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UNU-WIDER hosts special session at the AERC biannual research workshop on ‘The job ladder’As part of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) biannual research workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, UNU-WIDER coordinates a special session on the forthcoming book The job ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing...
Seminar
Xiaobing Wang on finding common prosperity in China
Project workshop
SA-TIED technical workshop on the strengths and limitations of long-term structural models
Presentation
MOZMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection WeekThe Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 21-27 November 2022. During the week, on 25 November, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...
Seminar
Eleonora Nillesen on Breaking down menstrual barriers in Bangladesh
Project workshop
Structural change in developing countries – ETD project workshopOn 21 November 2022, commissioned research from the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project is presented at the first of three workshops. The research aims to improve our understanding of structural transformation —how it varies, why it...
Webinar
Critical minerals and revenue generationUNU-WIDER and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) host the sixth researchers’ seminar on Extractive industries: Taxation and revenues. This online seminar, themed Critical minerals and...
Lecture
13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal SenThe 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...
Project meeting
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in TanzaniaAs 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...
Conference
International Research Conference on the Effectiveness of Development CooperationUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC), and the European Commission (DG INTPA), is jointly organizing an international research...
Seminar
Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu on Assessing Africa’s position and prospects in global dematerialization
Workshop
Development economics PhD workshop
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SOUTHMOD research presented at the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth conferenceThe International Association for Research in Income and Wealth ( IARIW ), in collaboration with the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics ( TNBS ), organizes a conference on Measuring Income, Wealth and Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa on 11-13...
Workshop
TAZMOD retreatThe fifth training event on TAZMOD , the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania, is organized as a five-day research retreat, intended to empower participants to use TAZMOD to answer their own policy questions. The retreat is composed of two...
Presentation
Kunal Sen joins the Oxford Union debate series: This house blames western lenders for the plight of developing countriesOn 3 November 2022, Kunal Sen attends the prestigious Oxford Union debate on the motion ‘This House Blames Western Lenders for the Plight of Developing Countries’. According to the World Bank, the pandemic pushed the foreign debt of low-...