Presentation

UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the research seminar of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), on 5 December 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.He presents the WIDER Working Paper...

Webinar

Presentation

UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development programme on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) is presented at the Global Development Conference, which takes place on 2-4 November in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Presentation

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents at the 63rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), held on October 20-22, 2022 in Turin, Italy. See programme on the organisers' website. At the...

Presentation

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the upcoming 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB). ICOB 2022, themed...

Panel discussion

On 16 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Fiscal States in Developing Countries: Origins and Developmental Implications. The panel...

Presentation

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen presents at the TaxCapDev conference Power and Politics – Perspectives on Taxation and State Building in Africa on 1-2 September 2022, held in Bergen, Norway. Kunal Sen will participate in two panels over the course of...

Presentation

Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem presents recently published research on Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run in the upcoming 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC), held in Paris on 25-29 July 2022. He joins a parallel session on...

Presentation

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the 22nd Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati (AISSEC)...

Presentation

Antonio Savoia presents his recently published research on Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run in the upcoming 5th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (PEDD). The conference is...

Panel discussion

Panel discussion

Presentation

Antonio Savoia presents his ongoing research on Political Institutions and Tax Revenues in the Long Run in the upcoming 62nd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE). The conference is held online on 26-29 October 2021. Dr...

Presentation

Abrams M.E. Tagem, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, presents at the Nordic Conference in Development Economics, which takes place online 15-16 June 2021, On 16 June 2021, Abrams Tagem presents his research on the long-run relationship between...

Project workshop

Presentation

On 7 December, 2020, Professor James Robinson will gave a presentation at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) 53rd plenary session “The Covid-19 Pandemic and Public Finance in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities”. The title of his...

Workshop

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...

Presentation

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...

Workshop

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...

Presentation

Project 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, two workshops...

Project meeting

Project 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.

Project workshop

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.

Project workshop

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...

Project meeting

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...

Presentation

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...

Project workshop

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...

Workshop

Using the Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey (MSME) Dataset, around 30 participants from the Central Statistical Organization of Myanmar will receive training on report writing.

Workshop

Workshop

In August 2018, UNU-WIDER and the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar signed an agreement to develop a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and to conduct economy-wide analysis using the SAM for the...