The Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (GSE) was inaugurated on 24 October at an opening ceremony that took place at the University of Helsinki. The goal of the new school is to strengthen and broaden the field of economic research in Finland. As...
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) will host the WIDER Annual Lecture 20 at the Stockholm School of Economics on 23 March 2016. The lecture will be delivered by Martin Ravallion, a leading economist in the study of poverty and policies for fighting it.
A multidisciplinary conference on informality and development will be arranged by Indiana University and Cornell University on 22-23 October 2016 in Bloomington, Indiana. The deadline for submission is 1 May 2016.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the Finance Team of the Institute. Closing date: 15 January 2018, 23:59 UTC+2
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute and in particular its related activities in Mozambique. Closing date: 29 January 2018, 23:59 UTC+2
UNU-WIDER, the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa (NT), and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) invite proposals from qualified researchers for detailed economic analysis of the available administrative datasets. Submission...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong web and systems development skills to join the Knowledge & Information Services Team of the Institute. Closing date: 6 July 2018, 23:59 UTC+3
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual (2 positions) with strong commitment and potential to support the 2019–23 research programme as well as the training programme and communication activities of the Institute Closing date: 13 July 2018...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual (2 positions) with strong commitment and potential to support the 2019–23 research programme as well as the training programme and communication activities of the Institute. Closing date: 13 July...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual (2 positions) with strong commitment and potential to support the 2019–23 research programme as well as the training programme and communication activities of the Institute. Closing date: 13 July...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the Programme Officer, and UNU-WIDER’s senior management, in the planning, monitoring, and implementation of the Institute’s work programme. The...
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization will publish a theme issue on quality of-care in the era of SDGs. This theme issue will include original research articles on quality-of-care in low- and middle-income countries. The selection of this research will prioritize rigorous methods, generalizability across contexts, and salience of findings for policy. The deadline for submission is 31 May 2016.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the research and training programme of the Institute. Closing date: 7 March 2018, 23:59 UTC+2.
In order to improve the understanding of tax-benefit systems and their role in developing countries, and to increase the use of tax-benefit microsimulation models, UNU-WIDER invites proposals from qualified researchers for detailed economic analysis...
UNU-WIDER is pleased to announce that, following a highly successful 10 years under the leadership of Professor Finn Tarp, the Institute’s next director has been named. Professor Kunal Sen will join the Institute as Director-Designate on 1 September...
Professor Njuguna Ndung’u has been appointed as the next African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Executive Director effective September 1, 2018. Over the years Professor Ndung’u has held a number of top positions in the field of economics and...
The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to take the lead of the Information Services Team of the Institute and has backstopping and quality assurance skills on all IT related activities. Closing date: 6...
We are seeking qualified proposals to advance economic research, capacity-building, and policy dialogue in South Africa and the southern Africa region. Submission deadline 30 November 2018 23:59 UTC+2.
UNU-WIDER is pleased to announce that Professors Ann E. Harrison, Justin Yifu Lin, and Benno Ndulu will join the WIDER Board in January 2019. All three new board members are prominent development economists who have worked closely with UNU-WIDER in...
UNU-WIDER Chief Economist-Deputy Director, Tony Addison, presented on the extractives industries and development during the exchange visit of the 5th Commission of the Parliament of Mozambique to Finland on 14 November 2017. Addison spoke to the...
UNU-WIDER invites qualified hotels and conference venue suppliers to make an offer for the provision of accommodation and conference services related to two (2) development conferences to be held in Helsinki, Finland, during 2016.
On 4 December 2015 Finn Tarp spoke at the 1st Grand Mozefo Forum 2015 under the heading ’The future is now. Humanizing growth’. The event was aimed at contributing to accelerating growth, inclusion and sustainability in the country by providing a platform for key development actors to interact.
The Finnish United Nations field service contingent visited UNU-WIDER in July as part of their yearly get-together, organized this year in Helsinki. The purpose of the visit was to learn about the Institute and its work in developing contexts, where...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support the research programme of the Institute. Closing date: 27 October 2017, 23:59 UTC+3.
Our greatly respected colleague Nobel Laureate Professor Douglass C. North passed away on 23 November 2015, aged 95. He was the very first WIDER Annual Lecturer, initiating a series of annual lectures that has become very important to the international profile of UNU-WIDER over the years.
Ravi Kanbur, Chairperson of the WIDER board and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, argues that the World Bank needs to transform its role on the world stage in a new vox.eu column.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to administrate the databases (WIID and GRD) hosted at UNU-WIDER to help with further developments of these databases, and to support and/or conduct research on...
New research published by UNU-WIDER today warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population. This would be the first time that poverty has increased globally in thirty years, since 1990.
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong commitment and potential to support a new research project on inequality and its impact on economic growth, human development, and democracy and governance. The project is funded by the...
Deepak Nayyar, long-time supporter of UNU-WIDER and former chair of the WIDER Board, has been appointed as chair of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Professor Nayyar has played a significant role in UNU-WIDER’s...
In dramatic new numbers researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the world’s richest nations, the G7, should have finished. The researchers are now calling for...
UNU-WIDER is looking for an outstanding individual with strong communication and troubleshooting / problem solving skills to join the institute’s ICT Team. Closing date: 4 April 2021, 23:59 UTC+2
The 2021 WIDER Development Conference will take place online during 6-8 September 2021. The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 April 2021 23:59 UTC+2.
In 2021 the UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme will be delivered online. Applications will open on 1 April 2021 and close on 30 April. Details here. The programme gives registered doctoral students the opportunity to utilize the resources...
Rachel Gisselquist will attend Expert Group Meetings (EGMs) on 19–20 May 2021 in preparation for the 2021 United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development. Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow and expert on inequality who will join the EGMs to help inform the thematic reviews for this year’s HLPF, which focuses on the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.