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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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
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
Past event
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
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...

22 January 2016
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Meiring Naude Rd, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
Firm level analysis
21 January 2016
Linton House, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
Policy symposium: South Africa in Africa
6 October 2015
Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa
11 August 2015
Sheraton Hotel , 643 Cnr Stanza Bopape/Wessels St Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Conference
TIPS Annual Forum 2015 - Regional Industrialization and Integration
14 July 2015 – 15 July 2015
Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Past event
Workshop
Regional Research Workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to initiate a four year programme of research on opportunities to spur growth and development in the Southern Africa region. The workshop is by invitation only.

28 March 2014
Johannesburg, South Africa
Past event
Panel discussion
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

This event will involve an in-depth analysis of how, when, and why foreign aid has either facilitated or undermined democratization in Africa. The panel discussion will be centred around the launch of the book entitled Democratic Trajectories in...

6 November 2013
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Seminar
Donors, democracy and development - Unraveling the impact of aid in Africa

The aims of the seminar were twofold. First, the preliminary findings from an 18-month project at UNU-WIDER, which has looked at whether and how foreign aid has impacted Africa’s democratic trajectory, were presented. This research already has been...

8 June 2012
Accra, Ghana
Past event
Seminar
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

Impact of foreign aid on the democratic trajectories of developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

17 May 2012
Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom
Past event
Results meeting
ReCom: Democracy & Fragility

ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme was launched in early 2011 by the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). Key partners of this initiative include the United...

10 May 2012
Sida, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
Past event
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