• Responding to crises

    WIDER Development Conference

    The Responding to Crises conference will pay close attention to the economic and social impact of crises, the tensions that arise in responding to continuing crises while dealing with the unexpected, the resourcing of responses and what the future might bring—for good or bad.

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    Human capital and growth

    WIDER Development Conference

    Human capital has been identified not only as a key determinant of growth and poverty alleviation, but as critical for human development. This conference will contribute to a better understanding of these topics by shedding light on the interactions of human capital accumulation and growth, both at micro and macro levels. It will bring together about 100-150 academics and researchers from all over the world and provide a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research.

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    Direct interventions against poverty in poor places

    WIDER Annual Lecture 20 by Martin Ravallion

    Martin Ravallion, a leading economist in the research of poverty and policies for fighting it, is best known for his proposal of the ‘$1 per day’ poverty line, which became very widely accepted a universal measurement for monitoring progress against global poverty. At WIDER Annual Lecture 20 he will discuss the economic and political issues of the use of direct interventions, such as cash transfers and in kind contributions, against poverty.

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    Three decades of change in development

    WIDER Annual Lecture 19 by Amartya Sen

    The 2015 WIDER Annual Lecture was given by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Helsinki on 19 September 2015. He discussed the overall challenge of sustainable and human-focused development including new and old challenges.

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Seminar
An introduction to NAMOD, a Namibian Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model

Researchers and civil servants from ministries in Namibia will gather on 11-13 October to learn about NAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the country. The aim of the training event – organized by UNU-WIDER and SASPRI, and supported...

11 October 2016 09:00 – 13 October 2016 16:00
UNICEF Namibia, UN House, 38-44 Stein Street, Klein Windhoek, Windhoek, Namibia
Project workshop
Photo: Joe Miserendino SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development
10 October 2016 09:00 – 11 October 2016 17:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Project meeting
Addressing group-based inequalities through legal empowerment

The project workshop brings together researchers collaborating within the initiative on ‘Addressing group-based inequalities through legal empowerment’ to present and discuss their work-in-progress. It will be held on 7-8 October 2016 in Helsinki.

7 October 2016 09:00 – 8 October 2016 17:30
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Workshop
Quantitative methods for applied economic analysis
27 September 2016 09:00 – 30 September 2016 16:00
Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Conference
Photo: UN Photo/Tobin Jones Responding to crises
23 September 2016 – 24 September 2016
Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Group-based inequalities: political implications for democratic governance

This project workshop brings together researchers collaborating within the ‘Political implications of group-based inequalities’ project to present and discuss their work-in-progress on 9-10 September in Helsinki.

9 September 2016 – 10 September 2016
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
A tax-benefit model for Ghana
5 September 2016
University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
The root causes of large scale forced migration

Director Finn Tarp made a contribution on international migration in a policy seminar hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

24 August 2016
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Laivastokatu 22, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Tax and benefit micro-simulation modeling in Tanzania

UNU-WIDER, the Department of Economics of the University of Dar es Salaam and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) is co-organizing a workshop on tax and benefit micro-simulation modeling in Tanzania on 28 July 2016, in Dar es...

28 July 2016
University of Dar es Salaam, Council Chamber, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Project meeting
Industries without smokestacks

This project workshop on industries without smokestacks brings together researchers to discuss joint work on the industry sector and structural transformation in Africa. The workshop was held in Helsinki on 19-20 July 2016.

19 July 2016 – 20 July 2016
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Group-based inequalities: Patterns and trends within and across countries

The project workshop brings together researchers collaborating within the ‘Group-based inequalities: Patterns and trends within and across countries’ project to present and discuss their work-in-progress on 16-17 June in Helsinki. The...

16 June 2016 – 17 June 2016
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Conference
TIPS Annual Forum 2016 - Industrialisation and the Mining Economy
14 June 2016 – 15 June 2016
School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, Bunting Road, Johannesburg, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Decent Work in the Era of Sustainable Development

What is the role of decent work in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era? This was the main topic of discussion in the seminar organized by the Global Sustainability Foundation and the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland (SASK) , which...

13 June 2016
Hakaniemi-sali, John Stenbergin ranta 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Unlocking Africa's development potential - how to translate economic growth into development goals

African Development Bank, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and UNU-WIDER co-organize a seminar discussion 'Unlocking Africa's development potential - how to translate economic growth into development goals’.

9 June 2016
House of Estates, Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Lecture
A new analytical frontier: firm-level analysis using SARS administrative record data

The lecture introduced and described South African Revenue Service (SARS) tax administrative record data based on company and individual records. An important element of economic growth and transformation relates to the characteristics, determinants...

6 June 2016
Wits Business School, 2 St David’s Place, Johannesburg, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Technical workshop on measurement of productivity

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hosted a small technical workshop on the measurement of productivity on 6 June in Pretoria, South Africa.

6 June 2016
South African Reserve Bank, 370 Helen Joseph Street , Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
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