Patricia Justino
@apvjustino.bsky.social
Deputy Director @UNUWIDER and Professorial Fellow @IDS_UK (on leave). Views are my own.
https://patriciajustino.net/
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The #SocialSummit2025 is live in Doha! 🌍✨
Catch us at the our booth to discuss inequality, social protection, and building trust.
📍Solutions Square, hall 6, QNCC
Don’t miss our Solutions Session with UN DESA and Government of Finland tomorrow: go.unu.edu/hfQhS
@apvjustino.bsky.social
Catch us at the our booth to discuss inequality, social protection, and building trust.
📍Solutions Square, hall 6, QNCC
Don’t miss our Solutions Session with UN DESA and Government of Finland tomorrow: go.unu.edu/hfQhS
@apvjustino.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The #SocialSummit2025 is live in Doha! 🌍✨
Catch us at the our booth to discuss inequality, social protection, and building trust.
📍Solutions Square, hall 6, QNCC
Don’t miss our Solutions Session with UN DESA and Government of Finland tomorrow: go.unu.edu/hfQhS
@apvjustino.bsky.social
Catch us at the our booth to discuss inequality, social protection, and building trust.
📍Solutions Square, hall 6, QNCC
Don’t miss our Solutions Session with UN DESA and Government of Finland tomorrow: go.unu.edu/hfQhS
@apvjustino.bsky.social
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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📽️ "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 world’s extreme poor live in conflict-affected countries, and cutting aid risks deepening both poverty and instability.
At @fiia.fi event on the crisis in global development, @apvjustino.bsky.social warned that most of the world’s extreme poor live in conflict-affected countries, and cutting aid risks deepening both poverty and instability.
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📽️ "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 world’s extreme poor live in conflict-affected countries, and cutting aid risks deepening both poverty and instability.
At @fiia.fi event on the crisis in global development, @apvjustino.bsky.social warned that most of the world’s extreme poor live in conflict-affected countries, and cutting aid risks deepening both poverty and instability.
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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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
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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📅October 17⏰9:30AM EDT
📌 Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa
🤝 Organized by IFPRI and partners on the margins of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings
💬 @lflopezcalva.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @anamibanez.bsky.social @jo-swinnen.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Poverty-
📌 Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa
🤝 Organized by IFPRI and partners on the margins of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings
💬 @lflopezcalva.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @anamibanez.bsky.social @jo-swinnen.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Poverty-
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📅October 17⏰9:30AM EDT
📌 Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa
🤝 Organized by IFPRI and partners on the margins of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings
💬 @lflopezcalva.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @anamibanez.bsky.social @jo-swinnen.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Poverty-
📌 Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa
🤝 Organized by IFPRI and partners on the margins of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings
💬 @lflopezcalva.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @anamibanez.bsky.social @jo-swinnen.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/Poverty-
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@apvjustino.bsky.social is at Fragile Lives 2025 in Berlin!
Tomorrow, her keynote discusses the global erosion of trust—in institutions, in democracy, and interpersonally—and what this means for social cohesion and governance in fragile contexts.
Learn more: go.unu.edu/XxaSa
Tomorrow, her keynote discusses the global erosion of trust—in institutions, in democracy, and interpersonally—and what this means for social cohesion and governance in fragile contexts.
Learn more: go.unu.edu/XxaSa
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@apvjustino.bsky.social is at Fragile Lives 2025 in Berlin!
Tomorrow, her keynote discusses the global erosion of trust—in institutions, in democracy, and interpersonally—and what this means for social cohesion and governance in fragile contexts.
Learn more: go.unu.edu/XxaSa
Tomorrow, her keynote discusses the global erosion of trust—in institutions, in democracy, and interpersonally—and what this means for social cohesion and governance in fragile contexts.
Learn more: go.unu.edu/XxaSa
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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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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...
journals.sagepub.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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💭 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
Read more: go.unu.edu/fWQba
#UNUYouthMonth
August 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
💭 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
Read more: go.unu.edu/fWQba
#UNUYouthMonth
I’m 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.
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.
UNU-WIDER : Professor Patricia Justino Appointed as Next Director of UNU-WIDER
Tokyo and Helsinki, 8 August 2025
www.wider.unu.edu
August 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I’m 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.
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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📢 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.
📄: go.unu.edu/pTvBB
#FragileAid @apvjustino.bsky.social @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social
Aid in fragile contexts needs more than technical fixes. The brief calls for long-term, flexible support rooted in local legitimacy.
📄: go.unu.edu/pTvBB
#FragileAid @apvjustino.bsky.social @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📢 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.
📄: go.unu.edu/pTvBB
#FragileAid @apvjustino.bsky.social @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social
Aid in fragile contexts needs more than technical fixes. The brief calls for long-term, flexible support rooted in local legitimacy.
📄: go.unu.edu/pTvBB
#FragileAid @apvjustino.bsky.social @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social
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Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, 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
"On June 7...Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot multiple times," write Juan Masullo and Abbey Steele. "The attempted assassination...has rocked Colombia, a country where such political violence feels all too familiar."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
How Drug Wars Destroy Democracy | Journal of Democracy
Colombia’s drug war has ravaged the country — leaving tens of thousands dead, disappeared, or displaced and entire communities broken. Democracy is among the casualties.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, 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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That’s a wrap! 💬
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 can’t afford to go without it.
Catch the highlights 👉 go.unu.edu/n7DCj
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 can’t afford to go without it.
Catch the highlights 👉 go.unu.edu/n7DCj
June 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
That’s a wrap! 💬
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 can’t afford to go without it.
Catch the highlights 👉 go.unu.edu/n7DCj
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 can’t afford to go without it.
Catch the highlights 👉 go.unu.edu/n7DCj
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📉 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.
📄 Read the paper: go.unu.edu/LqJgS...
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.
📄 Read the paper: go.unu.edu/LqJgS...
May 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📉 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.
📄 Read the paper: go.unu.edu/LqJgS...
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.
📄 Read the paper: go.unu.edu/LqJgS...
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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 engagement that supports peacebuilding. go.unu.edu/zMGy5
@apvjustino.bsky.social calls for tailored, long-term financial engagement that supports peacebuilding. go.unu.edu/zMGy5
April 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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 engagement that supports peacebuilding. go.unu.edu/zMGy5
@apvjustino.bsky.social calls for tailored, long-term financial engagement that supports peacebuilding. go.unu.edu/zMGy5
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📢 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 👉 go.unu.edu/xDRmk
The event includes a presentation by UNU-WIDER Deputy Director @apvjustino.bsky.social, key report findings, and audience Q&A.
Register here 👉 go.unu.edu/xDRmk
World Social Report 2025: A New Policy Consensus to Accelerate Social Progress
go.unu.edu
April 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📢 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 👉 go.unu.edu/xDRmk
The event includes a presentation by UNU-WIDER Deputy Director @apvjustino.bsky.social, key report findings, and audience Q&A.
Register here 👉 go.unu.edu/xDRmk
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🌍 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. 👉 Watch: go.unu.edu/mPQ2d #WorldSo#WorldSocialReportn#EveryoneIncluded
Insecurity and distrust are key issues. @apvjustino.bsky.social & Marta Roig discuss urgent insights from the UN DESA World Social Report 2025. 👉 Watch: go.unu.edu/mPQ2d #WorldSo#WorldSocialReportn#EveryoneIncluded
April 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🌍 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. 👉 Watch: go.unu.edu/mPQ2d #WorldSo#WorldSocialReportn#EveryoneIncluded
Insecurity and distrust are key issues. @apvjustino.bsky.social & Marta Roig discuss urgent insights from the UN DESA World Social Report 2025. 👉 Watch: go.unu.edu/mPQ2d #WorldSo#WorldSocialReportn#EveryoneIncluded
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Today, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with an Evening Exchange co-hosted with our long-term partner ZIPAR.
In a panel on Zambia’s debt and development challenges, @apvjustino.bsky.social underlined: “It cannot be a trade-off between fiscal reform and investing in people.”
go.unu.edu/kmJTu
In a panel on Zambia’s debt and development challenges, @apvjustino.bsky.social underlined: “It cannot be a trade-off between fiscal reform and investing in people.”
go.unu.edu/kmJTu
April 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with an Evening Exchange co-hosted with our long-term partner ZIPAR.
In a panel on Zambia’s debt and development challenges, @apvjustino.bsky.social underlined: “It cannot be a trade-off between fiscal reform and investing in people.”
go.unu.edu/kmJTu
In a panel on Zambia’s debt and development challenges, @apvjustino.bsky.social underlined: “It cannot be a trade-off between fiscal reform and investing in people.”
go.unu.edu/kmJTu
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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.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – 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
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April 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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.
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At a UN DESA event, our Deputy Director @apvjustino.bsky.social joined global leaders, including António 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
#SocialSummit2025 #EveryoneIncluded
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
At a UN DESA event, our Deputy Director @apvjustino.bsky.social joined global leaders, including António 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
#SocialSummit2025 #EveryoneIncluded
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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...
March 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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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.
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...
March 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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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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
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
March 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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
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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'forcing the world’s poor to pay for Britain’s safety'. Brilliant and brutal Guardian editorial about UK's decision to redirect aid to defence. Must read. chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Starmer’s aid cuts: they won’t buy security, but they will undermine it | Editorial
Editorial: Labour’s ‘pragmatism’ isn’t neutral – it locks the party into fiscal caution, reinforcing stagnation and fuelling the very instability it seeks to avoid
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
'forcing the world’s poor to pay for Britain’s 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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@bmartorano.bsky.social , @apvjustino.bsky.social , @maastrichtu.bsky.social , @ununiversity.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM