Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. Output for June includes five working papers, five PhD theses, two articles and one book chapter. We cover rare earths in low carbon technologies, leadership changes in the regional jet industry, and refugee return and remittances in Burundi, among many others. [NB: the images above lead to related papers.] Working Papers ‘An introduction to the economics of rare earths’ aims to examine the supply risk o...
Our press review features the latest publications by and on UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. Output for May includes 12 working papers, six articles, three reports, two books and one policy brief. We cover organic photovoltaics across three continents, innovation in India, investment in Africa, and migrant integration in eight cities around the world, among many others. NB: the images above lead to related papers. ‘Nanotechnology and Development: What’s in it for Emerging Coun...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, plus mentions in the media. Output for April includes five working papers, one journal article, one country report, and one report based on eight urban case studies. Our research spans the globe, covering migrant integration from the Americas to Asia, school programmes in rural Senegal, and the quality of Chinese scientific research, among many others. Please note that the images above are clickable and ...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, plus mentions in the media. Output for March includes 11 working papers, one discussion paper and one journal article. Our research spans the globe, covering exports and investments in Turkey, education and development in the Middle East, and rural entrepreneurship in Africa, among many others. Our researchers also featured in the Brussels-based Science|Business and the Dakar-based SudQuotidien. ‘Public ...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, as well as mentions in the media. Output for February includes nine working papers, a policy brief and a journal paper, covering among others things nanotech cancer therapies, semiconductor life cycles, and R&D constraints and patent quality. Our research spans the globe, covering more than 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and several more across Central and East Asia. ‘Political versus Economic In...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, as well as mentions in the media. Output for January consists of four working papers, one policy brief, one book and one book chapter. These cover quality innovation for development, international migration trends, sustainable energy transition, R&D effects on firm growth and user-based innovation, among various other topics. ‘User innovators and their influence on innovation activities of firm...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, as well as mentions in the media. Output for December consists of seven working papers, including the final overview of the AFD/Maastricht Graduate School of Governance study project on institutions and economic growth, and four PhD dissertations. These cover the place for migration in the post-2015 development agenda, the role of institutions in crises, the internationalization of Brazilian firms, and t...
Our press review features the latest publications by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance, as well as mentions in the media. Output for November includes seven working papers, two journal articles, a conference presentation, and a PhD thesis. These cover job creation in Africa, social protection in Cambodia, and tax reform in China, among others. We were also mentioned in the francophone press of Senegal, by Le Soleil and REWMI, following our high-level conference in Dakar on 25-26 November. A...