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Katja Hujo is Senior Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland. Katja is a development economist and social policy expert. She studied economics and political science at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and holds a doctoral degree in economics from FUB. Much of her research is at the interface of economics and politics, for example her research on the political economy of pension reforms, on social protection and poverty reduction, on social development challenges in mineral-dependent contexts, on South-South migration and social policy, and more recently, on the politics of domestic resource mobilization.