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UNU-WIDER's LDC5 Conference Exhibition

Visit the virtual booth featuring materials shared at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar. Check out photos, videos, and infographics on our research results from LDCs.

Check out our new series of short videos on ‘The puzzle of peace’!

Learn about key issues in peace and conflict research in two minutes from top experts in the field. Click here to watch.

Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

In collaboration with Stellenbosch University, we organised an intensive winter school course on tax policy research, delivering training to 27 African researchers from 13 countries. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on domestic revenue mobilization

This webinar series aims to facilitate a discussion on how domestic revenue mobilization can be supported in the Global South. Read more

Check out our research in brief

Our research and policy briefs provide a short overview with key findings, lessons, and policy implications, from some of our key research outputs.

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Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

Introducing the WIDER Alumni

WIDER Alumni connects former UNU-WIDER PhD Fellows, Visiting scholars, research collaborators and personnel who share a unique and rich experience of learning and working together as the people behind the institute's research and operations. Read more

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Tax revenues and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa

by Abrams M.E. Tagem, Oliver Morrissey
August 2022

African countries raise lower amounts of tax as a share of national income (GDP) than other countries. Researchers are interested in understanding why this is the case...

Government tax revenue Government revenue domestic resource mobilization

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Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Uganda

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER and Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ). The topics discussed in this...

7 December 2021 – 8 December 2021

Online, Kampala, Uganda

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