Innovation for structural transformation in Least Developed Countries – LDC Future Forum

The world is far off track from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the least developed countries (LDCs) are in danger of being left even further behind. With seven years left to 2030, we must urgently develop new ways to accelerate the needed transformations. Making better use of science, technology and innovations is key in this task. The second LDC Future Forum takes place 5–7 March 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. The event is live streamed.

LDC Future Forum 2024

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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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
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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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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
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Policy seminar
UNU-WIDER at the Effective development co-operation summit
12 December 202214 December 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
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Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD Strategy...

27 June 202228 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

14 December 202115 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia
14 October 2021
Sarovar Premiere Hotel, online, Lusaka, Zambia
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Cash Plus dissemination event
5 October 2021
Hotel Southern Sun Ridgeway, Lusaka, online, Zambia
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Assessing Presumptive Tax Policy in Uganda

This online event will be organized to introduce the results of an assessment of presumptive tax policy in Uganda. The seminar will cover effect estimates of Uganda's recent presumptive tax reform and recommendations for amending the tax regime in...

26 August 2021
Online, Kampala, Uganda
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Tony Addison at the 16th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...

30 June 20212 July 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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SA-TIED policy dialogue – Macroeconomics and inequality in South Africa
29 June 2021
Online, South Africa
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Policy seminar
Linkages between Special Economic Zone investments and the local economy
19 June 2021
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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SA-TIED policy dialogue — International trade and global value chains
28 May 2021
Online, Pretoria, South Africa
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SA-TIED policy dialogue — Climate-related investments: now or later?
12 May 2021
Online, Pretoria, South Africa
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SA-TIED policy dialogue – Tax and benefit responses to COVID-19 in South Africa
19 April 2021
Online, South Africa
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Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
4 March 2020
Kampala, Uganda
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