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Building State Capabilities
Workshop
Subnational governance in Ghana – does decentralization improve democratic outcomes?

UNU-WIDER researchers in The state and statebuilding in the Global South — international and local interactions project attend an authors’ workshop at the London School of Economics . ( Download programme ). Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel...

13 December 2021 – 14 December 2021
Online, United Kingdom
Past event
Project workshop
COVID-19 impact and policy response across Indian States

The researchers under this component of The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions project meet to discuss ongoing research on 'COVID-19 and the state —comparative experiences in the Global...

2 December 2021 – 3 December 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
COVID-19 and the State —comparative experiences in the Global South
22 November 2021 – 23 November 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist at Finland's Development Policy Days 2021

Rachel M. Gisselquist joins a panel discussion at the annual Development Policy Days event hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland. The event is held 9-10 November 2021 both online and at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki from 8:30 – 16:30...

9 November 2021 – 10 November 2021
Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank Project workshop: Fiscal states – the origins and development implications
15 June 2021 – 22 June 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Blog
Mozambique's difficult decade: Three lessons to inform next steps

At the start of the last decade, Mozambique’s prospects looked stellar...

Foreign Direct Investment Foreign investments Natural resource management
About
Photo: © Jonathan Ernst/World Bank Sub-national institutional performance across Ghana’s districts and regions – variation and causes Ghana Institutional performance State capacity
Presentation
Kunal Sen How (not) to build state capability in developing countries
20 January 2020
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals , Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Barcelona, Spain
Past event
Project
UN Photo_Isaac Billy The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions

Theme: Transforming states

Building State Capabilities State capacity Aid effectiveness
Project
UN Photo_Kibae Park How do effective states emerge?

Theme: Transforming states

Building State Capabilities State capacity Inclusive growth
Project
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications

Theme: Transforming states

Fiscal capacity Taxation Building State Capabilities
Working Paper
Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform

The World Bank’s Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy obj...

Business Rules Building State Capabilities
Blog
How (not) to build state capability

Effective and capable states are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

SDGs SDG16 Building State Capabilities
News
Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER

‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’

SDGs Transformation Informality
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