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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Deepak Nayyar lecture at LSE on Resurgent Asia

The lecture will analyse the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago. In doing so, it provides an analytical narrative of this remarkable story of economic development...

4 March 2020
LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE, 1 Charing Cross, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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Lecture
Delhi School of Economics lecture on economic development in Asia, by Deepak Nayyar

On 14 January Professor Deepak Nayyar will attend the Delhi School of Economics to give a lecture on ‘Economic development in Asia: Learning from half a century of transformation’. The lecture draws from his recently published book, Resurgent Asia...

14 January 2020
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India
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Panel discussion
Asian Transformations panel discussion at India International Centre

On 23 December, Professor Deepak Nayyar, editor of Asian Transformations, led a panel discussion on the recent publication at the India International Centre in New Delhi. The book, Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations...

23 December 2019
India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
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Panel discussion
Oxford University Press hosts a conversation on Resurgent Asia

Over 250 people attended the launch of the new open access book Resurgent Asia at the Oxford University Press headquarters in New Delhi on 27 November. The event featured a presentation by author, Professor Deepak Nayyar, and was followed by an...

27 November 2019
India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
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Seminar
Asia's remarkable transformation and rise: lessons for latecomers to, and laggards in, development

On 13 November, Professor Deepak Nayyar will deliver a lecture at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) based on his newly released book, Resurgent Asia. Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus Asian Drama in 1968, to...

14 November 2019
Sida , Valhallavägen 199 , Stockholm, Sweden
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Lecture
Economic development in Asia: Learning from a half-century of transformations
13 November 2019
IIES, A822, Universitetsvägen 10, 114 18 , Stockholm, Sweden
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Workshop
Research collaboration on Ugandan administrative tax data

UNU-WIDER organized a two-day work-in-progress workshop jointly with Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). The workshop was an internal meeting with collaborators contributing to research activities in Uganda related to increasing the use of the tax...

23 October 2019 – 24 October 2019
Uganda Revenue Authority premises, Plot M193/M194, Nakawa industrial area, Kampala, Uganda
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Project workshop
Authors’ workshop on Asian Transformation

Authors for the Volume II of the book published under the Asian Transformations project meet in Shanghai, China on 29-30 June 2018 to discuss the book's chapters final drafts.

29 June 2018 – 30 June 2018
Fudan University, 600 Guoquan Road, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Project workshop
Work-in-progress workshop: Tax-benefit microsimulation analysis

UNU-WIDER is organizing a project workshop to discuss research papers currently being written on tax-benefit microsimulation analysis under the SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development project.

14 June 2018
UNU-WIDER Library, Katajanokanlaituri 6B, Helsinki, Finland
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Project workshop
SOUTHMOD workshop 2018

Under the SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development project UNU-WIDER is organizing a workshop for project contributors. The workshop is an opportunity for representatives of the country teams from Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana...

13 June 2018
UNU-WIDER Library, Katajanokanlaituri 6B, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Asian transformation – an inquiry into the development of nations
16 April 2018
United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York 10017, United States
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Project meeting
Authors meeting for Asian Transformation project

Authors for the Volume II of the book published under the Asian Transformations project meet in Hanoi, Vietnam on 9 – 10 March 2018 to discuss first drafts of the book’s chapters.

9 March 2018 – 10 March 2018
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Building D, 68 Phan Đinh Phung - Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Seminar
Tax and development - setting the agenda
1 November 2016
Sustainability room, UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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Project workshop
Training course for SOUTHMOD model building

UNU-WIDER arranged a training course on building tax-benefit microsimulation models for researchers and data experts engaged in the new SOUTHMOD - Simulating tax and benefit policies for development project that aims to build new microsimulation...

29 February 2016 – 4 March 2016
Kopanong Hotel and Conference Centre, 243 Glen Gory Road, Benoni, South Africa
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Policy workshop
Using tax administration data for research purposes

UNU-WIDER and International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) organize a policy workshop on ‘Using tax administration data for research purposes’ in Addis Ababa, on 9 February 2016. The workshop brings together officials from tax authorities...

9 February 2016
Capital Hotel, Hailegebresilasse Avenue, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Project meeting
UNU-WIDER Symposium - The political economy of social protection in developing countries
8 February 2016 – 10 February 2016
Hilton Mexico City Reforma, Avenida Juárez 70, Cuauhtemoc, Centro, Mexico City, Mexico
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