warsaw, and HKUST IEMS with the support of GIZ.

New paper w/ Santiago Tobón Martin Vanegas-Arias and Juan Vargas. Illicit economies explain to a large extent challenges of establishing a tax base UNU-WIDER Norad Concealed costs: illicit economies and the erosion of the local tax base in Colombia wider.unu.edu/publication/co…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Taxes are vital for development, especilly after conflict. What are the challenges in increasing tax revenues amid violence and illicit economic activities? Find out in this paper by Patricia Justino, Santiago Tobón, Martin Vanegas-Arias #WIDERAlumni & Juan Vargas: go.unu.edu/6FI8f

The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. Here are 5 consequences of ignoring the conflicts across the world: go.unu.edu/Ynrob Piece by Patricia Justino, Laura Saavedra-Lux, Samira Diebire published in The Conversation

Patricia Justino Laura Saavedra-Lux Samira Diebire The Conversation How and why do violent conflicts persist, and what can be done to reduce the risk and impact of violence? Explore insights from our 'Institutional legacies of violent conflict' here: go.unu.edu/X9zC8