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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Abu Dhabi Unsplash/Kamil-Rogalinski

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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Navigating administrative data access: strategies, reasons, and partner perspectives

The United Nations World institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the National Treasury of South Africa, the Spatial Economic Activity Data South Africa, and the Southern African Towards Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme, with...

4 December 2023 09:00 – 8 December 2023 17:00
Stats SA Auditorium, ISIbalo House, Koch Street; Salvokop , Pretoria, South Africa
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Seminar
Nadine Riedel on the effectiveness of countermeasures against multinational tax avoidance
29 November 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
CGD webinar on methane, people on the screen Extractives for Development work presented at Center for Global Development webinar
21 November 2023
Online, United States
Past event
Workshop
First PERUMOD training and launch event

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad del Pacífico in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes the first training and launch...

20 November 2023 – 23 November 2023
Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
Past event
Webinar
Financial Benefit Sharing in the Energy Transition

UNU-WIDER and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) host the sevent researchers’ seminar on Extractive industries: Taxation and revenues. This online seminar, themed Financial Benefit Sharing in the...

16 November 2023
Online, Netherlands
Past event
Seminar
Gabriela Zapata Román on The motherhood effect on women's labour trajectories: preliminary results
15 November 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, 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
Presentation
New York scryscraper silhouette search image. Image: Zach Miles / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at the Dialogue on Tax and SDGs conference
14 November 2023 – 17 November 2023
Online, New York, United States
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
Past event
Lecture
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
Workshop
African urbanization – bridging the gap to structural transformation

Urbanization has long been associated with structural transformation—the shift of workers from low-productivity sectors to high-productivity ones. This shift is crucial to fostering economic growth and reducing poverty. However, the story of African...

9 November 2023 – 10 November 2023
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Conference
Agricultural development in Mozambique: trends, challenges and opportunities

The importance of the agricultural sector in the Mozambican economy, its potential to help move people out of poverty, and its vulnerability to the effects of weather shocks and climate change, place it among key policy areas in the country. However...

8 November 2023
Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Workshop
First ZANMOD training and launch event

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Zanzibar Revenue Authority (ZRA) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) organizes the first training event on the ZANMOD model, along with...

30 October 2023 – 2 November 2023
Golden Tulip Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Panel discussion
Towards peace and decent work in Africa: Accelerating progress on the SDGs
26 October 2023
UNECA, United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Past event
Rule of Law Day

On 26 October the Rule of Law center hosts Rule of Law Day at the University of Helsinki's City Centre Campus and online. This event is an integral part of the Rule of Law Centre's commitment to fostering dialogue on international development...

26 October 2023
University of Helsinki's City Centre Campus, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Stefan Leeffers on the effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique
25 October 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Sixth training on TAZMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with UNU-WIDER, and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) organizes a training event on TAZMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation...

25 October 2023 – 27 October 2023
Golden Tulip Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Seminar
Iván Torre on Educational mobility in Europe and Central Asia
19 October 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Second RWAMOD training

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), are organizing the second in-person training workshop on...

18 October 2023 – 20 October 2023
Kigali, Rwanda
Past event
Workshop
Findings from recent research using RWAMOD

As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) are organizing a stakeholder meeting on findings from recent...

18 October 2023
Online, Kigali, Rwanda
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the World Investment Forum 2023

UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development initiatives are presented at the 8th World Investment Forum, which takes place on 16-20 October 2023 in Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. Some of the sessions will be livestreamed, join here. Register...

16 October 2023 – 20 October 2023
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Khaleej Al Arabi Street, United Arab Emirates
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
Past event
Workshop
Stata data management training

A three day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) in Lusaka, Zambia on 9-11 October 2023...

9 October 2023 – 11 October 2023
Zambia Revenue Authority, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Panel discussion
UN HQ Accelerating progress towards fairer societies
4 October 2023
United Nations Headquarters, Room CR 11, 405 E 45th St, New York, New York, United States
Past event
Workshop
Stata data management training

A five day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and Zanzibar Revenue Authority (ZRA) in Stonetown, Zanzibar on 2-6 October 2023. Few people in...

2 October 2023 – 6 October 2023
Zanzibar, Stonetown, Tanzania
Past event
Presentation
Bangkok - Unsplash - Nick van den Berg The developer’s dilemma – discussion event with ESCAP
26 September 2023
ESCAP, Theatre, UNCC, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Khwaeng Bang Khun Phrom, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand
Past event
Panel discussion
Bangkok - Unsplash - Frida Aguilar Estrada Accelerating progress towards decent work and fairer societies – joint event with ESCAP
26 September 2023
ESCAP, CR-4, UNCC, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Khwaeng Bang Khun Phrom, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand
Past event
Workshop
Difference-in-Differences (DiD) training with Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna

From 25–27 September 2023, UNU-WIDER will be offering a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) training on its premises with Dr Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna. The training will be offered by invitation only to external participants from Helsinki Graduate School of...

25 September 2023 – 27 September 2023
UNU-WIDER Sustainability Library, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
UNU-WIDER at UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week: Young voices in peace research

UNU-WIDER takes part in UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week 21 September 2023. In partnership with UN Youth of Finland and Saferglobe, UNU-WIDER organizes Young voices in peace research.

21 September 2023
Huolintatalo, Pasilankatu 2, 00101, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Report on aid and social protection systems in the Global South shared with Swedish development agency

Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, is invited to speak and share results at a half-day workshop on 'Social protection in the Global South: evidence, sustainability, climate change and migration, and the role of aid...

21 September 2023
Sida, rm. Höga Kusten, Sundbyberg, Rissneleden 10, Stockholm, Sweden
Past event
Presentation
Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion

Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at the BTI Symposium on Countering Democratic Erosion: Resilience, Depolarization and Inclusion organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Her participation in the event will include dissemination of key findings from UNU...

21 September 2023 – 22 September 2023
Landgut Stober, Behnitzer Dorfstraße 27-31, Nauen, Germany
Past event
Seminar
Paulo Santos presents evidence on the agricultural origins of prejudice from multiple Asian societies
20 September 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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