About
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

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AL25 | Bina Agarwal
Bina AgarwalWomen’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 directionLord Mark Malloch-Brow Photo: Mark Malloch-Brow

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AL23 | Santiago Levy
Santiago Levy AL23Informality – addressing the achilles heel of social protection in Latin America

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AL22 | Ernest Aryeetey
AL22The political economy of structural transformation – has democracy failed African economies?

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AL21 | Sabine Alkire
AL21How are people poor? – Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs

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AL20 | Martin Ravallion
AL20Direct interventions against poverty in poor places

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AL19 | Amartya Sen
AL19Three Decades of Change in Development

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AL18 | C. Peter Timmer
Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015

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AL17 | Martti Ahtisaari
AL17Egalitarian principles - the foundation for sustainable peace

Event | Publication | Video | Photos Blog 

AL 16 | Lant Pritchett
AL16The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states

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AL15 | Justin Lin
AL15New Structural Economics - From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing Countries

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AL14 | José Antonio Ocampo
AL14Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture

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AL13 | Ronald Findlay
AL13The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History

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AL12 | Deepak Nayyar
Deepak Nayyar AL12Developing Countries in the World Economy

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AL11 | Kemal Derviş
Kermal Dervis AL11The climate change challenge

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AL10 | Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton AL10Global patterns of income and health

Event | Publication | Blog

AL9 | Nancy Birdsall
Nancy BirdsallThe world is not flat - inequality and injustice in our global economy

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AL8 | Dani Rodrik
Rethinking growth strategies

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AL7 | Kaushik Basu
Global labor standards and local freedoms

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AL6 | Jeffrey Williamson
Winners and losers in two centuries of globalization

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AL5 | Frances Stewart
Horizontal inequality - a neglected dimension of development

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AL4 | Jagdish Bhagwati
BHAGWATI AL4Globalization and appropriate governance

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AL3 | Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Anthony Barnes AtkinsonIs rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the transatlantic consensus

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AL2 | Joseph E. Stiglitz
Stiglitz AL2More instruments and broader goals - moving toward the post-Washington consensus

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AL1 | Douglass C. North
North AL1The new institutional economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem

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