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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Webinar
Corruption and theft in the global oil and gas sector
18 April 2023
Online, Finland
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Presentation
Research on mandatory disclosure rules presented at the University of Münster

Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the University of Münster's Economic Research Seminar on 14 December 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and...

14 December 2022
University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Past event
Workshop
Workshop on illicit financial flows

UNU-WIDER together with the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH-DERG) organizes an in-person workshop on illicit financial flows (IFFs) at the University of Copenhagen on 25-26 October 2022.

25 October 2022 – 26 October 2022
University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the EU Tax Observatory Lunch Seminar

Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the EU Tax Observatory lunch seminar on 5 October 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and yet so far: The...

5 October 2022
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
Past event
Presentation
Elisa Casi-Eberhard on mandatory disclosure regimes

World Bank's hybrid conference on global tax equity is organized on 22-23 September 2022. Elisa Casi-Eberhard, a Norwegian School of Economics Assistant Professor, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper at the conference. The topic of Casi...

22 September 2022 – 23 September 2022
Hybrid, United States
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Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Ninth Annual Mannheim Taxation Conference

The ninth edition of the Annual MannheimTaxation Conference takes place in person in Mannheim, Germany on 8–9 September 2022. Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper in the...

8 September 2022 – 9 September 2022
Mannheim, Germany
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER shares latest DRM research at the IIPF 2022 Conference
10 August 2022 – 12 August 2022
University of Linz, Linz, Austria
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Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Early Researchers Consortium in Accounting

The Accounting Research Groups at the UPF Barcelona School of Management (Spain), Free University of Bolzano (Italy) and University of Padua (Italy) organise the fifth edition of the Accounting Summer Camp in Barcelona on July 13-15 2022. Researcher...

13 July 2022 – 14 July 2022
UPF-BSM, Barcelona, Spain
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Project workshop
Author workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...

22 June 2022 – 30 June 2022
Online, Denmark
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Project workshop
Workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss the first drafts of the papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the...

1 September 2021 – 2 September 2021
Online, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - 2nd network meeting

As part of the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, we have established an informal network of leading international researchers working on the topic of international tax and illicit financial flows. The second meeting of the...

3 March 2021
Online, Denmark
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Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - 1st network meeting
12 November 2020
Online, Denmark
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...

6 November 2013
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
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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...

8 June 2012
Accra, Ghana
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Seminar
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

Impact of foreign aid on the democratic trajectories of developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

17 May 2012
Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom
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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...

10 May 2012
Sida, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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