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The WIDER Annual Lecture is delivered by scholars in the field of economics of development and transition

The WIDER Annual Lecture is delivered by an eminent scholar who has made significant contribution in the field of economics of development and transition. The Lecture is available to download from this web site, and a printed copy is also available upon request. 

8-Annual lecture research uptake_2012-.pdf Research Uptake Report 2012—The WIDER Annual Lecture.pdf (107.08 kilobytes)
 

16th Annual Lecture
Folk and the Formula: Fact and Fiction in Development

Lant Pritchett

 

Folk and the Formula - Fact and Fiction in Development_ Lant Pritchett.pdf AL16

15th Annual Lecture
From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities
and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing
Countries

Justin Yifu Lin
AL15 final.pdf AL15
14th Annual Lecture

Reforming the International Monetary System

José Antonio Ocampo

WAL2011-14.pdf AL14
13th Annual Lecture
The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory
and History		Ronald Findlay 
AL13 Findlay-on-the-web.pdf AL13
12th Annual Lecture
Developing Countries in the World Economy:
The Future in the Past?		Deepak Nayyar
Annual Lecture 12 Final.pdf AL12
11th Annual Lecture
The Climate Change Challenge		Kemal Derviş
annual-lecture-11-online.pdf AL11
10th Annual Lecture
Global Patterns of Income and Health:
Facts, Interpretations, and Policies		Angus Deaton
annual-lecture-2006.pdf AL10
9th Annual Lecture
The World is Not Flat: Inequality
and Injustice in our Global Economy		Nancy Birdsall
annual-lecture-2005.pdf AL9

8th Annual Lecture
Rethinking Growth Strategies

Dani Rodrik
annual-lecture-2004.pdf AL8
7th Annual Lecture
Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms		Kaushik Basu
annual-lecture-2003.pdf AL7
6th Annual Lecture
Winners and Losers in Two Centuries
of Globalization		Jeffrey G. Williamson
annual-lecture-2002.pdf AL6
5th Annual Lecture
Horizontal Inequality:
A Neglected Dimension of Development		Frances Stewart
annual-lecture-2001.pdf AL5
4th Annual Lecture
Globalization and Appropriate Governance		Jagdish N. Bhagwati
annual-lecture-2000.pdf AL4
3rd Annual Lecture
Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable?
A Critique of the Transatlantic
Consensus		Sir Anthony B. Atkinson
annual-lecture-1999.pdf AL3
2nd Annual Lecture
More Instruments and Broader Goals:
Moving Toward the Post-Washington Consensus		Joseph E. Stiglitz
annual-lecture-1998.pdf AL2
1st Annual Lecture
The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics
to an Understanding of the Transition Problem		Douglass C. North
annua-lecture-1997.pdf AL1

The collection of Annual Lectures 1997–2004 is available as:
Wider Perspectives on Global Development
Published in Studies in Development Economics and Policy, by Palgrave
Macmillan (ISBN 9781403996312)