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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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of power outages in South Africa with Richard Kima

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, Richard Kima presents his work-in-progress Working Paper titled ‘Estimating the Macroeconomic Costs of Power Outages in South Africa at the South African Reserve Bank Research’ Seminar on April 11, 2024, and at the...

Mon, 6 May 2024
Online, 238 Mazisi Kunene Rd, Glenwood, 4041, Durban, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Presentation of SA-TIED Working Paper on Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

Carol Newman, co-academic lead for SA-TIED's Workstream 1 on Enterprise development for job creation and growth, will present an SA-TIED Working Paper titled "Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective" at the...

Fri, 12 April 2024
Newman Building (NTh 1), University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Past event
Presentation
IIPF 2023 conference search image. Image: Solotravelgoals / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at IIPF Conference 2023
Mon, 14 August 2023 – Wed, 16 August 2023
Utah State University, Logan, United States
Past event
Presentation
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
Past event
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on examining Tanzanian health policies through a gender lens

The Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) group of The Open University organises a one-day webinar on International Women's Day. The topic of the webinar is Health and care at the crossroads: evidencing gender impacts, campaigning for equality...

Wed, 8 March 2023
Online, United Kingdom
Past event
Project workshop
SA-TIED technical workshop on the strengths and limitations of long-term structural models
Mon, 28 November 2022
Development Bank of South Africa Head Office in Midrand, 1258 Lever Rd, Headway Hill, Midrand, South Africa
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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Seminar
Samwel J. Kabote and Jires Tunguhole on the determinants of clove exports in Zanzibar

Samwel J. Kabote and Jires Tunguhole give a presentation on 10 December at 10-11am (UTC+2) as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation is held as a webinar, in...

Fri, 10 December 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in Tanzania

The virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in the...

Mon, 22 November 2021
online, South Africa
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Presentation
Ayu Pratiwi and Milla Nyyssölä on land rights and inter-generational resource allocations in Tanzania

On 17 November 2021 Turku University researcher Ayu Pratiwi and UNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research. The topic of their presentation is A long-term...

Wed, 17 November 2021
online, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
Tue, 2 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social protection and gender in Tanzania

On 29 September 2021 UNU-WIDER researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research. The topic of their presentation is Social protection and gender in Tanzania -...

Wed, 29 September 2021
online, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Training on secure data and metadata management

SA-TIED held a 4-day online course on secure data and metadata management. The online course was designed for data managers at data centres responsible for restricted-access data in government agencies, universities, and research institutions –...

Mon, 2 August 2021 – Thu, 5 August 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Workshop
Training on data analysis using R

SA-TIED held a 3-day online course on introduction to data analysis using R. The aim of the course was to build the capacity of South African officials to manage and use economic data to carry out policy-relevant research in their day-to-day work for...

Mon, 21 June 2021 – Wed, 23 June 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Linkages between Special Economic Zone investments and the local economy
Sat, 19 June 2021
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Seminar
Maureen Odongo on gender disparities and financial inclusion in Tanzania

Maureen Odongo gave a presentation on 15 April 2021, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar, in collaboration with UONGOZI Institute...

Thu, 15 April 2021
Past event
Seminar
Emanoel Alfred on the effectiveness of strategic environment assessment in promoting sustainable development in Tanzania

Emanoel Alfred gave a presentation on 15 April 2021, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project, on his research study co-authored with Joseph Qamara. The presentation was held as a...

Thu, 15 April 2021
Past event
Seminar
Nandera Mhando and Nasibu Mramba on improving young women’s working conditions in Tanzania’s urban food vending sector

Nandera Mhando and Nasibu Mramba gave a presentation on 14 April 2021, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar, in collaboration with...

Wed, 14 April 2021
Past event
Seminar
Rod Crompton and Heinrich Bohlmann on Petrol Price Regulation
Tue, 19 January 2021
Online, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
Wed, 2 December 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Neryvia Pillay Bell and Harry Kemp on the elasticity of taxable income, new data and estimates for South Africa.
Tue, 17 November 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Policy workshop
SA-TIED workshop: Tax revenue mobilization in South Africa

Following the success of the August seminar on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa, SA-TIED hosted a workshop to discuss the issue further between programme stakeholders including staff from the South African...

Wed, 7 October 2020
Online,
Past event
Seminar
Anthony Black and Reena das Nair present on agro-processing and inclusive agricultural value chains
Tue, 22 September 2020
South Africa
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Seminar
Estian Calitz and Ada Jansen present on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa
Wed, 26 August 2020
South Africa
Past event
Seminar
William Pallangyo on the safety of women traders in the informal sector in Tanzania

William Pallangyo gave a presentation on 19 August 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - The informal sector and safety...

Wed, 19 August 2020
Past event
Seminar
Abel Kinyondo and Chris Huggins on promoting environmental sustainability in the Tanzanian small-scale mining sector

Abel Kinyondo and Chris Huggins gave a presentation on 19 August 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract – Promoting...

Wed, 19 August 2020
Past event
Seminar
Bjørn Bo Sørensen presents online seminar on how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exports
Thu, 13 August 2020
South Africa
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Workshop
Online introduction to SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model
Wed, 22 July 2020 – Mon, 31 August 2020
Past event
Seminar
Vincent Leyaro on inter and intra industry trade effects of East Africa custom union in Tanzania

Vincent Leyaro gave a presentation on 27 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract – Inter and intra industry trade...

Wed, 27 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Vincent Leyaro on distributional impacts of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard rated items in Tanzania

Vincent Leyaro gave a presentation on 20 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - Assessing the distributional impact...

Wed, 20 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Amrita Saha on trade, technology and absorptive capacity of Tanzanian textiles and apparel companies

Amrita Saha gave a presentation on 20 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - Trade, technology and absorptive...

Wed, 20 May 2020
Past event
Seminar
Bethuel Kinuthia on input subsidy schemes and agricultural productivity in Tanzania

Bethuel Kinuthia gave a presentation on 13 May 2020, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar. Abstract - The impact of input subsidy...

Wed, 13 May 2020
Past event
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