Project workshop

Researchers will meet in Helsinki on 15-16 February 2018 to discuss their work arising from a recent UNU-WIDER call for papers for detailed economic analysis of the Viet Nam Access to Rural Households Survey (VARHS) dataset. The meeting provides a...

Project workshop

Researchers and policy makers met in Hanoi on 7-8 November 2017 to discuss ongoing work on micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises based on the latest data available from the Viet Nam SME survey. With a significant share of the country’s labour...

Policy seminar

Presentation

This year the International Economic Association held its World Conference in Mexico City. The five day event, held from 19th to 23rd of June, featured a huge variety of sessions on many of the key economic issues of the day, as well as keynotes by...

Project meeting

Policy seminar

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.

Policy seminar

Seminar

Workshop

This workshop organized by UNU-WIDER brings together early-career researchers to present first drafts of their papers on the 2015 wave of the micro, small, and medium enterprises survey.

Seminar

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...

Presentation

Members of Finland’s Development Policy Committee visited UNU-WIDER on 15 March 2016.

Policy seminar

Policy workshop

On 19 May UNU-WIDER and the University of Copenhagen held a policy workshop on the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) in partnership with the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in Hanoi as part of the ongoing...

Panel discussion

UNU-WIDER Special Session: Thursday 19 June, 2014, 16:00-17:30 Lessons from UNU-WIDER research: Research and Communication on Foreign Aid; Development Under Climate Change; and Learning to Compete

Workshop

Workshop organized by the South African National Biodiversity Institute to discuss climate change impacts and adaptation options in South Africa.

Workshop

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana organized a two-day workshop on 'Modelling the Biophysical...

Seminar

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...

Presentation

The meeting was convened by the Department for Development Policy at Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. UNU-WIDER presented an overview of its research and training activities in the area of climate change, and received comments from Nordic...

Seminar

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...

Workshop

United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) host a project on Climate Change. This workshop organized in Nairobi is to discuss and compile a curriculum...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC) will hold a one week course on the 'Economics of Climate Change' at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. African and international lecturers...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC), held a three week online course on the 'The Science of Climate Change and Biophysical Modeling'. International lecturers introduced course participants to the science...

Workshop

UNU-WIDER's Development under Climate Change project held its second workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Presentation

James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER gave a guest lecture on Cllimate Change and Economic Development' at the Master's course on Growth and Development at the University of Tampere.

Presentation

The lecture was held by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Finn Tarp, and the focus was on sustainable development of developing countries in a time of climate change.

Seminar

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.

Seminar

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.

Seminar

Approaches for analysing the implications of climate change and appropriate policy responses from the perspective of low-income economies will be presented drawing on detailed country work conducted in Bangladesh, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique...

Workshop

The principal objective of the workshop was to evaluate the implications of climate change for developing countries including impacts, adaptation policies, mitigation policies, and their interactions with appropriate development strategies.

Presentation

The conference brought together researchers from developed and developing countries to exchange ideas and strengthen research cooperation.

Seminar

Professor Arndt presented recent approaches developed for analyzing the implications of climate change and appropriate policy responses.