• Informality – addressing the Achilles Heel of Social Protection in Latin America

    WIDER Annual Lecture 23

    The 2019 WIDER Annual Lecture by Santiago Levy is to be held on Wednesday 30 October 2019 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. The event is organized in collaboration with the Graduate Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development.

    The lecture will be delivered by Santiago Levy, main architect of Progresa/Oportunidades — Mexico's incentive-based health, nutrition and education program for the poor.

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    Transforming economies - for better jobs

    Conference | 11-13 September 2019 | Bangkok, Thailand 

    UNU-WIDER in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize a three-day conference on transforming economies. Featuring presentations from leading scholars including Richard Baldwin, Seema Jayachandran, Ravi Kanbur, Naila Kabeer and UN ASG Elliott Harris, this WIDER Development Conference provides a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research and its policy take-aways on the challenges for productive job creation in many different country contexts, across all developing regions.

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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. The weekly sessions held in Helsinki are open to local and visiting researchers, policy makers, and others working on development topics.

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Bangladesh © World Bank Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries – Towards LDC-V
15 October 2020 09:00 – 16 October 2020 17:00
Seminar
Erwin Bulte on participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoods

Abstract - Participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoods: experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia Evidence on the effectiveness of participatory development approaches in low-income countries is mixed. We use an experiment...

18 December 2019 15:00 – 16:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Mariapia Mendola on agricultural transformation and farmers' expectations
11 December 2019 15:00 – 16:00
Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room, Katajanokanlaituri 6 , Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Fantu Cheru and Christopher Cramer on the Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian economy
4 December 2019 14:00 – 15:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Public Forum: What Happens After Graduation? Evidence from Mozambique

On 22 November 2019, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme will hold a Public Forum to launch the Final Report on the Survey of School-to-Work Transition of University Students , a report based on a systematic study on the school-to-...

22 November 2019 09:00 – 12:00
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Rani Towers (ground floor), Avenida Marginal 141, Maputo, Mozambique
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Conference
Transformation Towards Better Jobs

On 21 November 2019, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme will hold its fourth annual conference in Maputo. Hosted by the Centre for Economic and Management Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University and organized under the slogan ‘...

21 November 2019 08:00 – 17:30
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Rani Towers (ground floor), Avenida Marginal 141, Maputo, Mozambique
Open for registration
Seminar
Joshua Magero Otieno on ethnicity, politics and wellbeing in Kenya

Joshua Magero Otieno will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 November. Abstract – Ethnicity, politics and wellbeing in Kenya Perceived or real welfare imbalances fundamentally impacts individuals’ civic participation, inclusivity...

20 November 2019 15:30 – 16:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
WeiWei Chen on the political economy of Chinese private investment in Ethiopia
20 November 2019 15:00 – 16:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Presentation
Deepak Nayyar Resurgent Asia - Diversity in Development
15 November 2019
Ministry of Interior, meeting room Kruunu, Kirkkokatu 12, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Asia's remarkable transformation and rise: lessons for latecomers to, and laggards in, development

On 13 November, Professor Deepak Nayyar will deliver a lecture at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) based on his newly released book, Resurgent Asia . Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama in 1968, to...

14 November 2019
Sida , Valhallavägen 199 , Stockholm, Sweden
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Seminar
Stéphane Straub on voting corrupt politicians out of office? Evidence from a survey experiment in Paraguay

Stéphane Straub will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 13 November 2019. Abstract – Voting corrupt politicians out of office? Evidence from a survey experiment in Paraguay This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that giving...

13 November 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Lecture
China Unsplash Economic development in Asia: Learning from a half-century of transformations
13 November 2019
IIES, A822, Universitetsvägen 10, 114 18 , Stockholm, Sweden
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Seminar
Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities
8 November 2019
Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room, Katajanokanlaituri 6 , Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Turning the tide on inequality — Work in progress meeting
8 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Policy workshop
Policy dialogues — Fiscal planning, effective revenue mobilization, and the role of collaborative research in policy evaluation
7 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Alysson Portella on racial social norms and education: “whitening” ideology and students’ performance in Brazil
6 November 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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