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Laura Saavedra-Lux, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, presents her working paper on the connections of foreign direct investment and conflicts at the conference on African economic development (AEDC), organized by the Centre for Economic Policy...

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UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents at a meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax and Gender (CoP). Together with Laura Abramovsky from ODI/IFS, Pia Rattenhuber will provide an overview of methodologies and discuss implications for...

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Kunal Sen joins the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) Economist Network webinar to present on the jobs challenge in Asia-Pacific. The webinar presents insights from the UNU-WIDER book Job Ladder.The webinar tackles the following...

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UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen speaks at the 4th Development Economics Conference at the University of Lincoln. His session will share new findings on the relationship between earnings inequality or wage polarization and globalization, technological...

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UNU-WIDER is represented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations (ACUNS) by Rachel M. Gisselquist, where she will share research findings on addressing gender and group-based inequalities and multilateral efforts to...

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UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents, 'Practical benefits of exploiting the complementarity between research and development – examples from sub-Saharan Africa' at the 2024 ATI General Assembly.Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM)...

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UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow Jukka Pirttilä takes part in the Nordic Conference in Development Economics, NCDE 2024, organized by the University of Copenhagen. The event will take place 17-18 June 2024, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Researchers with The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance – @EQUAL project present their WIDER Working Papers at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark. Full programme Presentations...

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In May, UNU-WIDER researcher Kwabena Adu-Ababio presents at the 2024 ZEW Public Finance Conference in Mannheim, Germany.

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UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, Richard Kima presents his work-in-progress Working Paper titled ‘Estimating the Macroeconomic Costs of Power Outages in South Africa at the South African Reserve Bank Research’ Seminar on April 11, 2024, and at the...

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UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Amina Ebrahim speaks at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. She presents the findings of a forthcoming WIDER Working Paper to the research staff. Her findings support opportunities for expanding knowledge...

Policy workshop

UNU-WIDER hosts an inception workshop on labour market inequality and intergenerational mobility part of the new inequality theme as part of our current 2024–27 work programme. On 16 April 2024, we host a collaborative brainstorming session that...

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Carol Newman, co-academic lead for SA-TIED's Workstream 1 on Enterprise development for job creation and growth, will present an SA-TIED Working Paper titled "Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective" at the...