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    How is COVID-19 changing development? 

    The new webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists to present new research on the implications they foresee of COVID-19 for global development efforts and the economic and social impacts for the Global South. 

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    Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries – Towards LDC-V

    Conference | 15-16 October 2020 | Helsinki, Finland 

    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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    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 POSTPONED: Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries - Towards LDC-V
15 October 2020 09:00 – 16 October 2020 17:00
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak on responding to COVID-19 in developing countries
30 June 2020 16:00 – 17:00
Open for registration
Conference
Dylan LowthianUNDP CANCELLED: Global partnerships for sustainable development
26 June 2020 08:30 – 27 June 2020 17:30
Scandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Eva-Maria Egger and Ricardo Santos on COVID-19 and Africa's lockdown dilemma
23 June 2020 16:00 – 17:00
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Mick Moore on COVID-19 and taxation in Africa
15 June 2020 16:00 – 17:00
Open for registration
Seminar
Seminar Series Svetlana Ledyaeva on trade diversion effects of China's VAT export rebates
10 June 2020 13:00 – 14:00
Open for registration
Panel discussion
Kunal Sen joins panel at virtual conference on implications of the COVID-19 crisis for labour and employment in India

The Institute for Human Development jointly with International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) is organising a virtual conference on implications of the Covid-19 crisis for labour and employment in India:...

8 June 2020 14:30 – 9 June 2020 20:00
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Yuen Yuen Ang on COVID-19 and centralized power
2 June 2020
Past event
Seminar
Vincent Leyaro on inter and intra industry trade effects of East Africa custom union in Tanzania

Vincent Leyaro gave a presentation on 27 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract – Inter and intra...

27 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Vincent Leyaro on distributional impacts of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard rated items in Tanzania

Vincent Leyaro gave a presentation on 20 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - Assessing the distributional...

20 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Amrita Saha on trade, technology and absorptive capacity of Tanzanian textiles and apparel companies

Amrita Saha gave a presentation on 20 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - Trade, technology and absorptive...

20 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Bethuel Kinuthia on input subsidy schemes and agricultural productivity in Tanzania

Bethuel Kinuthia gave a presentation on 13 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - The impact of input subsidy...

13 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Andy Sumner on COVID-19 and development
12 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Andrea Vaccaro on comparing cross-national measures of state capacity

Andrea Vaccaro gave a presentation for the UNU-WIDER staff on 29 April 2020. The presentation was held as a webinar. Summary: Comparing cross-national measures of state capacity In the last few decades research on state capacity, its causes, and its...

29 April 2020
Past event
Seminar
POSTPONED: Rajeev Goel on corruption beyond the glass ceiling - do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?

Rajeev Goel will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 April Abstract – Corruption beyond the glass ceiling: do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently? Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across...

20 April 2020
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust: 2nd Annual Workshop

More than 30 participants attended the 2nd annual workshop for ‘Trust and Governance’ project, held virtually on the 16th and 17th April 2020. The workshop was initially set to be held in Colombia but had to be moved to a virtual...

16 April 2020 – 17 April 2020
Virtual (Zoom)
Past event
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