• Transforming economies - for better jobs

    Conference | 11-13 September 2019 | Bangkok, Thailand 

    UNU-WIDER in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize a three-day conference on transforming economies. Featuring presentations from leading scholars including Richard Baldwin, Seema Jayachandran, Ravi Kanbur, Naila Kabeer and UN ASG Elliott Harris, this WIDER Development Conference provides a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research and its policy take-aways on the challenges for productive job creation in many different country contexts, across all developing regions.

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    Informality – addressing the Achilles Heel of Social Protection in Latin America

    WIDER Annual Lecture 23

    The 2019 WIDER Annual Lecture by Santiago Levy is to be held on Wednesday 30 October 2019 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. The event is organized in collaboration with the Graduate Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development.

    The lecture will be delivered by Santiago Levy, main architect of Progresa/Oportunidades — Mexico's incentive-based health, nutrition and education program for the poor.

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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. The weekly sessions held in Helsinki are open to local and visiting researchers, policy makers, and others working on development topics.

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    Think development – Think WIDER

    WIDER Development Conference

    The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. There will be panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation, inclusion and sustainability. It will take stock of what we have learned, look to the future of development economics, and global development more broadly, serving as a bridge to fresh UNU-WIDER initiatives, aiming to mobilize evidence and action around the 2030 SDG agenda and its goals. 

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Mozmod presentation 2019 Presentation of MOZMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Mozambique
3 July 2019
Ministry of Economic and Finance, Julius Nyerere Avenue, Maputo, Mozambique
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Seminar
Sanjay Reddy on the UN Development System

Sanjay Reddy presented at UNU-WIDER on Wednesday 23 June. Abstract – The UN’s Development Function: Time for Renewal The United Nations’ development function is vital to its purpose. Although the UN has many outstanding development...

26 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10

Charles Gore presented at the WIDER Seminar Series on 19 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10 Presentation slides An important feature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed as...

19 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Cape Town © Unsplash/Tim Johnson Amina Ebrahim on can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa
12 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Project workshop
SOUTHMOD workshop Photo: UNU-WIDER 2019 SOUTHMOD workshop
6 June 2019 – 7 June 2019
Park Inn by Radisson Cape Town Newlands, 10 Hemlock Street Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
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Seminar
UNDP and Oxford Policy Management present findings from upcoming report
5 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Shreshti Rawat on inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications

Shreshti Rawat will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 4 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications The persistence of a large informal sector in India has been a matter of...

4 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
© Utsav Srestha/unsplash Patricia Funjika on social stratification and intergenerational mobility in Africa - examining linkages with pre-colonial African society
4 June 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Economics and the traps of economic thought

Professor Ana Lisa Moutinho, Atlântico Business School , will give a presentation on 29 May 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, on "Economia e as armadilhas do pensamento económico" (Economics and the traps of...

29 May 2019
Faculty of Economics, Postgraduate Room, the Eduardo Mondlane University, Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453, Main Campus, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Seminar
Unsplash teacher Khoa Vu on the causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
29 May 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Kunal Sen to deliver keynote address during the 75th Session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Kunal Sen, Director of UNU-WIDER, will be the keynote speaker in the panel discussion on Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2019 on Tuesday, 28 May in Bangkok. The session is one of the high-level events taking place during...

28 May 2019
UNESCAP, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue and Klong Phadung Krungkasem Road, Bangkok, Thailand
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Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the World Village Festival
25 May 2019 – 26 May 2019
UN Village/YK-Kylä, Railway Square, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Vito Peragine Vito Peragine on Measuring inequality of opportunity: recent empirical findings and some new theoretical results
22 May 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Constantino Marrengula presentation on the monetary market in Mozambique

Constantino Marrengula, Assistant Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, will give a presentation 22 May 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, entitled Analise dos Efeitos da Concentração da Indústria Bancá...

22 May 2019
Faculty of Economics, Postgraduate Room, the Eduardo Mondlane University, Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453, Main Campus, Maputo, Mozambique
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Presentation
WIDER research and impact – introducing the Estonian School of Diplomacy to the work of UNU-WIDER
21 May 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Josenilde Janguia presents on the informal sector in Mozambique

Josenilde Janguia will give a presentation on 15 May 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, with the title Análise Factorial Exploratória do Sector Informal em Moçambique: Abordagem do Comércio de Rua na...

15 May 2019
Faculty of Economics, Postgraduate Room, the Eduardo Mondlane University, Main Campus, Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453, Maputo, Mozambique
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