Ecuador’s new ‘Vice-Minister, Technical Secretary for the Eradication of Poverty’, Andrés Mideros Mora, is an MPP alumnus and current PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT. In this brief interview, we ask how his studies in Maastricht helped his career, about the background to his role, and what he wants to achieve. — How has your time in Maastricht helped you? AMM: Both the MPP and PhD programmes have been key to this position. My Master’s thesis was related to multidimensional povert...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. Output for September includes 15 working papers, six journal articles, a research report and a PhD dissertation: covering productivity in services in Latin America and the Caribbean, the rise of biotechnology in agricultural innovation, and the current state of innovation indicators, among many others. Journal Articles ‘Weak Links and the Management of Reputational Interdependencies‘ takes ac...