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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Training on statistical software Stata in Myanmar

As part of the Towards inclusive development in Myanmar programme, an introductory course to Stata and to data extraction was organised for selected staff at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Six training sessions...

Mon, 26 October 2020 – Mon, 16 November 2020
Online, Myanmar (Burma)
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Training on Business Practice Intervention Survey in Myanmar
Mon, 24 February 2020 – Sat, 29 February 2020
Central Statistical Organization, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) development: Excel workshop

As part of the research collaboration with the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar, UNU-WIDER and the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) of the University of Copenhagen, a workshop was...

Mon, 27 January 2020 – Thu, 30 January 2020
CSO, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusive development in Myanmar: Training on report writing using the MSME dataset

Using the Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey (MSME) Dataset, around 30 participants from the Central Statistical Organization of Myanmar will receive training on report writing.

Mon, 26 November 2018 – Fri, 30 November 2018
Central Statistical Organization, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusive development in Myanmar: KoBo Toolbox training
Mon, 12 November 2018 – Wed, 14 November 2018
Central Statistical Organization , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Team workshop on how to use the provisional 2015 Myanmar SAM for economy-wide descriptive analysis and modelling analysis

In August 2018, UNU-WIDER and the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar signed an agreement to develop a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and to conduct economy-wide analysis using the SAM for the...

Fri, 9 November 2018 – Wed, 14 November 2018
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusive development in Myanmar: Training course on sampling methodology and basic statistics
Mon, 5 November 2018 – Fri, 9 November 2018
Central Statistical Organization, Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusive development in Myanmar: Games Experiment Training
Mon, 2 July 2018 – Wed, 4 July 2018
Naypyidaw and Taungoo, Myanmar (Burma)
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Inclusive development in Myanmar: Analytical Methods Training for CSO staff
Mon, 12 February 2018 – Fri, 23 February 2018
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Climate change impacts and adaptation options in South Africa

Workshop organized by the South African National Biodiversity Institute to discuss climate change impacts and adaptation options in South Africa.

Tue, 26 March 2013 – Wed, 27 March 2013
Cape Town, South Africa
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Climate Change Modelling of Biophysical Impacts

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana organized a two-day workshop on 'Modelling the Biophysical...

Mon, 11 June 2012
ISSER, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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AERC and UNU-WIDER Curriculum on Development in the area of Climate Change

United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) host a project on Climate Change. This workshop organized in Nairobi is to discuss and compile a curriculum...

Thu, 1 December 2011 – Fri, 2 December 2011
Nairobi, Kenya
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Development under Climate Change

UNU-WIDER's Development under Climate Change project held its second workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Mon, 11 April 2011 – Fri, 15 April 2011
University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
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Systematic analysis of climate resilient development (SACReD)

The principal objective of the workshop was to evaluate the implications of climate change for developing countries including impacts, adaptation policies, mitigation policies, and their interactions with appropriate development strategies.

Thu, 7 October 2010 – Fri, 8 October 2010
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2033 K Street NW, Washington, United States
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