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

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Policy seminar
Rising income inequality: trends - and measures to prevent and reverse it

ILO, UNCTAD, and UNU-WIDER invite interested professionals to the policy seminar on ‘Rising income inequality: trends, and measures to prevent and reverse it’. The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income...

23 October 2014
Room IX, International Labour Organization, Route des Morillons 4, Geneva, Switzerland
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Presentation and book launch within the framework of ECLAC's regional annual seminar on fiscal policy

Presentation and book launch within the framework of ECLAC’s regional annual seminar on fiscal policy. Giovanni Andrea Cornia will present research findings and new book Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy Changes and Lessons (Oxford...

20 January 2014
ECLAC, Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Santiago, Chile
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Project meeting
The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America

7 December 2010 – 8 December 2010
UN Headquarters, Temporary North Lawn Building (TNLB), New York, United States
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