The world at crossroads – securing the future generations

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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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Virtual launch of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey (2019) report

A virtual launch of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey (2019) report will take place on the 1st of September 2020. The online launch event will bring together policy-makers, representatives from international organizations and...

Tue, 1 September 2020
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UNU-WIDER at Myanmar statistics forum
Fri, 29 November 2019
Grand Amara Hotel (Pinya Hall), Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Presentation
Launching Ceremony of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Qualitative Study Report (2018)

On 26 March the results and outcomes of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Qualitative Study Report (2018), SAM engagement, and four in-depth Studies were presented at a launching ceremony in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The meeting brought...

Tue, 26 March 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyitaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Finn Tarp presents at the inauguration of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University
Thu, 13 December 2018 – Sat, 15 December 2018
Peking University, Beijing, China
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Finn Tarp delivers keynote at the Annual Congress of the Economic Society of Tanzania

Professor Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER will give a keynote presentation at the Annual Congress of the Economic Society of Tanzania, which will be held in Dar es Salaam on 7-8 December 2018.

Fri, 7 December 2018 – Sat, 8 December 2018
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Finn Tarp presents at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

On 27 September 2018 UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp will give a presentation on development and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation.

Thu, 27 September 2018
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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Ceremony to deliver the findings of the 2017 Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey

On 28 August the results and outcomes of the 2017 ‘Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey’ were presented at a ceremony in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. High-level representatives from several ministries in Myanmar as well as other stakeholders...

Tue, 28 August 2018
Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Launch of the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017

On 29 May 2018 the first ‘Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey’ is published. The launch event will bring together policy-makers, representatives from international organizations and researchers to discuss the findings of the report.

Tue, 29 May 2018
Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Office #32, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusion and Transformation: Examples of WIDER Research
Mon, 23 November 2015
USAID, Washington, DC, United States
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Conference
L2C – Learning to Compete: Industrial Development and Policy in Africa

The first of the two 2013 UNU-WIDER Development Conferences will be held on 24‑25 June in Helsinki, Finland. The conference titled ‘L2C – Learning to Compete: Industrial Development and Policy in Africa’ builds on the research from the collaborative...

Mon, 24 June 2013 – Tue, 25 June 2013
Scandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11)

Contact person Christel Brink Hansen, University of Copenhagen Christel.Brink.Hansen@econ.ku.dk NCDE 2011 Conference Programme (52.68 kilobytes) The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen and the United Nations...

Mon, 20 June 2011 – Tue, 21 June 2011
University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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