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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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
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UNU-WIDER at the Global Development Conference 2022

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.

Wed, 2 November 2022 – Fri, 4 November 2022
University of Clermont-Auvergne, 23 Avenue Léon Blum, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Presentation
Antonio Savoia to deliver keynote presentation at the 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB)

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...

Tue, 27 September 2022 – Thu, 29 September 2022
IUS Campus, Hrasnička cesta 15, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
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UNU-WIDER shares latest DRM research at the IIPF 2022 Conference
Wed, 10 August 2022 – Fri, 12 August 2022
University of Linz, Linz, Austria
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Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC)

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...

Fri, 29 July 2022
Campus Condorcet, 8, cour des Humanités, Aubervilliers, France
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
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Antonio Savoia presenting at the 22nd AISSEC Conference

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)...

Fri, 17 June 2022
G. D’Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 31, Pescara, Italy
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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...

Tue, 14 December 2021 – Wed, 15 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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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...

Wed, 30 June 2021 – Fri, 2 July 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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ECUAMOD model presented in Quito
Wed, 11 December 2019 – Fri, 13 December 2019
The Department of Quantitative Economics of the Faculty of Science of the National Polytechnic School, Av. Ladrón de Guevara 253, Quito, Ecuador
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SOUTHMOD model presented in Turin
Mon, 21 October 2019 – Fri, 1 November 2019
International Training Centre of the ILO, Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10, Turin, Italy
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Policy seminar
Presentation of MOZMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Mozambique
Wed, 3 July 2019
Ministry of Economic and Finance, Julius Nyerere Avenue, Maputo, Mozambique
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Policy seminar
Launch of UGAMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda
Wed, 10 April 2019
Kampala, Uganda
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Presentation
Jukka Pirttilä presents at microsimulation seminar in Helsinki

Professor Jukka Pirttilä, UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, presented at a microsimulation seminar organized by the Ministry of Finance of Finland on 31 October 2018. The goal of the seminar was to discuss the recent research done by...

Wed, 31 October 2018
Säätytalo, Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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Asian transformation – an inquiry into the development of nations
Mon, 16 April 2018
United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York 10017, United States
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Policy seminar
Launch of MicroZAMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia

This event will introduce policy makers, researchers, and practitioners to MicroZAMOD, a new tax-benefit microsimulation programme which has been developed under the UNU-WIDER SOUTHMOD project, in collaboration with Zambia Institute for Policy...

Tue, 21 November 2017
Lusaka, Zambia
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