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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Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative East Africa follow-up meeting

Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, presents and runs a training at the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) East Africa regional follow-up technical meeting on tax expenditures in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 6-8 December 2023. The regional meeting is...

6 December 2023 – 8 December 2023
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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New York scryscraper silhouette search image. Image: Zach Miles / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at the Dialogue on Tax and SDGs conference
14 November 2023 – 17 November 2023
Online, New York, United States
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ATI workshop in Accra 2023 Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative West Africa regional follow-up meeting
18 September 2023 – 20 September 2023
Accra, Ghana
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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
29 August 2023 – 31 August 2023
Johari Rotana Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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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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Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative General Assembly

Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow and Jonathan Msoni, Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Economist give a presentation at the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) General Assembly in Lusaka, Zambia on 22 June 2023. Amina Ebrahim and Jonathan Msoni are...

22 June 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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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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UNU-WIDER tax research presented at the CSAE Conference

The annual conference of the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies is organised 19-21 March 2023 in Oxford, UK. This year the theme of the conference is Economic Development in Africa. UNU-WIDER Research Assistants Enrico...

19 March 2023 – 21 March 2023
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Laban Simbeye on how formal firms in Zambia recovered from the pandemic

The 2022 Jobs & Development Conference The Challenge of Creating Better Jobs in Developing Countries is organised on 14-15 December in Cape Town. Laban Simbeye, researcher from Zambia Revenue Authority, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper...

14 December 2022
Cape Town, South Africa
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UNU-WIDER at the Global Development Conference 2022

UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development programme on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) is presented at the Global Development Conference, which takes place on 2-4 November in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

2 November 2022 – 4 November 2022
University of Clermont-Auvergne, 23 Avenue Léon Blum, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative East Africa workshop

Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, gives a presentation at the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) East Africa workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, on 19 October 2022. The workshop is organized by ATI in collaboration with the African Tax Administration Forum...

18 October 2022 – 19 October 2022
Nairobi, Kenya
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Caroline Schimanski on taxing multinational corporations in Uganda

World Bank's hybrid conference on global tax equity is organized on 22-23 September 2022. Caroline Schimanski, a World Bank and African Development Bank consultant, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper at the conference. The topic of...

22 September 2022
Hybrid, United States
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UNU-WIDER's tax administrative data work presented at the launch of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research
1 September 2022 – 2 September 2022
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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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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Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative West Africa workshop
27 July 2022 – 28 July 2022
Lilygate hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
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Jukka Pirttilä on personal income tax reform in Uganda

Jukka Pirttilä, UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, gives a presentation at the Tax for Development webinar series on 5 April 2022 (CET). The webinar series is hosted by Chr. Michelsen Institute. The topic of Pirttilä's presentation is...

5 April 2022
Online, Oslo, Norway
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