• Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?

    WIDER Annual Lecture 25 | Bina Agarwal

    Have changes in the law giving legal equity in property improved women’s situation in practice? Have they closed the gender gap in actual land ownership and trumped restrictive social norms and customs? If not, is there a way forward?  

    Find out in the Annual Lecture | Online | 9 December | 16:00 (UCT+3)

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    WIDER Webinar Series

    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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    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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    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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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...

13 December 2021 11:00 – 14 December 2021 19:00
Online, United Kingdom
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
Panel discussion
Photo by Rohan Reddy / Unsplash. Développer les États fiscaux en Afrique
2 December 2021 15:00
Virtuelle, France
Open for registration
Panel discussion
Photo by Rohan Reddy / Unsplash. Developing Fiscal States in Africa
2 December 2021 15:00
Online, France
Open for registration
Project workshop
COVID-19 impact and policy response across Indian States

The 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...

2 December 2021 10:00 – 3 December 2021 15:30
Online, Finland
Workshop
New realities and challenges for development brought by COVID-19
1 December 2021 14:00 – 16:00
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, 00160, Helsinki, Finland
Workshop
Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward Fairer

The 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...

1 December 2021 04:30 – 3 December 2021 15:00
Online, Thailand
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
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