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.

WIDER Seminar Series

The WIDER Seminar Series has returned! Beginning in March, join either online or in person for the 2024 season of this exciting event series to hear the latest research in development.

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CSPR MicroZAMOD training workshop

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) is excited to announce a CSPR MicroZAMOD training workshop in Lusaka from 25–28 March 2024. This intensive four-day event is part of the SOUTHMOD project and aims to bring together staff members of CSPR...

25 March 202428 March 2024
Lusaka, Zambia
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UNU-WIDER facilitates learning at 2024 ATI Tax Gap Workshop

Organized by the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI), in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s AFRITAC East and Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), UNU-WIDER and the World Bank’s Global Tax Program.

19 March 202421 March 2024
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Navigating administrative data access: strategies, reasons, and partner perspectives

The United Nations World institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the National Treasury of South Africa, the Spatial Economic Activity Data South Africa, and the Southern African Towards Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme, with...

4 December 20238 December 2023
Stats SA Auditorium, ISIbalo House, Koch Street; Salvokop , Pretoria, South Africa
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First PERUMOD training and launch event

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad del Pacífico in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes the first training and launch...

20 November 202323 November 2023
Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
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Introduction to Spatial Data Using QGIS

On 14 -16 November 2023, SA-TIED will to host a comprehensive training workshop on the "Introduction to Spatial Data Using QGIS” at Statistics South Africa. The training is tailored for SA-TIED programme partners and will be delivered by Dr. Bruno...

14 November 202316 November 2023
Stats SA Auditorium, ISibalo House, Koch Street; Salvokop , Pretoria, South Africa
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SA-TIED workshop: Workstream 5 – WEF in the context of climate change

The Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme will host a work-in-progress workshop for Workstream 5: Food, Energy, and Water in a Context of Climate Change at Stellenbosch University. This workshop, scheduled for...

10 November 2023
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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African urbanization – bridging the gap to structural transformation

Urbanization has long been associated with structural transformation—the shift of workers from low-productivity sectors to high-productivity ones. This shift is crucial to fostering economic growth and reducing poverty. However, the story of African...

9 November 202310 November 2023
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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First ZANMOD training and launch event

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Zanzibar Revenue Authority (ZRA) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) organizes the first training event on the ZANMOD model, along with...

30 October 20232 November 2023
Golden Tulip Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Sixth training on TAZMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with UNU-WIDER, and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) organizes a training event on TAZMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation...

25 October 202327 October 2023
Golden Tulip Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Second RWAMOD training

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), are organizing the second in-person training workshop on...

18 October 202320 October 2023
Kigali, Rwanda
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Findings from recent research using RWAMOD

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) are organizing a stakeholder meeting on findings from recent...

18 October 2023
Online, Kigali, Rwanda
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Annual Lecture
AL27-thumbnail Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality
10 October 2023
The Gamle Festsal (Old Assembly Hall) in the Domus Academica of the University of Oslo, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo, Norway
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Stata data management training

A three day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) in Lusaka, Zambia on 9-11 October 2023...

9 October 202311 October 2023
Zambia Revenue Authority, Lusaka, Zambia
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Stata data management training

A five day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and Zanzibar Revenue Authority (ZRA) in Stonetown, Zanzibar on 2-6 October 2023. Few people in...

2 October 20236 October 2023
Zanzibar, Stonetown, Tanzania
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Difference-in-Differences (DiD) training with Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna

From 25–27 September 2023, UNU-WIDER will be offering a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) training on its premises with Dr Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna. The training will be offered by invitation only to external participants from Helsinki Graduate School of...

25 September 202327 September 2023
UNU-WIDER Sustainability Library, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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UNU-WIDER at UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week: Young voices in peace research

UNU-WIDER takes part in UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week 21 September 2023. In partnership with UN Youth of Finland and Saferglobe, UNU-WIDER organizes Young voices in peace research.

21 September 2023
Huolintatalo, Pasilankatu 2, 00101, Helsinki, Finland
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Report on aid and social protection systems in the Global South shared with Swedish development agency

Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, is invited to speak and share results at a half-day workshop on 'Social protection in the Global South: evidence, sustainability, climate change and migration, and the role of aid...

21 September 2023
Sida, rm. Höga Kusten, Sundbyberg, Rissneleden 10, Stockholm, Sweden
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African Tax Administration Forum Master Class in collaboration with UNU-WIDER

African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) through its Tax Academy organizes a Tax Research Master Class workshop in collaboration with UNU-WIDER. The workshop is held at the African Tax Research Network (ATRN) 8th Annual Congress on 1 September 2023...

1 September 2023
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Second GHAMOD retreat

In collaboration with the national GHAMOD team and Institute for Statistics, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana UNU-WIDER organizes a 5-day GHAMOD training event, a capacity development initiative allowing participants to...

28 August 20231 September 2023
ISSER, Accra, Ghana
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Third MOZMOD retreat

In collaboration with the national MOZMOD team, International Labour Organization (ILO) Mozambique, Ministry of Economic and Finance of Mozambique (MEF) and the Southern Africa for Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), UNU-WIDER organizes a 3-day...

22 August 202324 August 2023
Usahaka Hotel, Maputo provincial, Mozambique
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Second MicroZAMOD retreat

In collaboration with the national MicroZAMOD team, International Labour Organization (ILO) Zambia, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis (ZIPAR) and the Southern Africa for Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), UNU-WIDER organizes a 5-day...

21 August 202325 August 2023
Livingstone, Zambia
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Sixth training on ECUAMOD

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at FLACSO in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes the sixth training event on the ECUAMOD model...

31 July 20238 August 2023
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador
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Second UGAMOD retreat

The fourth training event on UGAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda, is organized as a five-day research retreat, intended to empower participants to use UGAMOD to answer their own policy questions. The retreat is composed of two...

10 July 202314 July 2023
Uganda Revenue Authority, Kampala, Uganda
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COLMOD training

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad Externado de Colombia in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes a training event on...

10 July 202314 July 2023
Online, Colombia
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Winter School research workshop

UNU-WIDER organised a Winter School on tax policy research in June-July 2022. In 8 June 2023, the participants of the Winter School come together for an online research workshop. The workshop aims to bring all the 27 participants together online, to...

8 June 2023
Online, Finland
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Bunching Estimators in Applied Economics Research

Prof. Mazhar Wassem teaches a workshop on bunching methods 30 May from 13:00–15:00 (UTC+3). The workshop is held in person at UNU-WIDER's Sustainability Library. The workshop will cover the following topics, drawing largely upon Kleven (2016) and...

30 May 2023
Sustainability Library - UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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ETMOD retreat

The third training event on ETMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia, is organized as a five-day research retreat, intended to empower participants to use ETMOD to answer their own policy questions. The retreat is composed of two...

15 May 202319 May 2023
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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SA-TIED workshop: Workstream 5 – WEF in the context of climate change

On 12 May 2023, the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme will host a work in progress workshop for workstream 5: Food, Energy, and Water in a Context of Climate Change at the Development Bank of South Africa...

12 May 2023
Development Bank of Southern Africa, 1258 Lever Rd, Headway Hill, Midrand, 1685, Pretoria, South Africa
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Research workshop on war and reconstruction in Ukraine

From 8–9 May 2023, UNU-WIDER holds a research workshop bringing together an international group of researchers with expertise in conflict and peacebuilding to discuss new research that can support policymakers’ discussions on the stabilization...

8 May 20239 May 2023
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Work-in-progress workshop –SA-TIED workstream 1-3

On the 19th and 20th of April 2023, SA-TIED will host a Work-in-progress author workshop for workstreams 1-3. This workshop is a closed event designed exclusively for authors of commissioned research papers and accepted research proposals from the...

19 April 202320 April 2023
Protea Hotel Johannesburg Balalaika Sandton, Maude St, Sandown, Sandton, 2126, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Second VNMOD retreat

The fifth training event on VNMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Viet Nam, is organized as a five-day research retreat, intended to empower participants to use VNMOD to answer their own policy questions. The retreat is composed of two...

17 April 202321 April 2023
CIEM, 68 Phan Dinh Phung Street, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Stata data management training for revenue authorities

A new three day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in Kampala, Uganda on 3-5 April 2023. Few people in revenue authorities have the skills to manage...

3 April 20235 April 2023
Digital Den, Uganda Revenue Authority, Kampala, Uganda
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