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Call for Expressions of Interest: Mobilizing Revenues from Extractive Industries for Children’s Rights and Well-Being
UNRISD invites expressions of interest from researchers to prepare papers for a new policy-relevant research project, Mobilizing Revenues from Extractive Industries: Protecting and Promoting Children’s Rights and Well-Being in Resource-Rich Countries, focusing on Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. ... more

Special Edition of the eBulletin on the SSE Conference Published
A special edition of the eBulletin on the UNRISD conference, Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarty Economy has been published.... more

50 Years of Research for Social Change—UNRISD 1963-2013
A new year marks a time for reflection. When the year is also a 50th anniversary it calls for longer pause – and for celebration. In August 1963 UNRISD was established through the inspiration of the first Nobel laureate in economics, Jan Tinbergen, and Gunnar Myrdal (1974 Nobel laureate). The vision of these leading economic thinkers of the day was that "development" – at the time largely defined by economic growth through planned capital accumulation, infrastructure investment and industrial modernization – was failing to take adequate account of social issues, and a concern that this failure could compromise the development project itself. ... more

Our Events

• Green Urbanization in Asia: Paradox or Win-Win Scenario?
  4 Jun 2013, UNOG Library, Library Events Room B-135
• The Human Rights Approach to Social Protection
  16 May 2013, D19, Palais des Nations
• Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy
  6 - 8 May 2013, GB Room and Room II, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland