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    Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on development

    Think WIDER – New perspectives on development webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists who present their work and discuss new perspectives to the topic of global development.

    Register to join the webinar live for your chance to ask questions and engage in the discussion! See the current list and registration links for the upcoming webinars.

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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series is back! Join us *ONLINE* for research seminars that showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. 
    In autumn 2021, the Seminar Series events take place on Wednesdays from 16:00–17:00 on Zoom.

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    2021 WIDER Development Conference: COVID-19 and development – effects and new realities for the Global South

    The 2021 WIDER Development Conference privided provide a platform for sharing knowledge on the effects of the pandemic in different regions across the Global South with the aim of connecting research and policy communities around the world to discuss how to move forward.  

    Session videos now available. More coming soon.

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    UN at 75: slow death or a new direction?

    Annual Lecture 24 | Mark Malloch-Brown 

    As the UN celebrates its 75th anniversary this WIDER Annual Lecture discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance?

    EVENT RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE 

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Annual Lecture
Unsplash / Deepak Kumar WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
9 December 2021 16:00 – 17:30
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and Joseph Asunka on Afrobarometer and SDG Scorecards
30 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Petros Sekeris on theoretical foundation of the modernization hypothesis
24 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Alexander Pick on from protest to progress? Why addressing global discontent is essential to building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic
17 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Presentation
Ayu Pratiwi and Milla Nyyssölä on land rights and inter-generational resource allocations in Tanzania

On 17 November 2021 Turku University researcher Ayu Pratiwi and UNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research . The topic of their presentation is...

17 November 2021 10:00 – 11:00
online, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Filipe R. Campante on the political economy consequences of China’s export slowdown
9 November 2021 17:00 – 18:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
2 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Panel discussion
Photo by L.W. on Unsplash COP26: Are We Ready?
28 October 2021 16:00
Online, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Claudio Ferraz on agrarian elites, education, and long-term development
27 October 2021 17:00 – 18:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 62nd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE)

Antonio Savoia presents his ongoing research on Political Institutions and Tax Revenues in the Long Run in the upcoming 62 nd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE) . The conference is held online on 26-29 October 2021. Dr...

26 October 2021 14:00
Online, Italy
Open for registration
Presentation
Conference session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association conference

The changing nature of work and inequality project at UNU-WIDER will present recent research in a session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA-LAMES) Annual Meeting Bogotá 2021 . About the session: The Changing...

21 October 2021 16:45 – 18:15
Online, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Re-visiting the Rwandan Genocide: New Book Presentation by Omar McDoom
20 October 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
United Nations Finland virtual career fair
20 October 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Kunal Sen at the 7th World Investment Forum

During the 7th World Investment Forum during 18–22 October, UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen, joins the Academic Track opening plenary: ‘ Setting the future research and policy agenda on international investment and development ’...

18 October 2021
Online, Switzerland
Past event
Presentation
SOUTHMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection Week

The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 11-15 October 2021. During the week, on 15 October, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...

15 October 2021
Radisson Blu, Mozambique
Past event
Policy seminar
Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia
14 October 2021
Sarovar Premiere Hotel, online, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
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