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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Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Uganda

On 9 April 2024, UNU-WIDER's Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme, financed by Norad, hosts a work-in-progress meeting in continuation of the collaborative efforts with Uganda.Master's students present their theses, highlighting recent...

9 April 2024
Hybrid, Finland
Past event
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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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Zambia

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in-progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) in Lusaka on 9-11 August 2023. The...

9 August 2023 – 11 August 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Zambia

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in-progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) in Lusaka on 21 and 23 June 2023. The...

21 June 2023 – 23 June 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Tanzania

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) in Dar es Salaam 8-12 May 2023. The...

8 May 2023 – 12 May 2023
TRA, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Tanzania

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in-progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and University of Dar es Salaam in...

17 November 2022
TRA headquarters, Dodoma, Tanzania
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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Uganda
12 October 2022
Uganda Revenue Authority, Kampala, Uganda
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 26 - In the name of progress: Will technology solve inequality?
7 October 2022
Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 #18a-12, Bogotá, Colombia
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Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Zambia

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in-progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER, the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis...

14 September 2022
ZRA, Lusaka, Zambia
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
9 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Project meeting
Cash Plus final meeting
28 July 2021
Lusaka, Zambia
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Project meeting
Second Cash Plus work in progress meeting

UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation team, in collaboration with the senior partners from Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), as well as the...

8 June 2021
Online, Lusaka, Zambia
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Project meeting
Cash Plus work in progress meeting

UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation team, in collaboration with the senior partners from Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), as well as the...

26 April 2021
Online, Lusaka, Zambia
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 24 - UN at 75: slow death or new direction?
26 October 2020
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 23 - Informality: addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
30 October 2019
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, Geneva, Switzerland
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Sixth steering committee meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)
17 September 2019
Central Statistical Organization (CSO) , Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma)
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