• 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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    2018 Nordic conference on development economics

    Conference | 11-12 June 2018

    Aalto University School of Business, University of Tampere and UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the Nordic Network in Development Economics will organize the 2018 Nordic Conference on Development Economics on 11-12 June 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research.

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    Migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy

    WIDER Development Conference

    This conference – jointly organized with ARUA – takes place 5-6 October 2017 in Accra, Ghana.

    It explores the relationships between migration, mobility, and development, with a focus on South-South movements and the African region. It aims to bring together new and innovative research from economics and other disciplines that can inform broader policy-relevant debate and action. 

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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 by ERNEST ARYEETEY The political economy of structural transformation - has democracy failed African economies?

You are cordially invited to the 2018 WIDER Annual Lecture which will be given by Professor Ernest Aryeetey. He will discuss the political economy of structural transformation in Africa. The lecture looks at how various political regimes and...

14 September 2018 15:45 – 19:00
Europaea hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6A, Helsinki, Finland
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Photo: Sudipta Arka Das WIDER Annual Lecture 21 - How are people poor? Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
24 October 2017
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Photo: UN Photo/Kibae Park WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
23 March 2016
Stockholm School of Economics, Aula, Sveavägen 65 (entrance from Bertil Ohlins gata), Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 19 - Three Decades of Change in Development
19 September 2015
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
18 November 2014
Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
19 September 2013
Europaea Hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6 A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
27 September 2012
House of Nobility, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano, Avenida Marginal 4441, Maputo, Mozambique
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WIDER Annual Lecture 14 - Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
9 December 2010
UN Headquarters, 1st Avenue, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 13 - The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
21 October 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 12 - Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
23 February 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 11 - The Climate Change Challenge
6 March 2008
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 10 - Global Patterns of Income and Health

People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we take income and health together, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone.

29 September 2006
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 9 - The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
26 October 2005
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 8 - Rethinking Growth Strategies

This lecture, ‘Rethinking Growth Strategies’, focuses on growth because we can all agree that achieving sustained poverty reduction around the world will be practically impossible unless economic growth is achieved in poor countries.

5 November 2004
Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms

The 2003 Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University on the topic of ‘Global Labour Standards and Freedom of Choice’, and took place at Ritarihuone in Helsinki on 10 November.

10 November 2003
Ritarihuone, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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