Economic growth

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.

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Event

The road to 1.3T: the Baku to Belém roadmap

Aligning climate finance with real economy needs and demographic realities.

Conference

Yale food security conference: lessons for global economic governance

How emerging economies, multilateral institutions and geopolitics continue to shape - and strain - the global food system.

Symposium

Rethinking global debt: reforming the international financial architecture

UNU-CPR experts joined the Helsinki Symposium to chart practical, politically viable solutions for a more equitable global financial system.

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Press Release

New UN Report Warns of Global Social Crisis Driven by Insecurity, Inequality and Distrust

The World Social Report calls for a new policy consensus anchored in equity, economic security for all and solidarity.

25 Apr 2025

Media Coverage

Rating agencies don't treat the Global South fairly

In The Conversation Daniel Cash explains how credit rating agencies wield outsized power over the financial futures of developing nations.

25 Apr 2025

Workshop

YSI Workshop on Structural Change, Inequality, and Growth

A two-day Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Workshop hosted by UNU-MERIT

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