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WIDER Annual Lecture
The WIDER Annual Lecture is one of UNU-WIDER’s flagship events. The first lecture was given by Douglas C. North in 1997. Since then the lecture has been delivered by a prestigious line of scholars and political actors, 4 of whom are Nobel Laureates.
The lecture is open to the public and is usually delivered by an eminent scholar or policy maker who has made a significant contribution in the field of development economics. The key findings and policy recommendations from the lecture are also summarized in a publication and shared with policy-makers and practitioners in the developing world, across the UN, and in the international community more broadly.
Below you will find details and materials from the previous 26 WIDER Annual Lectures.
AL26 | Daron Acemoğlu
In the name of progress
AL25 | Bina Agarwal
Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
Event | Video | Publication
AL 24 | Mark Malloch-Brown
UN at 75: slow death or a new direction
Event | Video | Presentation | Publication
AL23 | Santiago Levy
Informality – addressing the achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
Event | Video | Photos | Presentation | Publication
AL22 | Ernest Aryeetey
The political economy of structural transformation – has democracy failed African economies?
Event | Video | Photos | Presentation | Publication
AL21 | Sabine Alkire
How are people poor? – Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
Event | Video | Photos | Presentation | Publication
AL20 | Martin Ravallion
Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
Event | Publication | Video | Presentation
AL19 | Amartya Sen
Three Decades of Change in Development
Event | Publication | Video | Photos | Blog
AL18 | C. Peter Timmer
Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
Event | Publication | Video | Photos | Presentation
AL17 | Martti Ahtisaari
Egalitarian principles - the foundation for sustainable peace
Event | Publication | Video | Photos | Blog
AL 16 | Lant Pritchett
The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states
Event | Publication | Video | Photos | Presentation
AL15 | Justin Lin
New Structural Economics - From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing Countries
Event | Publication | Video | Photos
AL14 | José Antonio Ocampo
Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
Event | Publication | Video | Photos | Presentation
AL13 | Ronald Findlay
The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
Event | Publication | Video | Photos
AL12 | Deepak Nayyar
Developing Countries in the World Economy
Event | Publication | Photos
AL11 | Kemal Derviş
The climate change challenge
Event | Publication | Blog
AL10 | Angus Deaton
Global patterns of income and health
Event | Publication | Blog
AL9 | Nancy Birdsall
The world is not flat - inequality and injustice in our global economy
AL8 | Dani Rodrik
Rethinking growth strategies
AL7 | Kaushik Basu
Global labor standards and local freedoms
AL6 | Jeffrey Williamson
Winners and losers in two centuries of globalization
AL5 | Frances Stewart
Horizontal inequality - a neglected dimension of development
AL4 | Jagdish Bhagwati
Globalization and appropriate governance
AL3 | Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the transatlantic consensus
AL2 | Joseph E. Stiglitz
More instruments and broader goals - moving toward the post-Washington consensus
The new institutional economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem