Blog
Youth Unemployment in the Arab World: What Do We know? What is the Way Forward?
by
Imed Drine
June 2012
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
Blog
Higher education and role models key for supporting further gender equality
by
Elli Keränen
February 2016
Gender equality is one of the cross-cutting concerns of the UNU-WIDER work programme 2014-18. In this interview economists Elizabeth Asiedu and Jean...
Blog
Baseline survey on Mozambican university graduates’ school-to-work transitions – looking forward to the launch
by
Felix Mambo
August 2018
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique will be launched on 4 September. This baseline survey is part...
Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (June-August 2015)
And so we come to the summer Angle. We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight. The seagulls nesting...
Blog
Beyond the Crisis of the African University - Why Institutions Matter
by
Roger Williamson
June 2015
I recently returned from a week at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, speaking at a conference honouring Nobel laureate Desmond...
Presentation
Group visit by the students of Hokkaido University
Group visit by students of Hokkaido University, Japan, for briefing on UNU-WIDER's mandate and research, particularly ongoing research work within the project on Foreign Aid, Recom: Research and Communications
Thu, 30 August 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Group visit by the Helsinki Students' UN Association (HYKY ry)
Group visit by the Helsinki Students’ UN Association for a seminar on UNU-WIDER’s mandate and research programme, with a research presentation on the UNU-WIDER project ‘Development Under Climate Change’ given by James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU...
Thu, 3 May 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Launch of collaboration for joint University of Ghana–UNU-WIDER research and post-graduate teaching programme
UNU-WIDER’s collaboration with the University of Ghana for a joint research and post-graduate teaching programme is launched in presence of the Rector of the United Nations University Professor Konrad Osterwalder and the Vice-Chancellor of the...
Mon, 11 June 2012
The Great Hall, University of Ghana,
Accra,
Ghana
Past event
Blog
From Helsinki to Hanoi – An Interview with UNU-WIDER Alumnus Aziz Karimov
21 February 2014 Susan Servas An interview with WIDER alumnus, Aziz Karimov Every year UNU-WIDER hosts a number of PhD interns and young scholars from...
Blog
The Gothenburg Graduates and their Impact in Africa – How Aid has Worked: An Interview with Wisdom Akpalu
by
Carl-Gustav Lindén
August 2013
29 August 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén Since 1997 the University of Gothenburg, Sweden has been running a unique PhD programme on environmental and...
Seminar
Research Fellows Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos present at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique seminar series
UNU-WIDER Research Fellows Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos will present in a seminar on 6 March at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. The topic of the seminar is the profile of students of the Eduardo Mondlane University. The presentation is based...
Wed, 6 March 2019
Eduardo Mondlane University, Campus Principal, Faculty of Economics, Anfeteatro A,
Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event