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Director @UNUWIDER. Views are my own.
https://patriciajustino.net/
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
1 day ago
In her first blog post as Director of UNU-WIDER Dr
@apvjustino.bsky.social
emphasizes that in times of global fragmentation, independent and policy-relevant research becomes more valuable, not less.
go.unu.edu/W0Nei
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
3 days ago
At the LDC Future Forum 2026 in Helsinki, UNU-WIDER Director
@apvjustino.bsky.social
closed three days of dialogue on youth and sustainable development in least developed countries (LDCs), calling for evidence-based policy, real economic opportunity, and stronger trust in institutions.
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
20 days ago
We are pleased to announce that Prof
@apvjustino.bsky.social
has officially started her tenure as Director of UNU-WIDER. We look forward to seeing UNU-WIDER continue to thrive under her leadership
go.unu.edu/fuKM2
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Patricia Justino
United Nations University
24 days ago
UNU is pleased to announce that Professor
@apvjustino.bsky.social
has begun her term as Director of
@unu-wider.bsky.social
, bringing over two decades of experience conducting policy-relevant research on inequality, governance and inclusive development. Learn more:
buff.ly/XNfuxxe
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Patricia Justino
United Nations University
3 months ago
From Gaza to Sudan, communities are famished to the point of desperation. History has shown that the consequences of famine are not borne only by immediate victims but also by future generations. Read blog post by
@unu-wider.bsky.social
Director Designate
@apvjustino.bsky.social
:
go.unu.edu/RA7c8
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
5 months ago
As we close our 40th year, we reflect on UNU-WIDERâs legacy and look to future. Director Designate
@apvjustino.bsky.social
reminds us of the task ahead: harnessing shared knowledge to improve lives in an uncertain world. Learn more about the work we do:
go.unu.edu/XR6Xh
#WIDER40
#2025recap
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
5 months ago
How do violent pasts shape democratic politics decades later? A new Broadstreet blog by
@laiabalcells.bsky.social
,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
and
@andrearuggeri.bsky.social
dives into findings from the Comparative Political Studies special issue. Read more:
go.unu.edu/fc9rP
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Patricia Justino
Laia Balcells
5 months ago
First time writing for Broadstreet blog! With
@apvjustino.bsky.social
and
@andrearuggeri.bsky.social
, we wrote about the Special Issue just published at Comparative Political Studies:
www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-o...
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Legacies of Repression: How Europeâs Violent 20th Century Still Shapes Its Politics
by Laia Balcells, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Ruggeri
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-of-repression-how-europes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3737809&post_id=182270614&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1d4vq9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Simone Cremaschi
5 months ago
A great overview of a great special issue, including our paper on the legacies of antifascist resistance in Italy. Thank you again
@laiabalcells.bsky.social
@apvjustino.bsky.social
@andrearuggeri.bsky.social
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
6 months ago
Food security is vital for dignity, equality, and peace, yet itâs often compromised in conflict settings. On today's
#HumanRightsDay
, we explore how hunger and conflict create a damaging cycle. Read this blog by
@apvjustino.bsky.social
:
go.unu.edu/Y0Y4d
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
7 months ago
The
#SocialSummit2025
is live in Doha! đ⨠Catch us at the our booth to discuss inequality, social protection, and building trust. đSolutions Square, hall 6, QNCC Donât miss our Solutions Session with UN DESA and Government of Finland tomorrow:
go.unu.edu/hfQhS
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
7 months ago
Yesterday at
#SocialSummit2025
, UNU-WIDER and UN DESA, supported by the Government of Finland, co-hosted the Solutions Session "Trust as the Foundation for Social Development."
@apvjustino.bsky.social
highlighted that 60% of people globally struggle, with many households one shock away from poverty.
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
7 months ago
đ˝ď¸ "Fragility is an issue that affects all of us." At
@fiia.fi
event on the crisis in global development,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
warned that most of the worldâs extreme poor live in conflict-affected countries, and cutting aid risks deepening both poverty and instability.
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Patricia Justino
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
7 months ago
Today's seminar focused on the decline of global development and possible ways forward. The speakers discussed topics such as the role of global aid in mitigating human suffering, states' justifications for withdrawing from global development, and the interdependence between poverty and conflict.
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
7 months ago
At
@ifpri.org
Policy Seminar,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
and Maria Eugenia Genoni (World Bank) showed that global poverty is increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Breaking the poverty-fragility trap needs better investing, managing, and measuring. Watch:
go.unu.edu/gImJP
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International Food Policy Research Institute
8 months ago
đ October 17â°9:30AM EDT đ Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa đ¤ Organized by IFPRI and partners on the margins of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings đŹ
@lflopezcalva.bsky.social
@apvjustino.bsky.social
@anamibanez.bsky.social
@jo-swinnen.bsky.social
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bit.ly/Poverty-
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
8 months ago
@apvjustino.bsky.social
is at Fragile Lives 2025 in Berlin! Tomorrow, her keynote discusses the global erosion of trustâin institutions, in democracy, and interpersonallyâand what this means for social cohesion and governance in fragile contexts. Learn more:
go.unu.edu/XxaSa
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Patricia Justino
Laia Balcells
9 months ago
New publication alert: "Legacies of Repression and Resistance in Early 20th Century Europe", at Comparative Political Studies. With
@andrearuggeri.bsky.social
and
@apvjustino.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Legacies of Repression and Resistance in Early 20th Century Europe - Andrea Ruggeri, Laia Balcells, Patricia Justino, 2025
Authoritarian and violent experiences affect the institutional settings of post-dictatorial regimes. However, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge on how loc...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140251369315
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Patricia Justino
United Nations University
9 months ago
đ A recent survey reveals declining faith in democracy among European youth. To earn back young people's trust, "[d]emocracy must prove it can deliver tangible results," writes
@apvjustino.bsky.social
, Deputy Director of
@unu-wider.bsky.social
. Read more:
go.unu.edu/fWQba
#UNUYouthMonth
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Iâm honoured to have been appointed the next Director of UNU-WIDER starting May 2026. WIDER has long been a beacon of rigorous, policy-relevant research on pressing global challenges. Leading this remarkable institution is both a privilege and a responsibility I take on with deep commitment.
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UNU-WIDER : Professor Patricia Justino Appointed as Next Director of UNU-WIDER
Tokyo and Helsinki, 8 August 2025
http://www.wider.unu.edu/news/professor-patricia-justino-appointed-next-director-unu-wider
10 months ago
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
10 months ago
đ˘ New Policy Brief: How to make aid work in fragile states Aid in fragile contexts needs more than technical fixes. The brief calls for long-term, flexible support rooted in local legitimacy. đ:
go.unu.edu/pTvBB
#FragileAid
@apvjustino.bsky.social
@rgisselquist.bsky.social
@anvaccaro.bsky.social
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Patricia Justino
abbey steele
10 months ago
Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in BogotĂĄ, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2
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UNU-WIDER
11 months ago
Thatâs a wrap! đŹ The 2025
#WIDERDevConf
brought bold ideas on how inclusive social protection can drive growth, trust & equity. From tax justice to climate resilience, one thing is clear: we canât afford to go without it. Catch the highlights đ
go.unu.edu/n7DCj
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
đ Global trust is in crisis A new WIDER Working Paper by
@apvjustino.bsky.social
and Melissa Samarin reveals how declining trust in governments and between people is weakening the social fabric in countries around the world. đ Read the paper:
go.unu.edu/LqJgS...
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
The period 2020-2023 has been the most violent in 30 years. The current international financial architecture often neglects security needs in fragile countries.
@apvjustino.bsky.social
calls for⯠tailored, long-term financial engagementâŻthat supports peacebuilding.
go.unu.edu/zMGy5
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
đ˘ Join us on 24 April at 12PM EDT for the launch of
#UNDESA
World Social Report 2025, co-produced for the first time with UNU-WIDER! The event includes a presentation by UNU-WIDER Deputy Director
@apvjustino.bsky.social
, key report findings, and audience Q&A. Register here đ
go.unu.edu/xDRmk
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World Social Report 2025: A New Policy Consensus to Accelerate Social Progress
https://go.unu.edu/xDRmk
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
đ Why does 40% of the world feel life is worse now than 50 years ago? Insecurity and distrust are key issues.
@apvjustino.bsky.social
& Marta Roig discuss urgent insights from the UN DESA World Social Report 2025. đ Watch:
go.unu.edu/mPQ2d
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
Today, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with an Evening Exchange co-hosted with our long-term partner ZIPAR. In a panel on Zambiaâs debt and development challenges,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
underlined: âIt cannot be a trade-off between fiscal reform and investing in people.â
go.unu.edu/kmJTu
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Patricia Justino
Tilman BrĂźck
about 1 year ago
Our keynote speakers will be Patricia Justino
@apvjustino.bsky.social
, Deputy Director of the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland, and Amber Peterman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 5/6
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop â HiCN
30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou
https://hicn.org/call-for-papers-fragile-lives-2025-hicn-workshop
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
At a UN DESA event, our Deputy Director
@apvjustino.bsky.social
joined global leaders, including AntĂłnio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, to discuss new evidence from the World Social Report 2025 and the future of social development:
go.unu.edu/mPQ2d
#SocialSummit2025
#EveryoneIncluded
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Patricia Justino
Tanya Bandula-Irwin
about 1 year ago
Spent the last two days in deep conversation about tax and conflict with this brilliant group in Helsinki,
@unu-wider.bsky.social
. More on our meeting and work here!
www.wider.unu.edu/event/tax-co...
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Patricia Justino
Florian Weigand
about 1 year ago
Much food for thought after a productive workshop on armed group taxation at
@unu-wider.bsky.social
with a fantastic crowd,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
,
@maxgallien.bsky.social
,
@ashleyajackson.bsky.social
,
@tbandulairwin.bsky.social
,
@yguichaoua.bsky.social
,
@jessietrudeau.bsky.social
and many more.
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Patricia Justino
UNU-WIDER
about 1 year ago
The calls for reform of the international financial architecture are many and multifaceted What better way to understand what is on the global financing for development agenda than to read Prof Jose Antonio Ocampo's latest book! This book is open access
go.unu.edu/7Yb7T
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Patricia Justino
Duncan Green
about 1 year ago
'forcing the worldâs poor to pay for Britainâs safety'. Brilliant and brutal Guardian editorial about UK's decision to redirect aid to defence. Must read.
chakrabortty.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Starmerâs aid cuts: they wonât buy security, but they will undermine it | Editorial
Editorial: Labourâs âpragmatismâ isnât neutral â it locks the party into fiscal caution, reinforcing stagnation and fuelling the very instability it seeks to avoid
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/25/the-guardian-view-on-starmers-aid-cuts-they-wont-buy-security-but-they-will-undermine-it
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Patricia Justino
UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre
over 1 year ago
@bmartorano.bsky.social
,
@apvjustino.bsky.social
,
@maastrichtu.bsky.social
,
@ununiversity.bsky.social
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This is not just about the shutdown of USAID. When are governments going to realise that reductions in development aid are shortsighted policies that in the end will hurt is all?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Be clear about what Trump and Muskâs aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UNâs special envoy for global e...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-elon-musk-usaid-poverty-america?CMP=share_btn_url
over 1 year ago
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Guy Grossman
over 1 year ago
The experiment we are about to to live through is because two businessmen are convinced that what makes the USA great is its the private sector, not understanding there are no functioning markets without functioning public institutions.
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The eastern DRC war could reshape the region
open.substack.com/pub/continen...
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The eastern DRC war could reshape the region
Even as the conflict escalates, regional powers look to seize an economic opportunity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/continent/p/the-eastern-drc-war-could-reshape?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
over 1 year ago
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Scott Hadland, MD
over 1 year ago
Amid todayâs massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more
#NIH
#MedSky
#research
#science
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peterkwells
over 1 year ago
This is a good long read on the challenges around ONS & UK national stats Wld emphasise this bit on how ONS are finding it harder than originally thought to get access to - & use - admin data across govt & have realised that census will still need an actual survey
www.ft.com/content/dd55...
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Charles Kenny
over 1 year ago
Just to repeat, the White House has provided *no evidence* to back up the Presidentâs claim of widespread fraud in USAID. The evidence it has presented points in precisely the other direction.
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
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The White House Demonstrates USAIDâs Efficiency
The White House issued a press release three days ago apparently designed to justify the ongoing stop-work orders at USAID, alongside pulling agency staff out of the field and locking them out of thei...
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/white-house-demonstrates-usaids-efficiency
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Michael Clemens
over 1 year ago
Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.
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Patricia Justino
Justin Sandefur
over 1 year ago
Trump suspends U.S. foreign aid for 90 days, saying aid is âantithetical to American valuesâ and serves to âdestabilize world peace.â
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-aid-9f5336e84c45a6e782fa95f60a919f47
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A great opportunity for early career scholars.. Apply below
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Patricia Justino
Justin Sandefur
over 1 year ago
New
@cgdev.org
policy paper: *MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out. We examine why, and how to go faster. đ§ľ
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Patricia Justino
Macartan Humphreys
over 1 year ago
To share: Come join us! Two AP positions Trinity College Dublin in Comparative politics and IR. Great city, wonderful department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a...
@tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Political Science on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/assistant-professor-in-political-science
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Daniela Scur
over 1 year ago
We are hiring predocs!! Come join us:
cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
#econsky
PLEASE RT!
@aaronsojourner.org
what was the version of @econ_ra here again? Sorry I forgot!
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER), Cornell University
CIDER: The Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER) is a new cross-campus venture at Cornell University encompassing 23 faculty from multiple units across the Cor...
https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Main-Campus/Pre-Doctoral-Fellow--Cornell-Collaborative-for-International-Development-Economics-Research--CIDER---Cornell-University_WDR-00050175-1
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Patricia Justino
Rodrigo Oliveira
over 1 year ago
đ¨đ¨New working paperđ¨đ¨
@apvjustino.bsky.social
@kallehi.bsky.social
and I were leading an 18 months program:
www.wider.unu.edu/project/stre...
. 14 WP will be published by Jan-25. One of the outputs is a review of the literature on social assistance during crises
www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
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Patricia Justino
Dotan Haim
over 1 year ago
#ConflictSky
Note: ESOC "will cover travel expenses for presenters" to travel to Taipei!!
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Patricia Justino
Sebastian van Baalen
over 1 year ago
Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague!
@uupeace.bsky.social
is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here âĄď¸
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
and here âĄď¸
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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