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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Andrea Vaccaro on how (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states
20 March 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the CERDI research seminar

UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the research seminar of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), on 5 December 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.He presents the WIDER Working Paper...

5 December 2023
26 avenue Léon Blum, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Past event
Seminar
Aid effectiveness in fragile states

UNU-WIDER researchers offer a seminar on aid effectiveness in fragile states to an audience of Swedish development officials and foreign officers. The seminar is organized by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

23 May 2023
Online, Sweden
Past event
Webinar
Paving the way for fiscal capacity
21 March 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Conference
International Research Conference on the Effectiveness of Development Cooperation

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC), and the European Commission (DG INTPA), is jointly organizing an international research...

17 November 2022 – 18 November 2022
Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
Past event
Presentation
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
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 63rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE)

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents at the 63rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), held on October 20-22, 2022 in Turin, Italy. See programme on the organisers' website. At the...

20 October 2022 – 22 October 2022
Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia to deliver keynote presentation at the 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB)

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the upcoming 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB). ICOB 2022, themed...

27 September 2022 – 29 September 2022
IUS Campus, Hrasnička cesta 15, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Past event
Panel discussion
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...

16 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal , Montreal, Canada
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Presentation
Kunal Sen to present at TaxCapDev conference

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen presents at the TaxCapDev conference Power and Politics – Perspectives on Taxation and State Building in Africa on 1-2 September 2022, held in Bergen, Norway. Kunal Sen will participate in two panels over the course of...

1 September 2022 – 2 September 2022
Terminus Hall, Grand Terminus Hotel, Zander Kaaes gate 6, Bergen, Norway
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Presentation
Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC)

Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem presents recently published research on Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run in the upcoming 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC), held in Paris on 25-29 July 2022. He joins a parallel session on...

29 July 2022
Campus Condorcet, 8, cour des Humanités, Aubervilliers, France
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Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 22nd AISSEC Conference

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the 22nd Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati (AISSEC)...

17 June 2022
G. D’Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 31, Pescara, Italy
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Conference
20th Annual Nordic Conference in Development Economics

The 20th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE 2022) will be held in Helsinki on June 15-16, 2022. This yearly conference serves as a meeting point for development economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more...

15 June 2022 – 16 June 2022
Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Antonio Savoia at the 5th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship

Antonio Savoia presents his recently published research on Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run in the upcoming 5th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (PEDD). The conference is...

24 February 2022
Online, United States
Past event
Workshop
Subnational governance in Ghana – does decentralization improve democratic outcomes?

UNU-WIDER researchers in The state and statebuilding in the Global South — international and local interactions project attend an authors’ workshop at the London School of Economics. ( Download programme). Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel Chachu, and...

13 December 2021 – 14 December 2021
Online, United Kingdom
Past event
Panel discussion
Developing Fiscal States in Africa
2 December 2021
Online, France
Past event
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