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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WIDER Seminar Series

The WIDER Seminar Series has returned! Beginning in March, join either online or in person for the 2024 season of this exciting event series to hear the latest research in development.

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Uganda TIN registration form, calculator, currency, pen. Image: Kalungi Kabuye / UNU-WIDER Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
Wed, 15 November 2023
Hotel Protea by Marriott, Elgon Terrace, Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Receipt from a card machine in a grocery store. Image: Imani Nsamila Improved compliance and a renewed social contract for the SDGs
Fri, 10 November 2023
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Seminar
Tax and development workshop
Wed, 26 April 2023 – Thu, 27 April 2023
Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Zambian administrative tax data

In collaboration with the Research and Statistics Unit at the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), UNU-WIDER organizes a dissemination workshop on two studies evaluating tax compliance in Zambia. This event allows all key stakeholders to acquaint...

Wed, 1 March 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Seminar
Launch of the Uganda Revenue Authority secure research lab
Thu, 19 May 2022
Protea Hotel by Marriott, Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
Wed, 4 March 2020
Kampala, Uganda
Past event
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
Past event
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
Past event
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
Past event
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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Seminar
Development Strategy and Policy Analysis on The Economics (and Politics) Behind South Africa’s Carbon Tax

South Africa announced in February 2012 that it will introduce a carbon tax to reduce the country’s high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist in the global effort to curb climate change. This makes South Africa one of the first countries...

Tue, 3 April 2012
UN DESA, New York, United States
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Seminar
Biofuels, Poverty and Gender in Mozambique and Tanzania

For some, biofuels is a development opportunity that could generate economic growth and create jobs in the Africa's often-underperforming rural economies. For others, biofuels is yet another example of 'foreign land-grabbing' in Africa that could...

Wed, 18 January 2012
Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Seminar
Green Growth in Development

In anticipation of the Rio+20 Preparatory Meetings scheduled for March 2011, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNU-WIDER jointly hosted a workshop to discuss the potential benefits and limitations of Green Growth for developing countries.

Wed, 15 December 2010
Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
UNU-WIDER and HECER autumn seminar on climate change adaptation and fair trade agriculture

Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique by James Thurlow & Impacts of Fair Trade in Coffee: Impacts on the Global Coffee Markets by Pertti Haaparanta.

Thu, 18 November 2010
Seminar Room 3-4, Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki, Finland
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