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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Structural change in developing countries – ETD project workshop part 3

On 26 January 2023, commissioned research from the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project is presented at the third and final workshop. The research aims to improve our understanding of structural transformation —how it varies, why it varies...

Thu, 26 January 2023
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Workshop
Structural change in developing countries – ETD project workshop part 2

On 24 January 2023, commissioned research from the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project is presented at the second of three workshops. The research aims to improve our understanding of structural transformation —how it varies, why it varies...

Tue, 24 January 2023
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Structural change in developing countries – ETD project workshop

On 21 November 2022, commissioned research from the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project is presented at the first of three workshops. The research aims to improve our understanding of structural transformation —how it varies, why it varies...

Mon, 21 November 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Lecture
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...

Mon, 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...

Mon, 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...

Fri, 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...

Wed, 6 April 2022
University of Greenwich Stockwell Street, 10 Stockwell St. - Room LT 0004, East Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Past event
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'...

Fri, 3 December 2021
Lakeshore Hotel, House no. 46 Gulshan 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Lecture
IEA seminar — Digital Technologies: Limits and Opportunities for Economic Development

A discussion featuring Dani Rodrik, Daren Acemoglu, Mahdi Ghodsi, Kunal Sen, Albert Park, and Haroon Bhorat. These leading economists discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of technology in shaping welfare outcomes in developing...

Tue, 12 October 2021
Online, Finland
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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...

Tue, 28 September 2021Sun, 3 October 2021
Online, Seattle, United States
Past event
Conference
Better Jobs for Development 2021

The 5th annual Jobs and Development conference takes place online 1-3 September.

Wed, 1 September 2021Fri, 3 September 2021
Online, Warsaw,
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Presentation
Findings from the Economic Transformation Database presented at virtual workshop

Growth, poverty & inequality: The challenge in Africa, is a virtual workshop held on 31 August, which precedes the International summit on the SDGs in Africa 2021; a three-day, online international event, taking place 13–15 September 2021. During the...

Tue, 31 August 2021
Online, South Africa
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Presentation
Kunal Sen joins webinar on BRICS and Emerging Economies

Hear from some of the world’s leading experts on BRICS and Emerging Economies at the launch event of the Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies

Thu, 20 May 2021
Online,
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen contributes to UNIDO’s High-level Expert Consultation for the Industrial Development Report 2022

On 18 May UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen, joins UNIDO’s High-Level Expert Consultation (HLEC) on Manufacturing responses to COVID-19: Lessons for governance and policy coordination in the face of global disasters. Kunal will present recent research...

Tue, 18 May 2021
Online, 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...

Thu, 14 January 2021
Past event
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...

Wed, 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...

Fri, 30 October 2020
Past event
Project workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
Thu, 5 September 2019Fri, 6 September 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B , Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Khoa Vu on the causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
Wed, 29 May 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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...

Tue, 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
Thu, 13 December 2018
OECD, Paris, France
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
Mon, 26 November 2018
Southern Sun Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
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...

Mon, 19 November 2018
UN DESA, New York, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe present at the World Bank
Fri, 16 November 2018
World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
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Presentation
The future of extractive industries – Tony Addison and Alan Roe present to World Bank 1818 Society

Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, and UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Alan Roe will visit the World Bank in Washington, DC on 15 November. They will present to the World Bank 1818 society, the World Bank...

Thu, 15 November 2018
World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe promote new book on extractives at the IMF
Wed, 14 November 2018
International Monetary Fund (IMF) , Washington, DC, United States
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Presentation
Extractive Industries presentation at New York’s Natural Resource Governance Institute

On Tuesday 13 November Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is giving a presentation at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in New York, addressing the NRGI staff. The presentation is linked to a new UNU-WIDER...

Tue, 13 November 2018
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) , New York, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison talks in Oslo at a conference on fragility, taxation, and state-building

On 8 November Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is presenting in Oslo in a conference on The New Politics of Development: Fragility, Taxation and State-building. Addison will be chairing a session on taxation and state...

Thu, 8 November 2018
Forskningsparken, Oslo, Norway
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Presentation
Tony Addison presents at Norad
Wed, 7 November 2018
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Oslo, Norway
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Presentation
Tony Addison presents at the UNCTAD World Investment Forum

On 26 October Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison is giving a presentation in a multi-disciplinary academic conference that takes place within the UNCTAD World Investment Forum 2018 in Geneva.

Fri, 26 October 2018
Palais des Nations, Av. de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe talk extractives

Tony Addison and Alan Roe will discuss extractive industries at Oxford Policy Management seminar on 19 October

Fri, 19 October 2018
Oxford Policy Management, 52 Cornmarket Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
Researchers from extractives project present at Chatham House
Thu, 18 October 2018
Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London, United Kingdom
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