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From newsletter to blog - welcome to the new WIDERAngle
By now you have probably seen the exciting revamp of our website. These changes are not cosmetic. They represent a fundamental rebuilding of our web...
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Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution
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Kyle McNabb
June 2017
At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to...
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Updated Government Revenue Dataset provides new insights into developing country tax collection trends
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Kyle McNabb
October 2017
The increasing focus on domestic resource mobilization in developing countries means that, for researchers and policy makers, access to accurate and...
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Domestic revenue mobilization and the role of data
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James Stewart
October 2017
Government revenues are central to funding public expenditures in all countries. Increasingly, developing countries must look to raise domestic...
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Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
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Kyle McNabb
January 2019
Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the...
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Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India
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Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal, Divya Tuteja
January 2019
Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you...
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Urban poverty: cities, slums, and the need for policy action
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Emily Rains, Anirudh Krishna
October 2022
Developing countries will be predominantly urban by 2030. While urbanization is historically associated with development and broad-based social...
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Sales recovered faster from the pandemic than employment: Evidence from tax administrative and survey data in Zambia
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Aliisa Koivisto, Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Muhammad Malik, Mashekwa Maboshe
August 2022
Like most other countries, the government of Zambia introduced restrictions to control COVID-19, which considerably curtailed normal economic activity...
Lecture
Public Economics Winter School 2017
The University of Pretoria will hold from 3-7 July 2017 the second Winter School – one of the key events in the public economics capacity building initiative managed by GTAC on behalf of the National Treasury.
Mon, 3 July 2017
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Fri, 7 July 2017
University of Pretoria,
cnr Lynnwood Road and Roper Street,
Pretoria,
South Africa
Past event
Presentation
The state of development in Asia: Current trends and new challenges
The State of Development in Asia - Current Trends and New Challenges. Presentation to Finnish Ambassadors to Asia & Oceania, Konigstedt Kartano, Helsinki, August 16, 2012
Thu, 16 August 2012
Konigstedt Kartano,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Urbanization and development in Asia: Multidimensional perspectives
Presenter: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, UNDP Nepal, formerly UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow. Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns...
Sat, 16 June 2012
Central European University,
Budapest,
Hungary
Past event
Seminar
Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
For complete information on this event, please refer to the official homepage (Finnish) http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/home (English) The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and...
Sat, 26 May 2012
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Sun, 27 May 2012
Kaisaniemi Park & Railway Square,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom?
Social Protection in the form of conditional cash transfers, non-contributory social pension schemes or targeted workfare programs, have evolved in recent years in an increasing number of developing countries. Impact evaluations show that social...
Wed, 23 May 2012
Mediterranean Museum Auditorium,
Fredsgatan 2,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Presentation
Group visit by the Helsinki Students' UN Association (HYKY ry)
Group visit by the Helsinki Students’ UN Association for a seminar on UNU-WIDER’s mandate and research programme, with a research presentation on the UNU-WIDER project ‘Development Under Climate Change’ given by James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU...
Thu, 3 May 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
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
Presentation
Nordic-Baltic multilateral development banks meeting
The opening was chaired by Ms Anne Sipiläinen, Under Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. In the session presented by UNU-WIDER Chief Economist and Deputy Director Tony Addison and Research Fellow Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, the...
Wed, 25 January 2012
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Thu, 26 January 2012
House of Estates,
Snellmaninkatu 9-11,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event