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.

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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.

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20th Annual Nordic Conference in Development Economics

The 20th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE 2022) will be held in Helsinki on June 15-16, 2022. This yearly conference serves as a meeting point for development economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more...

15 June 2022 – 16 June 2022
Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki, Finland
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Panel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual Convention

UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...

29 March 2022
Online, Nashville, United States
Past event
Project workshop
3rd Annual workshop: Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust
22 April 2021 – 23 April 2021
Online, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Panel discussion
Patricia Justino at What Works Global Summit 2020

On October 30, 2020, UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino will be taking part in a panel discussion at What Works Global Summit 2020. The topic of the panel is "In fragile situations, which interventions strengthen intergroup social...

30 October 2020
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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...

26 October 2020 – 16 November 2020
Online, Myanmar (Burma)
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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...

1 September 2020
Past event
Seminar
Africa’s lockdown dilemma — high poverty and low trust

On 16 July 2020, two researchers of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme, Ivan Manhique and Ricardo Santos, will present their current research.

16 July 2020
Zoom, Maputo, Mozambique
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Seminar
Eva-Maria Egger and Ricardo Santos on COVID-19 and Africa's lockdown dilemma
23 June 2020
Past event
Project workshop
Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust: 2nd Annual Workshop

More than 30 participants attended the 2nd annual workshop for ‘Trust and Governance’ project, held virtually on the 16th and 17th April 2020. The workshop was initially set to be held in Colombia but had to be moved to a virtual environment through...

16 April 2020 – 17 April 2020
Virtual (Zoom),
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Workshop
Training on Business Practice Intervention Survey in Myanmar
24 February 2020 – 29 February 2020
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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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...

27 January 2020 – 30 January 2020
CSO, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER at Myanmar statistics forum
29 November 2019
Grand Amara Hotel (Pinya Hall), Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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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...

18 November 2019 – 22 November 2019
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Project meeting
Sixth steering committee meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)
17 September 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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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.

29 July 2019 – 9 August 2019
Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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.

20 May 2019 – 24 May 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
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