• Reducing inequality – the great challenge of our time

    WIDER Development Conference in partnership with UNIANDES | 5-7 October 2022 | Bogotá, Colombia

    This conference provides a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research on inequality, and its policy take-aways. It will take stock of where we are, evaluate progress made, and identify what challenges lay ahead.

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    Think WIDER Webinar Series

    Our latest webinar series New perspectives on domestic revenue mobilization aims to facilitate a discussion on how domestic revenue mobilization can be supported in the Global South. The monthly series covers a range of topics related to the development of tax systems, non-tax domestic revenue mobilization, and political institutions.

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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series is back! Join us *ONLINE* for research seminars that showcase the latest research on key topics in development economics. 
    In spring 2022, the Seminar Series events take place on Wednesdays from 16:00–17:00 on Zoom.

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Nanak Kakwani’s legacy on the study of income inequality, poverty, and tax progressivity - Launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Income Distribution

The Journal of Income Distribution has annouced a special issue in honor of Professor Nanak Kakwani’s contribution to the study of income inequality, poverty and tax progressivity. Professor Nanak Kakwani made important contributions at the...

28 September 2022
Online, Germany
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia to deliver keynote presentation at the 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB)

Antonio Savoia , Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the upcoming 2022 International Conference on the Balkans (ICOB). ICOB 2022,...

27 September 2022 – 29 September 2022
IUS Campus, Hrasnička cesta 15, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Past event
Presentation
Chris King / Unsplash Climbing the job ladder – presentation at the World Bank of forthcoming UNU-WIDER book
26 September 2022
World Bank - hybrid, (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Past event
Seminar
Christine Valente on Subjective expectations and demand for contraception
21 September 2022
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Nauro Ferreira Campos on the Political U: New evidence on democracy and income
20 September 2022
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Fiscal States panel at APSA 2022 annual meeting

On 16 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Fiscal States in Developing Countries: Origins and Developmental Implications ...

16 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal , Montreal, Canada
Past event
Policy workshop
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@bakhrom_media?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Bakhrom Tursunov</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/methane?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopy Looking ahead to COP27: from climate pledges to action
14 September 2022
Online, 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, the Zambia Revenue Authority ( ZRA ) and Zambia Institute for Policy...

14 September 2022
ZRA, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Webinar
Tax effort revisited: How much tax can low-income countries expect to collect?
13 September 2022
Online, Finland
Past event
Workshop
African Tax Administration Forum Master Class in collaboration with UNU-WIDER
8 September 2022
Movenpick hotel, Accra, Ghana
Past event
Seminar
Gabriela Zapata on the role of the family of origin in shaping inequality of opportunity in Chile
7 September 2022
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Addressing group-based inequalities presents at the APSA 2022 annual meeting

On 17 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Addressing ethnic inequality: Experiences of reform. The panel, chaired by UNU-...

6 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal , Montreal, Canada
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER's tax administrative data work presented at the launch of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research
1 September 2022 – 2 September 2022
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen to present at TaxCapDev conference

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen presents at the TaxCapDev conference Power and Politics – Perspectives on Taxation and State Building in Africa on 1-2 September 2022, held in Bergen, Norway. Kunal Sen will participate in two panels over the...

1 September 2022 – 2 September 2022
Terminus Hall, Grand Terminus Hotel, Zander Kaaes gate 6, Bergen, Norway
Past event
Seminar
Vanessa Carrión-Yaguana on labor regulations and formal employment

Vanessa Carrión-Yaguana will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 31 August 2022. Labor regulations and formal employment: Evidence from Ecuadorian firms in the Galapagos Islands Abstract The Special Regimen of the Galapagos Province´...

31 August 2022
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
The good jobs challenge in developing countries | a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Kunal Sen

On 30 August 2022, United Nations University hosts, 'The good jobs challenge in developing countries', a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Kunal Sen, Director of UNU-WIDER. This event is held via Zoom at 18:00 (UTC+9). Around 80 per cent of the...

30 August 2022
Online, Japan
Past event
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