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
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
Past event
Project workshop
Clientelistic politics and economic development
Fri, 1 March 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Inequality in China – Authors’ workshop

On 15 May 2018, authors from the ‘Inequality in the Giants’ project’s China component meet in Beijing to discuss draft research papers.

Tue, 15 May 2018
Beijing Normal University (BNU), Meeting room 3, Jing Shi Xue Tang, Beijing, China
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the International Economics Association World Congress 2017

This year the International Economic Association held its World Conference in Mexico City. The five day event, held from 19th to 23rd of June, featured a huge variety of sessions on many of the key economic issues of the day, as well as keynotes by...

Mon, 19 June 2017 – Fri, 23 June 2017
Camino Real Hotel, Mariano Escobedo 700, Mexico City, Mexico
Past event
Policy seminar
Engagement on strategies to overcome inequality in South Africa

While South Africa in many ways outperforms other African nations, rising inequality continues to act as a barrier to achieving economic transformation and equitable growth. This two-day event in Pretoria sets out to disseminate research on...

Thu, 1 June 2017 – Fri, 2 June 2017
Kievits Kroon Country Estate, Pretoria, South Africa
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
Workshop
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
Past event
Workshop
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
Past event
Seminar
Development Strategy and Policy Analysis on The Economics (and Politics) Behind South Africa’s Carbon Tax

South Africa announced in February 2012 that it will introduce a carbon tax to reduce the country’s high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist in the global effort to curb climate change. This makes South Africa one of the first countries...

Tue, 3 April 2012
UN DESA, New York, United States
Past event
Presentation
Meeting of environment specialists from the Nordic Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development Agencies

The meeting was convened by the Department for Development Policy at Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. UNU-WIDER presented an overview of its research and training activities in the area of climate change, and received comments from Nordic...

Tue, 31 January 2012
Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Biofuels, Poverty and Gender in Mozambique and Tanzania

For some, biofuels is a development opportunity that could generate economic growth and create jobs in the Africa's often-underperforming rural economies. For others, biofuels is yet another example of 'foreign land-grabbing' in Africa that could...

Wed, 18 January 2012
Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Past event
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