Blog
The Great African Data Debate
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
September 2013
24 September 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén At the recent UNU-WIDER conference here in Helsinki on inclusive growth in Africa, the quality of national...
Blog
Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic
by
Sreenivasan Subramanian
December 2013
9 December 2013 S. Subramanian 1 Introduction It appears that the World Bank is planning to maintain and disseminate systematic information on a...
Blog
Imperfect Data Increases Uncertainty
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
May 2013
9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...
Blog
Inclusive Growth in Africa
by
Roger Williamson
September 2013
24 September 2013 Roger Williamson Another big weekend for UNU-WIDER. The stage was well set on Thursday 19 September for a consideration of...
Blog
Focus on Poverty: Big Data is no Shortcut to Equality
by
Roger Williamson
May 2014
27 May 2014 Roger Williamson For a school prize in the 1960s, I insisted on having a book on the revolution taking place in traditional social life...
Workshop
Code development training for Tanzania Revenue authority
UNU-WIDER organized an online code development training workshop using the Stata statistical software for the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) staff on 20 January 2021. The objective of the training was to build the technical capacity of the TRA...
Wed, 20 January 2021
Online,
Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Past event
Workshop
Stata introduction course for revenue authorities
An online Stata introduction course was provided to 38 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at the revenue authorities and research institutes in Zambia and Tanzania. Stata is a software for statistics and data science. The aim of...
Thu, 1 July 2021
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Tue, 31 August 2021
online,
Past event
Workshop
STATA intermediate course for revenue authorities
A new 3-day Stata Intermediate training course is provided to 21 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at revenue authorities and research institutes in Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The course is prepared and presented by...
Wed, 6 October 2021
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Fri, 8 October 2021
online,
Past event
Workshop
Quantitative methods for applied economic analysis
Tue, 27 September 2016
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Fri, 30 September 2016
Eduardo Mondlane University,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Workshop
Analysing poverty
The Analysing Poverty workshop was held in Maputo, 6-10 July 2015. The workshop is part of the UNU-WIDER Research Programme theme of Transfromation, in co-operation with Ministry of Economics and Finance of Mozambique, the University Eduardo Mondlane...
Mon, 6 July 2015
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Fri, 10 July 2015
University Eduardo Mondlane,
Avenida do Zimbábwe,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event