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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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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Kunal Sen gives the 2024 annual Sadli Lecture—Broken Ladders? Labour Market Inequality in Indonesia and India

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...

8 May 2024 05:008 May 2024 07:00
Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
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Project meeting
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
Policy seminar
Uganda TIN registration form, calculator, currency, pen. Image: Kalungi Kabuye / UNU-WIDER Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
15 November 2023
Hotel Protea by Marriott, Elgon Terrace, Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Receipt from a card machine in a grocery store. Image: Imani Nsamila Improved compliance and a renewed social contract for the SDGs
10 November 2023
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century
9 November 2023
Event Square at Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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 202311 August 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
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 202323 June 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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Sustainable cities discussion forum: SDG 13
26 May 2023
Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Helsinki, Finland
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UNU-WIDER researchers deliver lecture on structural transformation to professionals from the African Development Bank

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...

9 May 2023
University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Past event
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 202312 May 2023
TRA, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Lecture
Kunal Sen delivers Valedictory address at the 63rd annual ISLE conference

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...

3 March 2023
Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Zambian administrative tax data

In collaboration with the Research and Statistics Unit at the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), UNU-WIDER organizes a dissemination workshop on two studies evaluating tax compliance in Zambia. This event allows all key stakeholders to acquaint...

1 March 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Policy seminar
UNU-WIDER at the Effective development co-operation summit
12 December 202214 December 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Lecture
13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal Sen

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...

21 November 2022
CDS, Prasanth Nagar, Medical College P.O., Ulloor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Past event
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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Lecture
Sustainable cities discussion forum: SDG 4
26 October 202227 October 2022
Helsinki, Finland
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