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.

27 past and upcoming events

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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
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WIDER Annual Lecture 26 - In the name of progress: Will technology solve inequality?
7 October 2022
Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 #18a-12, Bogotá, Colombia
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WIDER Annual Lecture 23 - Informality: addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
30 October 2019
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, Geneva, Switzerland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 - The political economy of structural transformation: has democracy failed African economies?
14 September 2018
Europaea hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 21 - How are people poor? Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
24 October 2017
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
23 March 2016
Stockholm School of Economics, Aula, Sveavägen 65 (entrance from Bertil Ohlins gata), Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 19 - Three Decades of Change in Development
19 September 2015
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
18 November 2014
Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
19 September 2013
Europaea Hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6 A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
27 September 2012
House of Nobility, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano, Avenida Marginal 4441, Maputo, Mozambique
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WIDER Annual Lecture 14 - Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
9 December 2010
UN Headquarters, 1st Avenue, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 13 - The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
21 October 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 12 - Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?
23 February 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 11 - The Climate Change Challenge
6 March 2008
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 10 - Global Patterns of Income and Health

People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we take income and health together, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone.

29 September 2006
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 9 - The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
26 October 2005
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 8 - Rethinking Growth Strategies

This lecture, ‘Rethinking Growth Strategies’, focuses on growth because we can all agree that achieving sustained poverty reduction around the world will be practically impossible unless economic growth is achieved in poor countries.

5 November 2004
Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms

The 2003 Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University on the topic of ‘Global Labour Standards and Freedom of Choice’, and took place at Ritarihuone in Helsinki on 10 November.

10 November 2003
Ritarihuone, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 6 - Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization

Professor Jeffrey Williamson of Harvard University accepted the invitation to deliver the 2002 Annual Lecture entitled ‘Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization’. It took place at the University of Copenhagen on 5 September 2002.

5 September 2002
University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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WIDER Annual Lecture 5 - Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development

This lecture will focus on horizontal inequality, i.e. inequality among culturally defined groups (e.g. the Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or Catholic and Protestants in N.Ireland), and the implications this has for...

14 December 2001
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 4 - Globalization and Appropriate Governance

Globalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but...

27 November 2000
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 3 - Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus

Many people believe that rising income inequality is inevitable. It is the result of forces, such as technological change, over which we have no control, or of developments such as globalisation, which are irreversible.

1 November 1999
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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WIDER Annual Lecture 2 - More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz discussed the new thinking in development economics that goes beyond the Washington consensus about macroeconomic fundamentals and examine how the government can act as a complement to markets.

7 January 1998
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 1 - The New Institutional Economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem

Although a growing number of emerging democracies and other systems are turning to free market policies to spur their economic growth, many of them are finding that these policies are not always successful.

7 March 1997
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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