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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13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal Sen

The recording of this lecture is available here. Professor Kunal Sen delivers the 13th B.G. Kumar Lecture on 'Is India the Land of Opportunity?' at the Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The lecture begins at 15:30...

21 November 2022
CDS, Prasanth Nagar, Medical College P.O., Ulloor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy

Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...

9 May 2022
Online, Finland
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Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar University

Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...

22 April 2022
Online, India
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Panel discussion
Social mobility in the Global South – beyond poverty and inequality reduction

A new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and...

6 April 2022
University of Greenwich Stockwell Street, 10 Stockwell St. - Room LT 0004, East Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
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Lecture
Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and Policy

Kunal Sen gives a keynote address at the Annual Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Conference on Development (ABCD) 2021. The keynote address, on the topic of 'Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and Policy'...

3 December 2021
Lakeshore Hotel, House no. 46 Gulshan 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER Research Fellows present at the American Political Science Association's Annual Conference

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist takes part in the 117th American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibition from 28 September to 3 October 2021. Two sessions will feature presentations of WIDER Working Papers she has co...

28 September 20213 October 2021
Online, Seattle, United States
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Presentation
Maria Lo Bue and Khoa Vu to present in YoDEV Webinar Series

Maria Lo Bue and Khoa Vu will present their work from the Social mobility in the Global South project on intergenerational mobility in Viet Nam. This presentation is a part of the Young Development Economists Webinar Series and will take place at 15...

14 January 2021
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 2nd UN Roundtable on Extractives

On 9 December, 2020, Tony Addison and Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled "Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in...

9 December 2020
Online, Chile
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 1st UN Roundtable on Extractives

On 30 October, 2020, Tony Addison and Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled "Extractive Industries as an Engine for Sustainable Development: The Case of...

30 October 2020
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Project workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
5 September 20196 September 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B , Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Khoa Vu on the causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
29 May 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Public Forum on extractive industry and development

The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum on 26 March 2019 on the topic of Extractive Industry and Development. The Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison will give a presentation based on a major...

26 March 2019
Complexo Pedagógico, Room 1501, Main Campus, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
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Presentation
Tony Addison presents the extractives book at the OECD
13 December 2018
OECD, Paris, France
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
26 November 2018
Southern Sun Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique
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Presentation
Extractives in development – Tony Addison addresses UN DESA

Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is giving a presentation to the staff of UN DESA, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in New York on 19 November. The presentation shares findings from the UNU...

19 November 2018
UN DESA, New York, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe present at the World Bank
16 November 2018
World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
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