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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Webinar
The potential of domestic savings in the Global South
7 February 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Conference
Debt and innovative finance in developing countries
27 October 2022 – 28 October 2022
Online and at Bank of Finland , Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Lecture
Kunal Sen on institutions and development

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen gives a lecture to the staff of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). The topic of the lecture is Institutions and development. In his presentation Kunal Sen will discuss the role of...

18 March 2022
KIPPRA, Bishops Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Past event
Project workshop
Domestic savings workshop for authors
16 March 2022 – 17 March 2022
Online, Nairobi, Kenya
Past event
Lecture
Stata training for Domestic savings country authors

Capacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams...

27 October 2021 – 29 October 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Miguel Nino-Zarazua and Rachel Gisselquist presenting to Finland's Development Policy Committee

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER are presenting to the Development Policy Committee of Finland on 2 September 2021 at 14:00 (UTC+3). The subject of...

2 September 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Domestic savings mini workshop for country case authors

This project workshop brought together the authors responsible for the country case studies of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The country studies will be included in a book volume on...

17 March 2021
Past event
Presentation
Ministry for Foreign Affairs hosts farewell lecture by Finn Tarp
17 December 2018
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Arppeanum Auditorio Snellmanninkatu 3-5, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Rachel Gisselquist delivers keynote address at Academy of Finland Seminar

On 26 November 2018 Rachel Gisselquist presents a keynote address on development research for impact, at an event hosted by the Academy of Finland. The event, Research to Make Impact!, will launch the Academy Programme for development research, a...

26 November 2018
Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Presentation to the Finnish Development Policy Committee

Members of Finland’s Development Policy Committee visited UNU-WIDER on 15 March 2016.

15 March 2016
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Lessons from ReCom in a post-2015 perspective

ReCom (Research and Communication on Foreign Aid) occupied a key role in UNU-WIDER’s 2010-13 work programme addressing the triple crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change. Some 240 ReCom studies were prepared during a period of 3-years by around 300...

8 October 2014
SIDA, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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

19 June 2014
International Conference Centre, Castle Rd, Accra, Ghana
Past event
Presentation
Does development aid work?

Presentation to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament on Aid Effectiveness. See slides here.

5 May 2014
Parliament house, Mannerheimintie 30, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Group visit by students from University of Tampere

Group visit by students of University of Tampere, Finland, for briefing on UNU-WIDER's mandate and research, particularly ongoing research work within the project on Foreign Aid: Research and Communications.

1 April 2014
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Results meeting
Aid for Gender Equality

In recent decades, aid donors have recognised that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to improving living standards, well-being, and economic growth. This insight has led to a fourfold increase in the flows of foreign aid toward...

16 December 2013
Eigtveds Pakhus, Asiatisk Plads 2 G, Copenhagen, Denmark
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...

12 December 2013 – 13 December 2013
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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