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.

WIDER Seminar Series

The WIDER Seminar Series has returned! Beginning in March, join either online or in person for the 2024 season of this exciting event series to hear the latest research in development.

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How much tax can low-income countries raise?

In a world where lower-income countries face financing challenges exacerbated by climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and recent global health crises, the question of optimizing tax revenue is more pressing than ever. This panel...

Wed, 17 April 2024
Hybrid, Finland
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 2023 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
Tue, 13 June 2023Thu, 15 June 2023
School of Business, Economics and Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER shares research results at Aarhus University workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development

UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist presents at the workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development organized by the Aarhus University Department of Political Science. Her presentation is of UNU-WIDER's new Affirmative Action...

Thu, 25 May 2023Fri, 26 May 2023
Aarhus University Department of Political Science, Nordre Ringgade 1, Aarhus, Denmark
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Workshop
The measurement and elimination of global poverty and inequalities

UNU-WIDER is represented at the Workshop on promoting and protecting economic, social, and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic 6–8 February by senior research fellow Rachel M...

Tue, 7 February 2023
Tempus, Palais de Nations, Geneva. Online, Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Webinar
Harnessing big data and ICT to boost revenues
Tue, 22 November 2022
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the Global Development Conference 2022

UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development programme on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) is presented at the Global Development Conference, which takes place on 2-4 November in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Wed, 2 November 2022Fri, 4 November 2022
University of Clermont-Auvergne, 23 Avenue Léon Blum, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia to deliver keynote presentation at the 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB)

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the upcoming 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB). ICOB 2022, themed...

Tue, 27 September 2022Thu, 29 September 2022
IUS Campus, Hrasnička cesta 15, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Past event
Panel discussion
Fiscal States panel at APSA 2022 annual meeting

On 16 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Fiscal States in Developing Countries: Origins and Developmental Implications. The panel...

Fri, 16 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal , Montreal, Canada
Past event
Webinar
Tax effort revisited: How much tax can low-income countries expect to collect?
Tue, 13 September 2022
Online, Finland
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER shares latest DRM research at the IIPF 2022 Conference
Wed, 10 August 2022Fri, 12 August 2022
University of Linz, Linz, Austria
Past event
Presentation
Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC)

Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem presents recently published research on Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run in the upcoming 19th World Economic History Congress (WEHC), held in Paris on 25-29 July 2022. He joins a parallel session on...

Fri, 29 July 2022
Campus Condorcet, 8, cour des Humanités, Aubervilliers, France
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD Strategy...

Mon, 27 June 2022Tue, 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 22nd AISSEC Conference

Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the 22nd Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati (AISSEC)...

Fri, 17 June 2022
G. D’Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 31, Pescara, Italy
Past event
Project workshop
Addressing group-based inequalities work in progress workshop

The UNU-WIDER project Addressing group-based inequalities holds a virtual workshop to discuss research on 'Experiences of Reform', the component of the project which offers a comparative assessment of worldwide efforts to reduce group-based...

Wed, 15 December 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

Tue, 14 December 2021Wed, 15 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 16th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

Wed, 30 June 2021Fri, 2 July 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at panel on ‘Human insecurity as a threat to human development’ at the UNDP Virtual Human Development Symposium

The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Office of the Human Development Report will host a virtual symposium over four days from 8-11 June on ‘A New Generation of Human Security’. Through a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions...

Thu, 10 June 2021
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Presentation
Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea presented at Umea University

Dr Klarizze Puzon will present preliminary findings from a forthcoming WIDER working paper on 'Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea' at a seminar organized by the Umea University School of Business and...

Wed, 2 June 2021
Umea University School of Business and Economics, Sweden
Past event
Seminar
Who is being left behind? Closing the horizontal inequality gap

On Monday 17 May Rachel Gisselquist will join the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Seminar Series as discussant in their event on closing the horizontal inequality gap. Find more UNU-WIDER research on horizontal ineqality here...

Mon, 17 May 2021
Online, United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea presented at PCED

Dr. Klarizze Puzon will present preliminary findings from a forthcoming working paper on 'Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea' to an audience at the Philippines Center for Economic Development and the...

Thu, 15 April 2021
University of the Philippines Department of Economics, Philippines
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Presentation
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at the International Studies Association Annual Conference

Rachel M. Gisselquist will present in two sessions at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference held online. The first session will share new research with Andrea Vaccaro from the State and statebuilding in the Global South –...

Thu, 8 April 2021
Online, United States
Past event
Presentation
Rachel Gisselquist will speak at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward'

Rachel Gisselquist has been invited to speak on a panel at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward', an online event hosted by the Overseas Development Institute. Register for the event through ODI here. Details Chair Gonzalo Hernández Licona...

Thu, 21 January 2021
Past event
Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - 1st network meeting
Thu, 12 November 2020
Online, Denmark
Past event
Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy

The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...

Thu, 6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Panel discussion
Launch of the UNDP Human Development Report 2019
Fri, 13 December 2019
Think Corner / Tiedekulma, Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities

Ravi Pendakur will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 8 November 2019. Abstract - The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities In Canada, modern agreements allow Indigenous groups to govern their internal...

Fri, 8 November 2019
Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room, Katajanokanlaituri 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
Seminar
Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequality

UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will look at...

Tue, 2 April 2019Wed, 3 April 2019
International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Lecture
John Page on industrial policy
Tue, 4 December 2018
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya
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