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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Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion

Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at the BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion: Resilience, Depolarization and Inclusion organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Her participation in the event will include dissemination of key findings from UNU...

21 September 2023 – 22 September 2023
Landgut Stober, Behnitzer Dorfstraße 27-31, Nauen, Germany
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Workshop
The measurement and elimination of global poverty and inequalities

UNU-WIDER is represented at the Workshop on promoting and protecting economic, social, and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic 6–8 February by senior research fellow Rachel M...

7 February 2023
Tempus, Palais de Nations, Geneva. Online, Geneva, Switzerland
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Seminar
Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation with Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal
21 September 2021
Online, Finland
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Project workshop
Workshop for the @Equal project
21 September 2021
Online, United States
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Presentation
Rachel Gisselquist will speak at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward'

Rachel Gisselquist has been invited to speak on a panel at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward', an online event hosted by the Overseas Development Institute. Register for the event through ODI here. Details Chair Gonzalo Hernández Licona...

21 January 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Lecture
Global oil markets: Current developments and future prospects
26 April 2016
Wits Business School, 2 St David's Place, Johannesburg, South Africa
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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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Policy seminar
Firm level analysis
21 January 2016
Linton House, Pretoria, South Africa
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Policy seminar
Policy symposium: South Africa in Africa
6 October 2015
Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, South Africa
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Seminar
Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa
11 August 2015
Sheraton Hotel , 643 Cnr Stanza Bopape/Wessels St Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
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Conference
TIPS Annual Forum 2015 - Regional Industrialization and Integration
14 July 2015 – 15 July 2015
Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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