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2011 events
- 14 December 2011 UNU-WIDER and HECER Seminar: Macroeconomics and Development seminar series: ‘It’s a Deals World: The Dynamics of Capitalism with Weak Institutions’, by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University.
- 6 December 2011 Conference: Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture. Rabat, Morocco, 6-7 December, 2011.
- 5 December 2011 Presentation: International Conference on Sustainable Development of Natural Resources in Africa. Held at UNU-INRA in Ghana, 5-7 December, 2011.
- 2 December 2011 AERC and UNU-WIDER Conference: Macro-economic Management of Foreign Aid. Held in Nairobi, Kenya, 2-3 December, 2011.
- 1 December 2011 Workshop: AERC and UNU-WIDER Curriculum on Development in the area of Climate Change.
- 28 November 2011 Project activity: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17/CMP7). Durban, South Africa
- 23 November 2011 Group visit by students of University of Tampere
- 16 November 2011 Project activity: 'The Bioenergy, Food and Water Nexus' special session convened by UNU-WIDER and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- 14 November 2011 Presentation: 'Making Legon a World-Class University for Africa': An international Conference to Discuss Concept and Funding. Held in Accra, Ghana 14-15 November 2011.
- 6 October 2011 Book Launch and Lecture: Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Oxford University Press) Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur, London, UK
- 5 October 2011 UNU-WIDER and HECER Seminar: Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence, by Augustin Kwasi Fosu.
- 30 September 2011 Conference: UNU-WIDER Conference on Foreign Aid: Research and Communication (ReCom), Helsinki Finland.
- 15 September 2011 Seminar: Returnees, Asia, and Silicon Valley: How Important? Why? and When? Presented by Professor Martin Kenney at UNU-WIDER
- 8 September 2011 Presentation: Group visit by researchers from CAP/IPSARD, Vietnam
- 6 September 2011 Lecturer: Finn Tarp, HECER/UNU-WIDER Masters in Development Economics programme
- 5 September 2011 Seminar: Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of the World Bank, Helsinki, Finland
- 1 September 2011 Conference: UNU-WIDER Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics, Helsinki, Finland
- 1 September 2011 Project meeting: The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from the Last Decade and Prospects fro the Future, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 26 August 2011 Presentation: Visit by a delegation from the Chinese Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP)
- 15 August 2011 Project meeting: Foreign Aid and Democracy
- 11 July 2011 Project meeting: Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery: Implications for Foreign Aid
- 25 June 2011 Project activity: UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC). A one week course on the 'Economics of Climate Change' in Cape Town, South Africa
- 20 June 2011 Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 17 June 2011 Aid – Working for Development: Policy Seminar, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 7 June 2011 Guest lecturer: Finn Tarp presents 'Aid, Growth, and Development: Have we come full circle?', Bonn, Germany
- 28 May 2011 Exhibition: Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
- 27 May 2011 Project meeting: Learning to Compete: Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya
- 6 May 2011 Open session: A further interrogation of the evolution of real household consumption for Tanzania. Held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- 5 May 2011 Guest lecturer: Development under Climate Change. University of Helsinki, Finland
- 4 May 2011 WIDER Annual Lecture 15: New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of The World Bank. Maputo, Mozambique.
- 27 April 2011 Project activity: UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC). A three week online course on the 'The Science of Climate Change and Biophysical Modeling'
- 15 April 2011 Seminar presentation: Social Keynesianism and Productive Cash Transfers: An alternative to global crisis by Cristovam Buarque, Helsinki, Finland
- 13 April 2011 Group visit by students of Estonian School of Diplomacy
- 11 April 2011 Project meeting: Development under Climate Change, Boulder, USA
- 4 April 2011 Workshop: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 22 March 2011 Finnish Development Days, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department of Development Policy, Helsinki, Finland
- 22 March 2011 Guest lecture: Climate Change and Economic Development. University of Tampere, Finland
- 20 March 2011 Project launch: The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Survey
- 9 March 2011 The Impact of Aid – What is the impact of aid on economic development, recipient governments and donors themselves? Stockholm, Sweden
- 3 March 2011 Group visit by students of Helsinki University's Faculty of Social Sciences
- 1 March 2011 Guest lecture: Aid, Growth and Development, Tampere, Finland
- 24 February 2011 Book Launch: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Palgrave Macmillan) Edited by Wim Naudé, New York, USA
- 24 February 2011 Aid, Growth and Development: Have we come Full Circle?
- 22 February 2011 Project meeting: Learning to Compete: Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa. Helsinki, Finland
- 17 February 2011 Seminar: SOAS Seminar on Aid and Development in Asia and Africa: 'The Role of Infrastructure and Capacity Development in East Asia Growth and its Implication for African Development', London, UK
- 17 February 2011 Should Africa Industrialize? UNU Worldwide in New York Series, the United Nations University Office at the UN, New York, USA
- 31 January 2011 Public lecture: Sustainable Development in a Period of Climate Change, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 20 January 2011 Workshop: Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture
- 18 January 2011 Seminar: '2010' The Global Go-To Think Tanks Index, United Nations University in New York
- 6 January 2011 Workshop: Challenges for Development Research: Decentralisation, the Transfer of Land, Impact Assessment and Design of Development Programmes, Institutional Failures, and using Agriculture for Development
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