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UNU-WIDER 2022 Annual Report is released

2022 was a key year in the UNU-WIDER 2019–2023 work programme, with great achievements made possible through our partnerships and collaborations Read more in the 2022 Annual Report.
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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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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
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Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues II
26 May 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Lecture
Stata training for Domestic savings country authors

Capacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams...

27 October 2021 – 29 October 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Learning
UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy research

UNU-WIDER is launching a Winter School on tax policy research. The aim of the course is to provide African researchers with an understanding of the theories, methods, and data availability for conducting high quality analysis on tax and development economics. The course will take place in two parts during the period 31 May - 16 July 2022. The deadline for applications is 18 March 2022 23:59 UTC+2.

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UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy research

Theme: Transforming societies

News
New tax research collaboration and additional SOUTHMOD model for Rwanda
Webinar
Paving the way for fiscal capacity
21 March 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Webinar
Corruption and theft in the global oil and gas sector
18 April 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Conference
Revving up revenue for development – the role of domestic resource mobilization

The WIDER Development Conference on the role of domestic revenue mobilization in development takes place in Oslo, Norway, September 6–8, 2023.

6 September 2023 08:30 – 8 September 2023 17:30
Oslo, Norway
Working Paper
Domestic revenue mobilization and informality

Effective domestic revenue mobilization has gained renewed urgency, especially in the light of the need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In taxation debates, the ‘informal sectors’ have hitherto been assumed to be a part of the problem and...

Working Paper
The state and the ‘legalization’ of illicit financial flows

Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal...

Blog
Empirical research is crucial for better tax enforcement in the developing world
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I had the privilege to participate in the UNU-WIDER Winter School as one of the lecturers. In this blog, I explain my main takeaways for students and...

Blog
Global tax reforms, net-zero, and domestic revenue: Food for thought from the DRM programme
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Domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) and taxation have gained prominence lately on the global agenda, most recently with the resolution for the United...

Blog
The tortoise defeats the hare: Does moderate outlast rapid growth in domestic revenue?

The past four decades have seen marked improvements in the collection of domestic revenue (tax and non-tax revenues) in many countries of the Global...

Research Brief
Dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization
Working Paper
Global oil theft: impact and policy responses

This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5–7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum...

Research Brief
Improving the efficiency of tax collection in Tanzania
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