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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Panel discussion
A UNU-WIDER special panel on inequality — measurement, implications, and influencing change
Fri, 28 February 2020
House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
UNU-WIDER and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs workshop on inequality

On 6 May 2019, UNU-WIDER will partner with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) in organizing a workshop on inequality. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss some of the lessons learned in...

Mon, 6 May 2019
United Nations Headquarters, 46th St & 1st Ave, New York, United States
Past event
Panel discussion
Open dialogue on inequality in the 21st century
Fri, 29 March 2019
Ex-Press Bar, Third Floor of the General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters, 1st Avenue at 46th Street, New York, United States
Past event
Presentation
Measuring Inequality in the 21st Century

The Human Development Report Office, LIS, the Stone Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), UNU-WIDER and the World Inequality Lab will host a symposium on Measuring Inequality in the 21st Century. The 2-day event will be held 28-29 March...

Thu, 28 March 2019 – Fri, 29 March 2019
United Nations Headquarters , New York, United States
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Presentation
Understanding global and local inequalities: An EU - AFD initiative

The recently established Research Facility on Inequalities is funded by the European Commission under its Development Cooperation Instrument. The Research Facility on Inequalities is implemented by Agence Française de Développement (AFD). This new...

Mon, 15 January 2018
Le Mistral, Nelson Mandela Auditorium, 3 Place Louis-Armand, 75012 Paris, France
Past event
Presentation
Finn Tarp at the IPP International Conference 2017

The IPP International Conference 2017, ‘Development and Poverty: China and the World’, will feature speakers and participants from the West, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and mainland China to discuss challenges faced by countries in their...

Sat, 19 August 2017 – Sun, 20 August 2017
Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou, China
Past event
Seminar
Inequality - Trends worldwide and in India
Fri, 22 January 2016
Juniper Hall at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi, India
Past event
Presentation
Inclusion and Transformation: Examples of WIDER Research
Mon, 23 November 2015
USAID, Washington, DC, United States
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...

Wed, 6 November 2013
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Conference
Inclusive Growth in Africa: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences

Rapid and sustained poverty reduction requires ‘inclusive growth’ that allows people to contribute to and benefit from the development process. Africa’s economic performance has improved considerably since the 1980s and early 1990s. Nevertheless...

Fri, 20 September 2013 – Sat, 21 September 2013
Scandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP). Technical Workshop.

A GAPP Technical Workshop will be held at TIPS in Pretoria, South Africa, from 2 to 5 April 2013 and it will bring together a group of researchers working on understanding issues of growth, inequality, and poverty in a selected number of African...

Tue, 2 April 2013 – Fri, 5 April 2013
TIPS, 227 Lange St, Pretoria, South Africa
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Project meeting
Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP). Second authors' meeting.

The second project meeting of the research programme called Reconciling Africa’s Growth, Poverty and Inequality Trends': Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP). The GAPP brings together researchers from leading African and international universities and...

Mon, 28 January 2013 – Wed, 30 January 2013
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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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...

Fri, 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.

Thu, 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...

Thu, 10 May 2012
Sida, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Seminar
Two steps forward, one step back? Progress, setbacks, and possibilities for democratization in Africa

UN Edutainment is a monthly seminar for everyone interested in international relations and the United Nations. Arranged by Finnish Model United Nations (FinMUN) together with the students' UN-association in Helsinki (HYKY).

Wed, 18 April 2012
Eurooppasali, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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