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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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...

Mon, 27 June 2022 – Tue, 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues V

A fifth researcher seminar on the topic of extractives and domestic revenue mobilisation will be held on 27 April 2022 from 16:00-18:00 (UTC +3). The event, "Fiscal Regime Reforms in the Extractives Sector," will be hosted jointly by UNU-WIDER and...

Wed, 27 April 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th 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 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

Tue, 14 December 2021 – Wed, 15 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues IV

A fourth research seminar on extractives and domestic revenue mobilisation titled Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues takes place on 9 December 2021 at 3pm Helsinki time (UTC +2). The online event is hosted jointly by UNU-WIDER and the...

Thu, 9 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues III
Tue, 31 August 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 16th 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 takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

Wed, 30 June 2021 – Fri, 2 July 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues II
Wed, 26 May 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Policy seminar
Policy Seminar - Launch of the report 'Characteristics of the Vietnamese rural economy: Evidence from a 2016 rural household survey in 12 provinces of Viet Nam'
Tue, 7 November 2017
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), 68 Phan Dinh Phung Str., Hanoi, Vietnam
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Policy seminar
Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam

Policy makers, researchers, and students of development will gather on 4 May 2017 in Hanoi to discuss the new UNU-WIDER book, Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move.

Thu, 4 May 2017
Main Hall, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), 68 Phan Dinh Phung Str., Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Policy seminar
Launching the Viet Nam 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)
Wed, 16 November 2016
Conference room D, CIEM, 68, Phan Dinh Phung, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Seminar
Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment: evidence from a SME Survey in 2015
Wed, 9 November 2016
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), 68 Phan Dinh Phung, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Seminar
Seminar - Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment

Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and UNU-WIDER co-organized a seminar to present and discuss the findings of the 2015 Small and Medium Enterprises Survey on 5 May 2016, in Hanoi. The report provides an overview of key facts from the...

Thu, 5 May 2016
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), 68 Phan Dinh Phung, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Policy seminar
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Vietnam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
Wed, 5 August 2015
Central Institute for Economic Management, Main Hall, 68 Phan Dinh Phung Str. Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
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