UNU WIDER : Events

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.

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.

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.

17 past and upcoming events

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Project workshop

Towards gender equity in development

3 February 2017 – 4 February 2017

University of Namur, Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business Administration, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur, Belgium

Past event

Conference

Growth and development policy – new data, new approaches, and new evidence

Economies in the southern Africa region face thorny challenges when it comes to the transformation of their economies, job creation, and the need to share the benefits of growth. For the past three years, more than 100 researchers have engaged in a...

30 November 2016 – 1 December 2016

Protea Hotel Fire & Ice!, 213 Thys Street, Pretoria Menlyn, South Africa

Past event

Project workshop

Contemporary issues in gender and development

25 October 2016 – 26 October 2016

UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

Project workshop

Gender and development

This project workshop, organized by UNU-WIDER and University of Namur, brings together researchers to discuss joint work on gender and development. The workshop will be held in Helsinki on 4 – 5 October 2016.

4 October 2016 – 5 October 2016

UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

Conference

TIPS Annual Forum 2016 - Industrialisation and the Mining Economy

14 June 2016 – 15 June 2016

School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, Bunting Road, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Lecture

A new analytical frontier: firm-level analysis using SARS administrative record data

The lecture introduced and described South African Revenue Service (SARS) tax administrative record data based on company and individual records. An important element of economic growth and transformation relates to the characteristics, determinants...

6 June 2016

Wits Business School, 2 St David’s Place, Johannesburg, South Africa

Past event

Workshop

Technical workshop on measurement of productivity

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hosted a small technical workshop on the measurement of productivity on 6 June in Pretoria, South Africa.

6 June 2016

South African Reserve Bank, 370 Helen Joseph Street , Pretoria, South Africa

Past event

Lecture

Global oil markets: Current developments and future prospects

26 April 2016

Wits Business School, 2 St David's Place, Johannesburg, South Africa

Past event

Policy workshop

Energy issues and implications for macrostability

This policy workshop on 'Energy issues and implications for macrostability' is organized by UNU-WIDER together with the National Treasury of South Africa, the South African Reserve Bank, and the National Planning Commission on 22 April 2016 in...

22 April 2016

South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria, South Africa

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Project meeting

Biofuel growth opportunities in Southern Africa

UNU-WIDER and The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) co-organized a project coordination meeting on the Biofuel growth opportunities in Southern Africa project on 22 January 2016 in Pretoria. The aim was for the researchers...

22 January 2016

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Meiring Naude Rd, Pretoria, South Africa

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