The world at crossroads – securing the future generations

The WIDER Development Conference on securing the future generations is 14–16 May 2024, in Maputo, Mozambique.

Read more
crossroads_conf

Andrea Vaccaro on how (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states

Andrea Vaccaro presents at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 March 2024. According to the prevailing paradigm in international development policy, well-functioning state institutions play a crucial role in facilitating effective international aid. Despite a significant increase in the number of fragile countries in recent years, there has been however limited progress in understanding how aid can be made more effective in these contexts. Our study argues that one of the main obstacles to this progress lies in the conceptualization and measurement of state fragility.

Read more

WIDER Seminar Series

The WIDER Seminar Series has returned! Beginning in March, join either online or in person for the 2024 season of this exciting event series to hear the latest research in development.

Register now

52 past and upcoming events

View as

Filter by...

Reset all
Status
Type
Project
Presentation
Assessing the macroeconomic impact of power outages in South Africa with Richard Kima

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, Richard Kima presents his work-in-progress Working Paper titled ‘Estimating the Macroeconomic Costs of Power Outages in South Africa at the South African Reserve Bank Research’ Seminar on April 11, 2024, and at the...

Mon, 6 May 2024
Online, 238 Mazisi Kunene Rd, Glenwood, 4041, Durban, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Presentation of SA-TIED Working Paper on Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

Carol Newman, co-academic lead for SA-TIED's Workstream 1 on Enterprise development for job creation and growth, will present an SA-TIED Working Paper titled "Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective" at the...

Fri, 12 April 2024
Newman Building (NTh 1), University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Past event
Presentation
IIPF 2023 conference search image. Image: Solotravelgoals / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at IIPF Conference 2023
Mon, 14 August 2023 – Wed, 16 August 2023
Utah State University, Logan, United States
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 2023 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
Tue, 13 June 2023 – Thu, 15 June 2023
School of Business, Economics and Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg, Sweden
Past event
Project workshop
SA-TIED technical workshop on the strengths and limitations of long-term structural models
Mon, 28 November 2022
Development Bank of South Africa Head Office in Midrand, 1258 Lever Rd, Headway Hill, Midrand, South Africa
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 Strategy...

Mon, 27 June 2022 – Tue, 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
Tue, 2 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Training on secure data and metadata management

SA-TIED held a 4-day online course on secure data and metadata management. The online course was designed for data managers at data centres responsible for restricted-access data in government agencies, universities, and research institutions –...

Mon, 2 August 2021 – Thu, 5 August 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Training on data analysis using R

SA-TIED held a 3-day online course on introduction to data analysis using R. The aim of the course was to build the capacity of South African officials to manage and use economic data to carry out policy-relevant research in their day-to-day work for...

Mon, 21 June 2021 – Wed, 23 June 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Rod Crompton and Heinrich Bohlmann on Petrol Price Regulation
Tue, 19 January 2021
Online, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
Wed, 2 December 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Neryvia Pillay Bell and Harry Kemp on the elasticity of taxable income, new data and estimates for South Africa.
Tue, 17 November 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Workshop
Training on statistical software Stata in Myanmar

As part of the Towards inclusive development in Myanmar programme, an introductory course to Stata and to data extraction was organised for selected staff at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Six training sessions...

Mon, 26 October 2020 – Mon, 16 November 2020
Online, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Policy workshop
SA-TIED workshop: Tax revenue mobilization in South Africa

Following the success of the August seminar on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa, SA-TIED hosted a workshop to discuss the issue further between programme stakeholders including staff from the South African...

Wed, 7 October 2020
Online,
Past event
Seminar
Anthony Black and Reena das Nair present on agro-processing and inclusive agricultural value chains
Tue, 22 September 2020
South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Virtual launch of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey (2019) report

A virtual launch of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey (2019) report will take place on the 1st of September 2020. The online launch event will bring together policy-makers, representatives from international organizations and...

Tue, 1 September 2020
Past event
Seminar
Estian Calitz and Ada Jansen present on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa
Wed, 26 August 2020
South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Bjørn Bo Sørensen presents online seminar on how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exports
Thu, 13 August 2020
South Africa
Past event
Workshop
Online introduction to SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model
Wed, 22 July 2020 – Mon, 31 August 2020
Past event
Workshop
Training on Business Practice Intervention Survey in Myanmar
Mon, 24 February 2020 – Sat, 29 February 2020
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Workshop
Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) development: Excel workshop

As part of the research collaboration with the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar, UNU-WIDER and the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) of the University of Copenhagen, a workshop was...

Mon, 27 January 2020 – Thu, 30 January 2020
CSO, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at Myanmar statistics forum
Fri, 29 November 2019
Grand Amara Hotel (Pinya Hall), Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
Training on data cleaning and analysis in Myanmar

As part of the research collaboration with the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar, UNU-WIDER and the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) of the University of Copenhagen, two workshops...

Mon, 18 November 2019 – Fri, 22 November 2019
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Policy workshop
Policy dialogues — Fiscal planning, effective revenue mobilization, and the role of collaborative research in policy evaluation
Thu, 7 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Project workshop
Public revenue mobilization for inclusive development — Work in progress meeting
Wed, 6 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Project meeting
Sixth steering committee meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)
Tue, 17 September 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
Building a Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar: Hands-on experience workshop

A two-week training course took place at the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen to develop a prototype 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Myanmar.

Mon, 29 July 2019 – Fri, 9 August 2019
Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Project workshop
Economy-wide impact analysis using a pre-prototype 2015 Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar

A training event on using economy-wide impact analysis with a pre-prototype 2015 Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar was delivered for 13 policy analysts of the Ministry of Planning and Finance group of public sector institutions in Myanmar.

Mon, 20 May 2019 – Fri, 24 May 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
Inclusive development in Myanmar: 3rd KoBo Toolbox training

As part of the project Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar, a comprehensive Kobo Toolbox training was delivered for 23 staff members from the head office and regional offices the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning...

Mon, 8 April 2019 – Wed, 10 April 2019
Central Statistical Organization, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project meeting
Fifth Steering Committee Meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)

The fifth Steering Committee Meeting on Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS) took place on 26 March at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyidaw, Myanmar. The meeting is part of the on-going project 'Towards inclusive...

Tue, 26 March 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyitaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Presentation
Launching Ceremony of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Qualitative Study Report (2018)

On 26 March the results and outcomes of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Qualitative Study Report (2018), SAM engagement, and four in-depth Studies were presented at a launching ceremony in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The meeting brought...

Tue, 26 March 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyitaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
Inclusive development in Myanmar: 2nd KoBo Toolbox training

As part of the project Towards Inclusive Development in Myanmar, a comprehensive Kobo Toolbox training was delivered for 25 staff members of the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar. This was a...

Thu, 21 March 2019 – Sat, 23 March 2019
Central Statistical Organization, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Displaying 32 of 52 results