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On 6 December Michael Danquah joins the OECD’s virtual workshop on: Transitions out of informality and their implications for workers. The workshop brings together the ongoing work of the OECD on the topic and invites experts in the field to learn...

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On Friday, 2 December 2022, Kunal Sen presents to an audience of researchers at the University of Sussex including visitors from the Institute for Development Studies. The presentation draws from the forthcoming book The job ladder: Transforming...

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As part of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) biannual research workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, UNU-WIDER coordinates a special session on the forthcoming book The job ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing...

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The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action (MGCAS) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 21-27 November 2022. During the week, on 25 November, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) with Internation Labour...

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During 27-30 June UNU-WIDER researchers, Michael Danquah and Simone Schotte join the expert group meeting hosted virtually by Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) on Creating full and...

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On 1 March 2022, Eva-Maria Egger, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow and Resident Advisor of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme based at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, shared recent research produced under the IGM programme...

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On 24 January 2022, Eva-Maria Egger and Sam Jones, UNU-WIDER Research Fellows and researchers of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme (IGM), present recent IGM research at the Canadian High Commission in Mozambique. The hybrid event is...

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On 15 December 2021 UNU-WIDER Research Associate Simone Schotte presents at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research. The topic of her presentation is The labor market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: evidence from Ghana...

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On 18 November Kunal Sen joins the 4th webinar of the evidence-based policy and action roundtable series by NIRDPR. The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj hosts the event online with Kunal Sen presenting Growth 2.0: the good...

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On Thursday 28 October at 15:00 (UCT+5:30) UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen joins the CESS-DGS Special Lecture Series on Development Themes. The lecture will draw from UNU-WIDER research on COVID-19, and in particular, from the project Transforming...

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The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action (MGCAS) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 11-15 October 2021. During the week, on 15 October, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) with Internation Labour...

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On 30 June 2021, Sam Jones, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow and IGM Resident Advisor, join a virtual two-hour visit of the Finnish Members of the Parliament to Mozambique. Speaking in the opening session of the online visit, Jones will provide the 45 tour...

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On 30 June 2021, Ricardo Santos, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, participates in the World Congress 2021 of the International Economic Association (IEA) by presenting an IGM paper on the vulnerability of Mozambique to natural shocks. The paper is among...

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During the 2021 International Conference in Development Economics (ICDE) Simone Schotte joins parallel session C4 on COVID-19 to present a recent WIDER Working Paper co-authored with Michael Danquah, Robert Osei and Kunal Sen, ‘The labour market...

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The Research Training Group ‘Globalization and Development’ (GlaD) organises an international conference to be held from 5-6 July, 2021. Simone Schotte joins parallel B.2 Labour Markets to present a recent WIDER Working Paper co-authored with Michael...

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The 96th Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference takes place online across 27 June to 1 July. This year’s programme includes a session chaired by Tim Gindling, Climbing the job ladder? Informal and formal work in a dynamic...

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On 24 June 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Mozambique (MITSS) launches the final report of the Survey on the School-to-Work Transition of Technical and Vocational Training Graduates in Mozambique. The report, produced under the...

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On 10 June 2021, Vincenzo Salvucci, Researcher at the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme, will share the findings of a recent WIDER Working Paper ‘The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique’ at a one-day workshop organized by...

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On 16-17 June 2021, Enilde Francisco Sarmento, National Director of Economic and Development Policies at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and Fernando Lichucha, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), both...

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Vincenzo Salvucci, Researcher at the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme, University of Copenhagen, presents a recent WIDER Working Paper measuring the microeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique, ‘The impact of COVID-19 on consumption...

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On 19 April 2021, Ricardo Santos, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, presents an IGM paper in progress discussing the horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique in an online seminar coordinated by the Institute for International Economic Policy...

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On 10 June, researchers of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme presented recent baseline survey findings to the technical and vocational education donor group in Mozambique.

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On Tuesday 14 May Piotr Lewandowski, labour economist, co-founder and president of the board at Institute for Structural Research (IBS), visited UNU-WIDER to present and discuss with resident researchers his latest research. Abstract - Technology...

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On 25 October UNU-WIDER research fellow from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme Paola Ballon presents in an event organized by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in Maputo. The event is focused on multi...

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Vincenzo Salvucci presents at a Conference on International Development on 3 October in Rome. The presentation is based on a draft working paper on school dropout in Mozambique by Félix Mambo, Ricardo Santos and Vincenzo Salvucci from the Inclusive...

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UNU-WIDER research fellows Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos present data on labour markets in Mozambique in a special event at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in Helsinki on 21 September. Researchers, officials from the foreign ministry and...

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