Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a development economist and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. His work focuses on foreign aid, poverty and inequality, tax policy, welfare–benefit systems and the social effects that these policies generate. He is also interested in political economy considerations of state capacity and the functioning and efficacy of governments. His most recent co-edited book, 'The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa' is published by Oxford University Press, 2019. Experience