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Avenyo, Elvis, Maty Konte & Pierre Mohnen, 2021, Product innovation and informal market competition in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31: 605-637, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00688-2, More information
Loschmann, Craig & Katrin Marchand, 2021, The labor market reintegration of returned refugees in Afghanistan, Small Business Economics, 56: 1033-1045, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00315-w, More information
Pietrobelli, Carlo, 2021, Industrial and Innovation Policies in a World of Global Value Chains, in: K. Lee K., J.D. Lee, S. Radosevic, D. Meissner and N. Vonortas, The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-Up in Emerging Economies, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Wang, Lili & Zexia Li, 2021, Knowledge flows from public science to industrial technologies, Journal of Technology Transfer, 46(4): 1232-1255, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-019-09738-9, More information
Reinold, Julia, 2020, The perceived impact of COVID-19 on the employment of (international) workers at Dutch SMEs, Research report commissioned by the the Maastricht Expat Centre, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Beatriz Rodríguez & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2020, Rethinking Multidimensional Poverty through a Multi-Criteria Analysis, Economic Modelling, 91: 313-325, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.06.007, More information
Gassmann, Franziska & Eszter Timar, 2020, Position Paper on Targeting Options for Social Assistance Programme for Poor Families with Children, Report commissioned by UNICEF Kyrgyzstan, More information
Gassmann, Franziska, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Andres Mideros Mora & Eszter Timar, 2020, Multidimensional poverty assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic, Report commissioned by UNICEF Kyrgyzstan, More information
Gassmann, Franziska, Eszter Timar, Tamara A. Kool, Zina Nimeh, Teresa Janz & et al., 2020, Jordan Country Report on Out of School Children, report commissioned by UNICEF Jordan, More information
Gassmann, Franziska, Chen Gong & Eszter Timar, 2020, Review of statistical tools to assess the number, characteristics and working conditions of digital platform workers, Report commissioned by ILO
Siegel, Melissa, 2020, Remittances and Repercussions, in: Sirkeci, I. and Cohen, J, Human Mobility and the Pandemic, Transnational Press London, London
Pan, Xia, Wenyin Cheng, Yuning Gao, Baležentis Tomas & Zhiyang Shen, 2020, Is environmental regulation effective in promoting the quantity and quality of green innovation?, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28: 6232-6241, DOI: https://doi.org/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-020-10984-w
Cheng, Wenyin, Zhusong Yang, Xia Pan, Baležentis Tomas & Xueli Chen, 2020, Evolution of Carbon Shadow Prices in China’s Industrial Sector during 2003–2017: A By-Production Approach, Sustainability, 12(722): 1-14, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020722, More information
Carmen, Giselle, Ana Karen Diaz Mendez & Marta Ruiz Arranz, Oct 2020, A un clic de la transición: Economía digital en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana, This report presents an overview of the digital economy in the Central American region. In particular, in the study, we describe the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the evolution of revenues and users in the digital economy in the region, DOI: https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002718
De Groot, R., Franziska Gassmann & et al., 2020, Regional landscape analysis of trends and drivers and determinants of young children’s diets in Latin America and the Caribbean, Report commissioned by UNICEF LACRO
Konte, Maty & Emmanuel Buadi Mensah, 2020, Mapping Paper for "Work and income for young men and women in Africa; a political economy and social equity approach to the employment potential of specific sectors and sub-sectors in African economies’, Overview of current research initiatives in this field, the methodology and data used, the African countries currently covered in the existing studies and the experts and institutes who are involved in these different projects. In addition, the mapping highlights
the knowledge gaps on structural economic transformation/change and income and productive employment for youth and women that need to be filled to inform policies that will help African countries to prepare for an inclusive 4th industrial revolution
Cleton, Laura, 2020, Book Review: Deported Americans: Life after deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Book Review: Deported Americans: Life after deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12348., More information
Cleton, Laura, Sep 2020, Book Review: Policing Undocumented Migrants. Law, Violence and Responsibility, Border Criminologies, Review of Policing Undocumented Migrants. Law, Violence and Responsibility by Louise Boon-Kuo (Routledge, 2018), More information
Schweitzer, Reinhard & Laura Cleton, Aug 2020, How counsellors convince asylum seekers to accept ‘voluntary return’, Rejected asylum seekers are often told they can be deported or go home willingly. But are these really the only options?, More information
Cleton, Laura & Reinhard Schweitzer, Jun 2020, Roundtable on Refugee Aspirations: The refugees who dare to aspire, Refugees dream about their future in order to give shape and meaning to their journeys, yet this often counts against them in public discourse, More information
Wehner, Caroline, Andries de Grip & Harald Pfeifer, 2020, Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733, More information
Schönfeld, Gudrun, Felix Wenzelmann, Harald Pfeifer, Paula Risius & Caroline Wehner, 2020, Training in Germany – An Investment to Counter the Skilled Worker Shortage. Results of rnthe 2017/18 BIBB Cost-Benefit Survey, BIBB Report No. 3, More information
Cleton, Laura, 2020, Meelopen met de regievoerders
Over de grenzen van participeren en observeren in terugkeertrajecten van ongedocumenteerde migranten, KWALON, 25(1), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/2020.025.001.004, More information
Cleton, Laura & Reinhard Schweitzer, 2020, Using or inducing return aspirations? On the role of return counsellors in the implementation of 'assisted voluntary return' policies in Austria and the Netherlands, IMI Working Papers, Amsterdam, More information
Cleton, Laura & Sébastien Chauvin, 2020, Performing freedom in the Dutch deportation regime: bureaucratic persuasion and the enforcement of ‘voluntary return’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(1): 297-313, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1593819, More information
Laar, Mindel van de , Nov 2020, PhD alumni tips: Make consistent progress, keep your connections and have regular reality checks, UNU-MERIT Alumni Watch, Blog on the learnings from alumni sessions, More information
Laar, Mindel van de , Fernanda Soares & Kirsten Galisson, 2020, A Typology of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) for Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case study of Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Nigeria, African Journal of Teacher Education, 9(2): 110-143, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21083/ajote.v9i2.6271
Burlacu de Paoli, Irina, S. Soare & D. Vintila, 2020, Migrants' access to social protection in Romania, in: J.-M. Lafleur & D. Vintila (Eds.), Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (vol. 1): comparing access to welfare entitlements, Springer, Cham, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51241-5, More information
Walczyk, Julia, 2020, EU Politics Series #1: The EU Multi-level Governance in Cohesion Policy: Why does the EESC’s role matter ?, Mosaïek Magazine, More information
Walczyk, Julia, 2020, EU Politics Series #2: The Reduction of Regional Disparities within the European Union: (Un)successful Story of Cohesion Policy ?, Mosaïek Magazine, More information
Walczyk, Julia, 2020, EU Politics Series #3: The European Education Area 2025: Why Does It Matter ? What Is It Missing ? How To Make Better Use of EU Funding ?, Mosaïek Magazine, More information
Lema, Rasmus, Xiaolan Fu & Roberta Rabellotti, 2020, Green windows of opportunity: Latecomer development in the age of transformation toward sustainability, Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(5): 1193-1209, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa044, More information
Skeldon, Ronald, 2020, Skilled migration, in: T. Bastia and R. Skeldon (eds), Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge, London, More information
Bastia, Tanja & Ronald Skeldon, 2020, Introduction, in: T. Bastia and R. Skeldon (eds), Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge, London, More information
Bastia, Tanja & Ronald Skeldon (eds.), 2020, Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge, London, More information
Sirimanne, Shamika N. & Clovis Freire Junior, May 2020, How science, technology and innovation can help build resilience to multiple shocks, UNCTAD
Freire Junior, Clovis, 2020, Science, technology and innovation policy review (STIP Review) of Ethiopia, UNCTAD, United Nations, Gevena, More information
Freire Junior, Clovis, 2020, Mapping TradeTech: Trade in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, More information
Freire Junior, Clovis, 2020, The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in Building Resilient Communities, Including Through the Contribution of Citizen Science, UNCTAD. Geneva, More information
Bedea, Claudia & Victor Osei Kwadwo, 2020, Opportunistic Sub-Regionalism: The dialectics of EU- Central-Eastern European relations, Journal of European Integration, 43: 385-402, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2020.1776271, More information
Asylbek kyzy, Gulzhan, Caroline Delgado & Gary Milante, May 2020, Gaps Report: Challenges of counting all violent deaths everywhere, The project funded by the UK Aid, More information
Gethmann, Carl Friedrich, Georg Kamp, Michèle Knodt, Wolfgang Kröger, Christian Streffer, Hans von Storch & Thomas Ziesemer (eds.), 2020, Global Energy Supply and Emissions, Springer, Cham, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55355-5, More information
Arruda, Pedro, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Charlotte Bilo, Isabella Franciscon & Wesley Silva, Jun 2020, Overview of non-contributory social protection programmes in South Asia from a child and equity perspective, Report comissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Fabio Veras Soares, Nicolo Bird, Beatriz Burattini & Elise Chretien, Oct 2020, Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, policy responses and the missing middle in South Asia, Report commissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Dec 2020, Pakistan’s social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the adequacy of Ehsaas Emergency Cash and the road ahead, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), Brasilia, Brazil, IPC-IG Working Paper No. 188, More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Mar 2020, Divide to Conquer? Latent Preference Types and Country-level Heterogeneity, Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom, CSAE Working Paper, More information
Ahmed, Musa Hasen , 2020, Households’ willingness to pay for soil conservation on communal lands: application of the contingent valuation method in north eastern Ethiopia, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63(12): 2227-2245, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1717933, More information
McCann, P. & Luc Soete, 2020, Place-based innovation for sustainability, European Commission, Sevilla, JRC Working Paper, More information
Soete, Luc, 2020, Is Innovation Always Good for You? New Policy Challenges for Research and Innovation, in: Von Schomberg, R. and J. Hankins (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation | A Global Resource, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, More information