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WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
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WIDER Annual Lecture 19 - Three Decades of Change in Development
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
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WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
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WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
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WIDER Annual Lecture 14 - Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
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WIDER Annual Lecture 13 - The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
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WIDER Annual Lecture 12 - Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
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WIDER Annual Lecture 11 - The Climate Change Challenge
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WIDER Annual Lecture 10 - Global Patterns of Income and HealthPeople 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.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 9 - The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
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WIDER Annual Lecture 8 - Rethinking Growth StrategiesThis 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.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local FreedomsThe 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.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 6 - Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of GlobalizationProfessor Jeffrey Williamson of Harvard University accepted the invitation to deliver the 2002 Annual Lecture entitled ‘Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization’. It took place at the University of Copenhagen on 5 September 2002.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 5 - Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of DevelopmentThis lecture will focus on horizontal inequality, i.e. inequality among culturally defined groups (e.g. the Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or Catholic and Protestants in N.Ireland), and the implications this has for...