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27 October 2008 - Innovating for poverty reduction in a time of financial turmoil
To reconsider the role of entrepreneurship and technological innovation in development, UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT are jointly organizing a workshop to... Read more...
22 August 2008 - Partnership or Neo-colonialism?
The role of the southern engines of global growth – China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) – on African development Read more...
13 August 2008 - Dilemmas in Entrepreneurship
A workshop on 21-23 August in Helsinki will tackle a number of dilemmas faced by policy makers and researchers with respect to entrepreneurship. Read more...
23 June 2008 - WIDER Press release: Rapid growth in large emerging economies is changing the balance of world power
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2 June 2008 - WIDER Book Launch: The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle in China
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26 March 2008 - WIDER Book Launch with the Brookings Institution: Mobilizing Talent for Global Development
Embargo: Wednesday 2 April 2008, 3:00 pm. A new study on The International Mobility of Talent Types, Causes, and Development Impact directed by Andrés... Read more...