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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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...

Wed, 30 November 2016 – Thu, 1 December 2016
Protea Hotel Fire & Ice!, 213 Thys Street, Pretoria Menlyn, South Africa
Past event
Conference
TIPS Annual Forum 2016 - Industrialisation and the Mining Economy
Tue, 14 June 2016 – Wed, 15 June 2016
School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, Bunting Road, Johannesburg, South Africa
Past event
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...

Fri, 22 January 2016
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Meiring Naude Rd, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Conference
TIPS Annual Forum 2015 - Regional Industrialization and Integration
Tue, 14 July 2015 – Wed, 15 July 2015
Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Past event
Project meeting
Good aid in hard places: Learning from what has worked in fragile contexts

Governance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and violence...

Thu, 12 December 2013 – Fri, 13 December 2013
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Project meeting
Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits

In recent years, field experiments using randomized trials have gained increasing popularity in the field of development economics. In particular, scholars have argued strongly for their use as the best means of identifying ‘what works’ in foreign...

Thu, 22 August 2013 – Fri, 23 August 2013
New York University, New York, United States
Past event
Conference
Macro-economic Management of Foreign Aid

Poster: AERC & UNU-WIDER Conference: ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid.pdf (1.9 megabytes) To meet development objectives, aid recipients and their donor partners need to effectively manage the macro-economic effects of aid. Aid can...

Fri, 2 December 2011 – Sat, 3 December 2011
Nairobi, Kenya
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Project meeting
Foreign aid and democracy

Mon, 15 August 2011 – Tue, 16 August 2011
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Project meeting
Decentralization and urban service delivery

Mon, 11 July 2011 – Tue, 12 July 2011
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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