Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later...
Blog
From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (August 2012)
Tony Addison With this issue, Angle returns refreshed from its Nordic summer break. The sun continues to shine on the Baltic, although it is getting...
Blog
Global Recycling Supply Chains and Waste Picking in Developing Countries
by
Martin Medina
December 2009
Martin Medina As world leaders gather in Copenhagen this month for the fifteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) the challenges...
Blog
The Future of Development – Aid and Beyond
by
Myles Wickstead
May 2015
Just over a year ago, in March 2014, UNU-WIDER published a report entitled: What do we know about aid as we approach 2015? It notes the many successes...
Blog
Why Ending Malnutrition is a Quintessential 21st Century Development Goal
by
Lawrence Haddad
February 2015
In the run up to the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in September every development issue is clamouring for attention. The...
Seminar
The political economy of green growth
Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER delivered a seminar on 'The Political Economy of Green Growth' as part of the TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2012 organised by the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) at Trinity College...
Fri, 23 March 2012
Dublin,
Ireland
Past event
Lecture
Food security and global environmental change
Invited Guest Lecturer, Aziz Karimov, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. The lecture introduces food security concept and its four dimensions. It also describes food system approach which can help better understand the interactions between Food Security...
Tue, 15 November 2011
University of Jyväskylä,
Jyväskylä,
Finland
Past event
Blog
Development Agenda after 2015: Finishing the Job we have Started
by
Andris Piebalgs
May 2013
9 May 2013 Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development Imagine a world where global poverty is at a record low; growth in Africa—at a record high...
Blog
Aid in the Climate Change Combat
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
April 2013
17 April 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén In recent weeks there have been several large gatherings of experts dealing with how to tackle the complex climate...
Blog
Is COVID-19 really an exogenous shock?
by
Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar
July 2020
"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein Economists invariably divide shocks into...
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...
Tue, 14 December 2021
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Wed, 15 December 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 16th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...
Wed, 30 June 2021
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Fri, 2 July 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD Strategy...
Mon, 27 June 2022
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Tue, 28 June 2022
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Aid, Environment and Climate Change
The Director of UNU-WIDER Finn Tarp gave a presentation on 'Aid, Environment and Climate Change' in Helsinki during the joint IDB-NDF seminar on Innovative Climate Financing Mechanisms at the Nordic Development Fund, Helsinki. Presentation
Mon, 4 November 2013
Nordic Development Fund,
Uudenmaankatu 16,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Results meeting
Aid and our changing environment
Development aid funds have in recent years shifted focus significantly towards climate change; but massive challenges are yet to be overcome in how we allocate and design aid initiatives in an effective manner to effectively address the continuing...
Tue, 4 June 2013
Sida,
Valhallavägen 199,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event