Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

What are the causes and potential consequences of the growing deglobalization movement? The 27th WIDER Annual Lecture welcomes Dr Pinelopi (Penny) Goldberg, the Elihu Professor of Economics and Management in Yale University, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, to discuss this with her lecture 'Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality'.

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Accelerating progress towards decent work and fairer societies – joint event with ESCAP

How can developing economies overcome the challenges of informality to ensure decent work, and what role does technology play? How can this process help to build fairer societies and ensure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals? 
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is partnering with UNU-WIDER for a discussion on how to build fairer societies through decent work on 26 October. 

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The developer’s dilemma – discussion event with ESCAP

On 26 October, UNU-WIDER, in partnership with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), hosts an event bringing together academics and international experts to discuss the developer's dilemma in Southeast Asia.

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Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Zambian administrative tax data

In collaboration with the Research and Statistics Unit at the Zambia Revenue Authority ( ZRA ), UNU-WIDER organizes a dissemination workshop on two studies evaluating tax compliance in Zambia. This event allows all key stakeholders to acquaint...

1 March 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Policy seminar
UNU-WIDER at the Effective development co-operation summit
12 December 2022 – 14 December 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development , which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

27 June 2022 – 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development , which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

14 December 2021 – 15 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia
14 October 2021
Sarovar Premiere Hotel, online, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Policy seminar
Cash Plus dissemination event
5 October 2021
Hotel Southern Sun Ridgeway, Lusaka, online, Zambia
Past event
Policy seminar
Assessing Presumptive Tax Policy in Uganda

This online event will be organized to introduce the results of an assessment of presumptive tax policy in Uganda. The seminar will cover effect estimates of Uganda's recent presumptive tax reform and recommendations for amending the tax regime in...

26 August 2021
Online, Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 16th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development , which takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

30 June 2021 – 2 July 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
SA-TIED policy dialogue – Macroeconomics and inequality in South Africa
29 June 2021
Online, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
Linkages between Special Economic Zone investments and the local economy
19 June 2021
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Policy seminar
SA-TIED policy dialogue — International trade and global value chains
28 May 2021
Online, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
SA-TIED policy dialogue — Climate-related investments: now or later?
12 May 2021
Online, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
SA-TIED policy dialogue – Tax and benefit responses to COVID-19 in South Africa
19 April 2021
Online, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
4 March 2020
Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy

The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...

6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Policy seminar
Changing technologies and the jobs of tomorrow

Watch the live stream recording United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize a three-day...

12 September 2019
United Nations Conference Centre, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue and Klong Phadung Krungkasem Road, Bangkok, Thailand
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