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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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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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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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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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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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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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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