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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The WIDER Seminar Series has returned! Beginning in March, join either online or in person for the 2024 season of this exciting event series to hear the latest research in development.

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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...

12 April 2024
Newman Building (NTh 1), University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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IIPF 2023 conference search image. Image: Solotravelgoals / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at IIPF Conference 2023
14 August 2023 – 16 August 2023
Utah State University, Logan, United States
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 2023 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
13 June 2023 – 15 June 2023
School of Business, Economics and Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society

On 6-9 December 2022, UNU-WIDER joins the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE). On Thursday 8 December, the programme includes a special session on ‘Inequality and development’ featuring recent research from UNU-WIDER's WIID and...

6 December 2022 – 9 December 2022
Gran Mareiro Hotel, Fortaleza, Brazil
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Project workshop
SA-TIED technical workshop on the strengths and limitations of long-term structural models
28 November 2022
Development Bank of South Africa Head Office in Midrand, 1258 Lever Rd, Headway Hill, Midrand, South Africa
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Project workshop
World Income Inequality Database (WIID) authors' workshop

UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database research project holds a virtual workshop that brings together researchers selected under the project's open call for research proposals. The selected papers fulfill a project aim to improve understanding...

4 July 2022 – 5 July 2022
Virtual, Finland
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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...

27 June 2022 – 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Policy workshop
World Income Inequality Database project presents at the OECD's DAC Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities (CoP-PI) hosts several thematic dialogues between researchers and practitioners on embedding...

25 March 2022
Online, United States
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Workshop
Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward Fairer

The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite speakers...

3 December 2021
Online, Bangkok, Thailand
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Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
2 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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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 –...

2 August 2021 – 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...

21 June 2021 – 23 June 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Carlos Gradín presents session at the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities Final Conference

What do we know about socio-economic inequalities in emerging and developing countries? How are they changing? What are the causes and consequences? How can they be reduced? How can they be taken into account in development policies in the current...

22 March 2021 – 24 March 2021
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Seminar
Rod Crompton and Heinrich Bohlmann on Petrol Price Regulation
19 January 2021
Online, South Africa
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Seminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
2 December 2020
Online, South Africa
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Seminar
Neryvia Pillay Bell and Harry Kemp on the elasticity of taxable income, new data and estimates for South Africa.
17 November 2020
Online, South Africa
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