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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Fiscal States panel at APSA 2022 annual meeting

On 16 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Fiscal States in Developing Countries: Origins and Developmental Implications. The panel...

Fri, 16 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal , Montreal, Canada
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Panel discussion
Developing Fiscal States in Africa
Thu, 2 December 2021
Online, France
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Panel discussion
Développer les États fiscaux en Afrique
Thu, 2 December 2021
Virtuelle, France
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Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at panel on ‘Human insecurity as a threat to human development’ at the UNDP Virtual Human Development Symposium

The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Office of the Human Development Report will host a virtual symposium over four days from 8-11 June on ‘A New Generation of Human Security’. Through a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions...

Thu, 10 June 2021
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Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy

The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...

Thu, 6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Panel discussion
Launch of the UNDP Human Development Report 2019
Fri, 13 December 2019
Think Corner / Tiedekulma, Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki, Finland
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