Project workshop

Members of the International Labour Organization, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD team, and the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) meet in Livingstone, Zambia to further develop Zambia's tax and...

Workshop

UNU-WIDER takes part in UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week 21 September 2023. In partnership with UN Youth of Finland and Saferglobe, UNU-WIDER organizes Young voices in peace research.

Panel discussion

Workshop

From 8–9 May 2023, UNU-WIDER holds a research workshop bringing together an international group of researchers with expertise in conflict and peacebuilding to discuss new research that can support policymakers’ discussions on the stabilization...

Presentation

Conference

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...

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Seminar

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Finland organise a special seminar on Violence, Inequality...

Project workshop

As part of the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, project contributors under Theme A1: WWII and the legacies of fascism in Europe come together on 4 November 2021 at 3pm to present and discuss their research papers in...

Presentation

Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) organises their 17th Annual workshop on 11-12 October 2021 under the theme “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement“. UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino is the co-founder and co-director of the...

Presentation

On 29 September 2021 Patricia Justino joins a virtual roundtable ‘The Future of Civil War Studies’ at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. 117th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition will be held on 30 September...

Presentation

Patricia Justino will present on COVID-19 and conflict dynamics at an online event organised by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) on 27 May 2021. The event, Covid-19 effects on peace and conflict dynamics – Implications for the EU...

Presentation

Tillman Hönig, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting his ongong research The Legacy of Conflict: Aggregate Evidence from Sierra Leone at the 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association on 30 April 2021, 2pm CEST. His paper...

Seminar

Presentation

On 4 February 2020, UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino will be giving a presentation at an event organised by Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation Sida as part of their Department for Africa’s planning days. The...

Presentation

Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) is organising their 16th Annual workshop on 10-11 November 2020. UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino is the co-founder and co-director of the HiCN and will co-host the conference. The event will...

Workshop

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with UNU-WIDER, and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) will organize a training event on the TAZMOD model. This third training...

Lecture

The lecture will analyse the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago. In doing so, it provides an analytical narrative of this remarkable story of economic development...

Lecture

On 14 January Professor Deepak Nayyar will attend the Delhi School of Economics to give a lecture on ‘Economic development in Asia: Learning from half a century of transformation’. The lecture draws from his recently published book, Resurgent Asia...

Panel discussion

On 23 December, Professor Deepak Nayyar, editor of Asian Transformations, led a panel discussion on the recent publication at the India International Centre in New Delhi. The book, Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations...

Presentation

Workshop

Panel discussion

Over 250 people attended the launch of the new open access book Resurgent Asia at the Oxford University Press headquarters in New Delhi on 27 November. The event featured a presentation by author, Professor Deepak Nayyar, and was followed by an...

Seminar

On 13 November, Professor Deepak Nayyar will deliver a lecture at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) based on his newly released book, Resurgent Asia. Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama in 1968, to...

Lecture

Policy workshop

Recent research results from analyses using the GHAMOD tax-benefit microsimulation model will be presented in Ghana to policymakers and the interested research community on 1 November. The policy workshop is a part of the SOUTHMOD project.

Presentation

Project workshop

Project workshop

Policy seminar

Project workshop

Project workshop

The goal of this event is to give potential users of the model comprehensive training on the structure and use of the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda, UGAMOD. As well as providing an overview of the model, the event will include several...