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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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Image: Imani Nsamila / UNU-WIDER UNU-WIDER DRM research presented at the 8th Annual Congress of the African Tax Research Network
Tue, 29 August 2023 – Thu, 31 August 2023
Johari Rotana Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Webinar
Tax effort revisited: How much tax can low-income countries expect to collect?
Tue, 13 September 2022
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen joins the launch of the World Investment Report 2022

On 9 June UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen, speaks at the launch of the 2022 World Investment Report. ABOUT UNCTAD’s annual World Investment Report monitors global and regional foreign direct investment (FDI) trends and presents key national and...

Thu, 9 June 2022
Online, Zurich , Switzerland
Past event
Lecture
Abrams M.E. Tagem delivers lecture at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

On Friday, 13 May 2022 9:00-10:30 (UTC+2), Abrams M.E. Tagem will deliver a lecture at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. The lecture, entitled "The Government Revenue Dataset," will be attended by audience is mostly...

Fri, 13 May 2022
Online, Vienna, Austria
Past event
Project workshop
Workshop: Data for tax revenue mobilisation
Thu, 28 April 2022
Online, Helsinki , Finland
Past event
Lecture
IEA seminar — Digital Technologies: Limits and Opportunities for Economic Development

A discussion featuring Dani Rodrik, Daren Acemoglu, Mahdi Ghodsi, Kunal Sen, Albert Park, and Haroon Bhorat. These leading economists discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of technology in shaping welfare outcomes in developing...

Tue, 12 October 2021
Online, Finland
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Presentation
Kunal Sen joins webinar on BRICS and Emerging Economies

Hear from some of the world’s leading experts on BRICS and Emerging Economies at the launch event of the Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies

Thu, 20 May 2021
Online,
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Presentation
Kunal Sen contributes to UNIDO’s High-level Expert Consultation for the Industrial Development Report 2022

On 18 May UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen, joins UNIDO’s High-Level Expert Consultation (HLEC) on Manufacturing responses to COVID-19: Lessons for governance and policy coordination in the face of global disasters. Kunal will present recent research...

Tue, 18 May 2021
Online, United States
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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...

Mon, 26 October 2020 – Mon, 16 November 2020
Online, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
Project workshop
Clientelist politics and economic development
Thu, 15 October 2020 – Fri, 16 October 2020
Virtual, Helsinki , Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Clientelist politics and development panel at APSA 2020 annual meeting

On 10 September UNU-WIDER will be participating in a panel at the 2020 APSA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition, on the topic of Clientelist Politics and Development. The panel, chaired by UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist...

Thu, 10 September 2020
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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...

Tue, 1 September 2020
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Workshop
Training on Business Practice Intervention Survey in Myanmar
Mon, 24 February 2020 – Sat, 29 February 2020
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
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...

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

Mon, 18 November 2019 – Fri, 22 November 2019
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
Past event
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