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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Project workshop
Clientelist politics and economic development
Thu, 15 October 2020 – Fri, 16 October 2020
Virtual, Helsinki , Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Clientelist politics and development panel at APSA 2020 annual meeting

On 10 September UNU-WIDER will be participating in a panel at the 2020 APSA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition, on the topic of Clientelist Politics and Development. The panel, chaired by UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist...

Thu, 10 September 2020
Past event
Lecture
MOOC: Industrial policy for the 21st century – the challenge for Africa
Mon, 9 September 2019 – Mon, 14 October 2019
Past event
Project workshop
Clientelistic politics and economic development
Fri, 1 March 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
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
Past event
Presentation
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
Past event
Lecture
John Page on the drivers of industrial location

On 30 October, John Page gives a presentation on the drivers of industrial location at the London School of Economics. This event is part of a series of lectures delivered by Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior...

Tue, 30 October 2018
London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London, United Kingdom
Past event
Lecture
John Page on growth, structural change and industry
Mon, 29 October 2018
Department for International Development, 22 Whitehall, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
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
Past event
Policy seminar
Industrialization in Africa
Mon, 13 March 2017 – Tue, 14 March 2017
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Past event
Policy seminar
Policy seminar - ‘Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry’

UNU-WIDER and Trinity College Dublin co-organize a policy seminar on the new book ‘Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry’, on Africa Day, 25 May 2016, at Trinity College, Dublin. The launch brings together development experts, academics...

Wed, 25 May 2016
TriSS seminar room, 6th floor, Arts building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Past event
Seminar
Made in Africa: Learning to compete in industry - Book launch and panel discussion
Tue, 12 April 2016
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Presentation
Inclusion and Transformation: Examples of WIDER Research
Mon, 23 November 2015
USAID, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Policy seminar
Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
Wed, 4 March 2015
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Past event
Seminar
Policy responses to food price volatility

Between 2007 and 2008, world governments made decisions that, in conjunction with extreme weather events, turned an already alarming food supply and demand situation into a global food price crisis. This begs the question: How do governments make...

Mon, 2 February 2015
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Panel discussion
Global Development Network 15th Annual Development Conference: Structural Transformation in Africa and Beyond

UNU-WIDER Special Session: Thursday 19 June, 2014, 16:00-17:30 Lessons from UNU-WIDER research: Research and Communication on Foreign Aid; Development Under Climate Change; and Learning to Compete

Thu, 19 June 2014
International Conference Centre, Castle Rd, Accra, Ghana
Past event
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