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
Webinar
Corruption and theft in the global oil and gas sector
Tue, 18 April 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Research on mandatory disclosure rules presented at the University of Münster

Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the University of Münster's Economic Research Seminar on 14 December 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and...

Wed, 14 December 2022
University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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
Workshop
Workshop on illicit financial flows

UNU-WIDER together with the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH-DERG) organizes an in-person workshop on illicit financial flows (IFFs) at the University of Copenhagen on 25-26 October 2022.

Tue, 25 October 2022 – Wed, 26 October 2022
University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the EU Tax Observatory Lunch Seminar

Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the EU Tax Observatory lunch seminar on 5 October 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and yet so far: The...

Wed, 5 October 2022
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
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Presentation
Elisa Casi-Eberhard on mandatory disclosure regimes

World Bank's hybrid conference on global tax equity is organized on 22-23 September 2022. Elisa Casi-Eberhard, a Norwegian School of Economics Assistant Professor, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper at the conference. The topic of Casi...

Thu, 22 September 2022 – Fri, 23 September 2022
Hybrid, United States
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Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Ninth Annual Mannheim Taxation Conference

The ninth edition of the Annual MannheimTaxation Conference takes place in person in Mannheim, Germany on 8–9 September 2022. Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper in the...

Thu, 8 September 2022 – Fri, 9 September 2022
Mannheim, Germany
Past event
Presentation
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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Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Early Researchers Consortium in Accounting

The Accounting Research Groups at the UPF Barcelona School of Management (Spain), Free University of Bolzano (Italy) and University of Padua (Italy) organise the fifth edition of the Accounting Summer Camp in Barcelona on July 13-15 2022. Researcher...

Wed, 13 July 2022 – Thu, 14 July 2022
UPF-BSM, Barcelona, Spain
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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
Past event
Project workshop
Author workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...

Wed, 22 June 2022 – Thu, 30 June 2022
Online, Denmark
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
Project workshop
Workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss the first drafts of the papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the...

Wed, 1 September 2021 – Thu, 2 September 2021
Online, Copenhagen, Denmark
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
Past event
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
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Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - 2nd network meeting

As part of the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, we have established an informal network of leading international researchers working on the topic of international tax and illicit financial flows. The second meeting of the...

Wed, 3 March 2021
Online, Denmark
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
Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - 1st network meeting
Thu, 12 November 2020
Online, Denmark
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
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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
Past event
Workshop
Online introduction to SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model
Wed, 22 July 2020 – Mon, 31 August 2020
Past event
Policy workshop
Policy dialogues — Fiscal planning, effective revenue mobilization, and the role of collaborative research in policy evaluation
Thu, 7 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Project workshop
Public revenue mobilization for inclusive development — Work in progress meeting
Wed, 6 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
SA-TIED Young Scholars poster session
Thu, 31 January 2019
The Sheraton Pretoria Hotel, 643 Corner, Stanza Bopape St, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
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