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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Training in Advanced Poverty Analysis

Two researchers of the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme, Eva-Maria Egger, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, and Vincenzo Salvucci, Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, deliver a training on advanced poverty analysis on 26-30 April. To be held...

Mon, 26 April 2021 – Fri, 30 April 2021
Ministry of Economy and Finance, Avenida Julius Nyerere, Maputo, Mozambique
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Training in poverty analysis using STATA

On 22-26 March 2021, UNU-WIDER, the University of Eduardo Mondlane, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique and the University of Copenhagen organizes a training in poverty analysis using STATA, a statistical analysis software used to...

Mon, 22 March 2021 – Sat, 26 June 2021
University of Eduardo Mondlane, Faculty of Economy, Avenida Julius Nyerere, Maputo, Mozambique
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Course on advanced poverty analysis

As part of the programme Inclusive Growth in Mozambique, researchers Vincenzo Salvucci and José Cardoso, will deliver a 5-day training course on advanced poverty analysis for officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique along with...

Mon, 4 March 2019 – Fri, 8 March 2019
University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
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Training on CGE modelling

The training on 2-6 July 2018 is the second part of the series of workshops, that offers an introduction to economy-wide modelling for policy analysis. The workshop is held in Maputo and it is part of the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique Programme. The...

Mon, 2 July 2018 – Fri, 6 July 2018
Maputo, Mozambique
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Course on poverty line estimation and poverty calculations

The Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme delivers a course on poverty line estimation and poverty calculation from June to August 2018 in Maputo. This course aims to equip the participants with tools to make poverty line estimation and poverty...

Fri, 1 June 2018 – Thu, 30 August 2018
Maputo, Finland
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Research proposal workshop

UNU-WIDER research fellows, Ricardo Santos and Vincenzo Salvucci will lead a workshop on 14 March 2018 in Maputo. The workshop provides participants with tools and methodologies to support them in writing research proposals. The workshop is part of...

Wed, 14 March 2018
Maputo, Mozambique
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Workshop to disseminate the results of the Fourth National Assessment of Poverty and Well-being in Mozambique

On 24 November 2016 the Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies (DEEF) of the Ministry of Economics and Finance of Mozambique (MEF) brought together policy makers, policy advisers, development partners, and government representatives to discuss...

Thu, 24 November 2016
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Quantitative methods for applied economic analysis
Tue, 27 September 2016 – Fri, 30 September 2016
Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
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Analysing poverty

The Analysing Poverty workshop was held in Maputo, 6-10 July 2015. The workshop is part of the UNU-WIDER Research Programme theme of Transfromation, in co-operation with Ministry of Economics and Finance of Mozambique, the University Eduardo Mondlane...

Mon, 6 July 2015 – Fri, 10 July 2015
University Eduardo Mondlane, Avenida do Zimbábwe, Maputo, Mozambique
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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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