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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Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion

Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at the BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion: Resilience, Depolarization and Inclusion organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Her participation in the event will include dissemination of key findings from UNU...

21 September 2023 – 22 September 2023
Landgut Stober, Behnitzer Dorfstraße 27-31, Nauen, Germany
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UNU-WIDER shares latest DRM research at the IIPF 2022 Conference
10 August 2022 – 12 August 2022
University of Linz, Linz, Austria
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Conference
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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Miguel Nino-Zarazua and Rachel Gisselquist presenting to Finland's Development Policy Committee

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER are presenting to the Development Policy Committee of Finland on 2 September 2021 at 14:00 (UTC+3). The subject of...

2 September 2021
Online, Finland
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Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for OECD GovNet

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid at...

15 April 2021
Online, France
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Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for USAID

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid at...

24 March 2021
Online, United States
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Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for DEval

On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 16:00 CET, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report Effects of...

11 March 2021
Online, Bonn, Germany
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Presentation
Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for IFES

On Friday, 19 February 2021 at 08.30 EST, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report Effects of...

19 February 2021
Online, United States
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Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for ICLD

On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at 13:00 Stockholm time, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report...

16 February 2021
Online, Stockholm, Sweden
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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Rachel M. Gisselquist presenting on Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid for CONCORD Sweden

In December 2020, Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) published a new report titled "Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid". The research behind the report was carried out by researchers from the United Nations University World Institute...

27 January 2021
Online, Sweden
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Seminar
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Rachel M. Gisselquist at Democracy aid: any effects?
10 December 2020
Online, Stockholm, Sweden
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Workshop
Third training on TAZMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania

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...

9 March 2020 – 11 March 2020
ILO Office, Kazi House, Maktaba Street, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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ECUAMOD model presented in Quito
11 December 2019 – 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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Workshop
Third training on MicroZAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia
3 December 2019 – 5 December 2019
Legacy Lodge & Conference Centre, Meanwood Ibex Hill, Lusaka, Zambia
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Policy workshop
GHAMOD policy workshop 2019

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.

1 November 2019
The Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research at the University of Ghana, 74 Legon, Botanical Gardens Rd., Accra, Ghana
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SOUTHMOD model presented in Turin
21 October 2019 – 1 November 2019
International Training Centre of the ILO, Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10, Turin, Italy
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