Annual Lecture

As recent projections warn that we’re off-track to reduce inequality for the 2030 deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals, the pressing need for equitable tax systems takes center stage at the 28th WIDER Annual Lecture. Esteemed economist...

Project workshop

Members of the International Labour Organization, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD team, and the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) meet in Livingstone, Zambia to further develop Zambia's tax and...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen gives the 18th Sadli Lecture on Broken Ladders? Labour Market Inequality in Indonesia and India as a part of the annual lecture series of the Australian National University (ANU) Indonesia Project. The event is hybrid...

Lecture

Annual Lecture

Project workshop

On 5 September 2023, participants from six different time zones gather for a hybrid SOUTHMOD workshop to exchange experiences and knowledge on tax-benefit microsimulation modeling in developing countries. This is the first in-person SOUTHMOD workshop...

Lecture

Lecture

On 9 May 2023, Kunal Sen and Michael Danquah will give a lecture on structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa as part of a training programme by the University of Bradford, UK. The content of the training draws from UNU-WIDER's African Cities...

Lecture

The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) hosts its 63rd Annual Conference in Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh 1–3 March 2023. On day three (3 March) of the conference, UNU-WIDER Director, Kunal Sen delivers the Valedictory...

Project workshop

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...

Lecture

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...

Lecture

Annual Lecture

Project workshop

On 1-3 August 2022, the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes a short course on poverty, inequality and growth, with a focus on Mozambique, for the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique (MEF). The training consists of an...

Project workshop

On 27–29 July 2022, the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes a course on recent trends in poverty, inequality and growth at the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM). The training is given by Vincenzo Salvucci, Assistant Professor...

Project workshop

On 18-19 July 2022, 35 participants from six different time zones and eleven different countries gather for a two-day virtual SOUTHMOD workshop to exchange experiences and knowledge on tax-benefit microsimulation modeling in developing countries. The...

Project workshop

UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database research project holds a virtual workshop that brings together researchers selected under the project's open call for research proposals. The selected papers fulfill a project aim to improve understanding...

Project workshop

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...

Lecture

On Friday, 13 May 2022 9:00-10:30 (UTC+2), Abrams M.E. Tagem will deliver a lecture at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. The lecture, entitled "The Government Revenue Dataset," will be attended by audience is mostly...

Project workshop

Project workshop

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) in Dar es Salaam 9 May 2022. The...

Project workshop

Project workshop

The use of geographic information systems (GIS) in social sciences is becoming increasingly important for understanding complex issues with a spatial dimension. This short course, organized under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme...

Project workshop

The Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes a five-day basic course on STATA during 28 March and 1 April 2022. STATA is a statistical analysis software used to analyse data patterns. The course aims to introduce participants to the...

Project workshop

During 21–25 March 2022, the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes a training for survey enumerators hired to carry out the 2022 round of the Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms (IIM 2022). The training consists of a detailed...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen gives a lecture to the staff of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). The topic of the lecture is Institutions and development. In his presentation Kunal Sen will discuss the role of...

Project workshop

The Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes, on 17 March 2022, a one-day training on designing enterprise surveys. Topics covered include sampling of formal and informal firms, survey design (finding and measuring variables of...

Project workshop

Project workshop

As part of the SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development project, a work-in progress meeting is held online between UNU-WIDER and the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) on 14 March 2022. The objective of the workshop is to present...

Project workshop

The UNU-WIDER project Addressing group-based inequalities holds a virtual workshop to discuss research on 'Experiences of Reform', the component of the project which offers a comparative assessment of worldwide efforts to reduce group-based...

Project workshop

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

Annual Lecture

Project workshop

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). The topics discussed in this meeting...

Lecture

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'...

Project workshop

The researchers under this component of The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions project meet to discuss ongoing research on 'COVID-19 and the state —comparative experiences in the Global South'...

Project workshop

Project workshop

As part of the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, project contributors under Theme A1: WWII and the legacies of fascism in Europe come together on 4 November 2021 at 3pm to present and discuss their research papers in...

Lecture

Capacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams...

Project workshop

On 14 and 18 October 2021, 15 researchers from different countries gathered together for a SOUTHMOD mini-retreat. The participants discussed different aspects of the SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation software and examined possible changes to the...

Lecture

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...

Project workshop

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

Project workshop

Project workshop

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss the first drafts of the papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the...

Project workshop

Project workshop

On 24-25 May 2021, 35 participants from six different time zones and eleven different countries gathered for a two-day virtual SOUTHMOD workshop to exchange experiences and knowledge on tax-benefit microsimulation modeling in developing countries...

Project workshop

The Tax and Development workshop will bring together researchers, tax experts and practitioners to exchange experiences on using administrative tax data in their respective countries for research purposes. The event will be attended by 40 experts...

Project workshop