Full name and acronym: United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Funding date: UNU-WIDER is a research and training centre of the United Nations University, established in Helsinki, Finland, in 1985.

Objectives: The mission of the United Nations University is "to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States". Through its activities UNU-WIDER seeks to raise unconventional and frontier issues and to provide insights and policy advice aimed at improving economic development, particularly in the poorest nations.

Main projects in globalisation studies: UNU-WIDER projects include: Millennium Development Goals; Building African Capacity for Policy Simulation; Development Aid; Hunger and Food Security; Global Trends in Inequality and Poverty; Inequality and Poverty in China; Reconstruction in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies; The Impact of Globalization on the World’s Poor; Institutions for Economic Development; Financial Sector Development for Growth and Poverty Reduction.

Outputs: The United Nations University Web site is: www.unu.edu. UNU-WIDER research output is published in its working paper and discussion paper series, policy briefs (available on the UNU-WIDER web site at www.wider.unu.edu), books published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and UNU press, and special issues of academic journals.

Director: UNU Rector: Professor Hans J. A. van Ginkel. UNU-WIDER Director: Professor Anthony Shorrocks

Street address: Katajanokanlaituri 6B FIN-00160 Helsinki, Finland.

tel: ++358-9-615-9911

fax: ++358-9 615 99 333

email: wider@wider.unu.edu

website: www.wider.unu.edu