Past book launches
- 29 October 2010 Book Launch: Southern Engines of Global Growth (Oxford University Press) & The Rise of China and India (Palgrave Macmillan) Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino & Guanghua Wan
- 14 September 2010 Book Launch: Southern Engines of Global Growth (Oxford University Press)
- 12 May 2010 Book Launch: The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa (Oxford University Press)
- 26 February 2010 Book Launch: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
- 24 March 2009 UNU-WIDER Launches First Global Wealth Study: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective Edited by James B. Davies
- 20 March 2009 Book launch hosted by UNU-WIDER Project Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Conflict.
- 14 January 2009 Making Peace Work book presentation and seminar. Hosted by DIW Berlin and the United Nations Association of Germany
- 5 June 2008 WIDER Book Launch: The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle in China
- 2 April 2008 WIDER Book Launch with the Brookings Institution: Mobilizing Talent for Global Development
- 22 January 2008 Presentation of the WIDER study on Hunger and Food Security
- 27 November 2007 Launch and Presentation of the WIDER Study Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Change and Economic Development By Ha-Joon Chang, Jonathan Di John and John Toye
- 17 September 2007 Launch and Presentation of the WIDER Study Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons
- 16 May 2007 Launch of WIDER study on The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
- 23 April 2007 Inaguration on Advancing Development
- 15 January 2007 Launch and GDN Parallel Session on Unlocking Human Potential