New paper series on global challenges

The Global Challenges working paper series is a joint initiative by UiB Global and the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty to disseminate research in its early stages related to global challenges, such as poverty, inequality, sustainability and other relevant cross-disciplinary development issues.

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Editor of this peer reviewed open access series is Dr Andy Sumner of King's College, London. The series is made available through the Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) at the University of Bergen.

Find out more about the working papers series and how you can propose a paper.

The first paper in the series, entitled "Global Inequality and Global Poverty since the Cold War: How robust is the optimistic narrative?" is written by Andy Sumner and Peter Edward of the Newcastle University Business School. The paper is relevant for academics, students of development studies, policy makers in international agencies.