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Subnational governance in Ghana – does decentralization improve democratic outcomes?UNU-WIDER researchers in The state and statebuilding in the Global South — international and local interactions project attend an authors’ workshop at the London School of Economics. Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel Chachu, and Michael Danquah...
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
Seminar
Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues IVA fourth research seminar on extractives and domestic revenue mobilisation titled Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues takes place on 9 December 2021 at 3pm Helsinki time (UTC +2). The online event is hosted jointly by UNU-WIDER and the...
Project workshop
COVID-19 impact and policy response across Indian StatesThe researchers under this component of The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions project meet to discuss ongoing research on 'COVID-19 and the state —comparative experiences in the Global...
Workshop
New realities and challenges for development brought by COVID-19
Workshop
Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward FairerThe United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite...
Seminar
Petros Sekeris on theoretical foundation of the modernization hypothesis
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in TanzaniaThe virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in...
Project workshop
COVID-19 and the State —comparative experiences in the Global South
Presentation
Growth 2.0: The good jobs challenge in developing countriesOn 18 November Kunal Sen joins the 4th webinar of the evidence-based policy and action roundtable series by NIRDPR. The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj hosts the event online with Kunal Sen presenting Growth 2.0: the good...
Seminar
Alexander Pick on from protest to progress? Why addressing global discontent is essential to building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic
Presentation
Ayu Pratiwi and Milla Nyyssölä on land rights and inter-generational resource allocations in TanzaniaOn 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...
Seminar
Violence, Inequality, and Growth in Latin AmericaThe Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland , the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Finland organise a special seminar on Violence, Inequality...