Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century

On Thursday, 9 November 2023, UNU-WIDER and the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) welcome Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to Ethiopia's Prime Minister and former mayor of Addis Ababa, to present 'Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century' at Helsinki City Hall.

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Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa

UNU-WIDER at the World Investment Forum 2023

UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development initiatives are presented at the 8th World Investment Forum on 16–20 October 2023 in Abu Dhabi. The WIF offers an opportunity to influence investment-related policymaking, shape the global investment environment, and to network with global leaders in business and politics.

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Towards peace and decent work in Africa – accelerating progress on the SDGs

How can progress towards peace and decent work in Africa be accelerated to achieve the global goals by 2030, while strengthening the social contract based on equal rights and opportunities for all? 

On 26 October, UNU-WIDER and the UNECA co-host an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, bringing together experts from various UN, academic, and institutional backgrounds to debate idea on how to accelerate progress towards the goals. 

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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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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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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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WIDER Annual Lecture 24 - UN at 75: slow death or new direction?
26 October 2020
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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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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 - The political economy of structural transformation: has democracy failed African economies?
14 September 2018
Europaea hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 21 - How are people poor? Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
24 October 2017
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
23 March 2016
Stockholm School of Economics, Aula, Sveavägen 65 (entrance from Bertil Ohlins gata), Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 19 - Three Decades of Change in Development
19 September 2015
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
18 November 2014
Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
19 September 2013
Europaea Hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6 A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
27 September 2012
House of Nobility, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano, Avenida Marginal 4441, Maputo, Mozambique
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WIDER Annual Lecture 14 - Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
9 December 2010
UN Headquarters, 1st Avenue, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 13 - The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
21 October 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 12 - Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
23 February 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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