<div><strong>So you want to be a development researcher?</strong></div>

Which of the following topic(s) are you naturally drawn to? (Choose one or more)

Which of the following films would you be most likely to watch? (Choose one)

Which of the following books would you be most likely to pick up? (Choose one or more)

HOT TIP! You can download all of these books for free on the UNU-WIDER website

Inequality in the Developing World

Towards Gender Equity in Development

Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Building State Capability

Social mobility in developing countries

Mining for Change

Resurgent Asia

Fragility, Aid, and State-building

Which of these questions is most likely to keep you awake at night? (Choose one)

What is the extent of international corporate tax avoidance?

Why do some war-affected countries manage to establish politically stable governments, while others don’t?

Does development aid work?

Why have some countries been more effective than others in responding to the pandemic?

How do experiences of inequality differ between and across countries?

How do gender discriminatory social norms affect women’s economic opportunities?

As a researcher, you’d like to see your days being filled by… (Choose one or more)

Writing research papers

Collecting data in the ‘field’

Training government staff in developing countries

Presenting at academic conferences

Speaking to policy influencers around the world

Getting lost in a database

Which of these articles would you be most likely to read? (Choose one)

HOT TIP! You can find all of these blogs (and many more) on the UNU-WIDER website.

Coronavirus: five ways some states have used the pandemic to curtail human rights and democracy

Foreign aid can help stem the decline of democracy, if used in the right way

Why should I care about economic growth?

Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

Indonesia's huge fires and toxic haze will cause health problems for years to come

Good intentions falling short – the case of pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa

Populism in Brazil: how liberalisation and austerity led to the rise of Lula and Bolsonaro

Supply or demand? Exploring the mechanisms behind the rise of female labour force participation in Mexico

Who would you like to partner with for your research project? (Choose one or more)

Government agency in a developing country

Development agency or an NGO

University or a research institute

I prefer working on my own

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So you want to be a development researcher?