News
Press release: COVID-19 could drive global poverty back over one billion people as the world’s poorest face up to US$500 million per day in lost income
In dramatic new numbers researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the world’s richest nations, the G7, should have finished. The researchers are now calling for...
Conference
COVID-19 and development - effects and new realities for the Global South
Mon, 6 September 2021
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Wed, 8 September 2021
Online,
Past event
Seminar
Towards UN LDC5: Recovery from COVID-19
Wed, 21 October 2020
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Fri, 23 October 2020
Past event
Conference
Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Thu, 11 February 2021
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Fri, 12 February 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project workshop
2021 SOUTHMOD workshop
On 24-25 May 2021, 35 participants from six different time zones and eleven different countries gathered for a two-day virtual SOUTHMOD workshop to exchange experiences and knowledge on tax-benefit microsimulation modeling in developing countries...
Mon, 24 May 2021
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Tue, 25 May 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the IAB seminar series
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is hosting an online seminar series "Corona - leveler or amplifier of social and economic inequality?". The weekly seminar series aims to bring together empirically rigorous contributions from the fields of...
Wed, 19 May 2021
Online,
Nuremberg,
Germany
Past event
Seminar
Seminar with the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on the labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns
Simone Schotte presented the recently published WIDER Working Paper on The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Eevidence from Ghana for the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics seminar series. The research, part of the project on...
Tue, 20 April 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at a UNU-WIDER conference
UNU-WIDER organized a two-day online conference on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Africa on 11-12 February 2021. The preliminary results of an ongoing SOUTHMOD study were presented on the second day of the conference. The conference Development...
Fri, 12 February 2021
Past event
News
Life with Corona survey is now available in 27 languages
Life with Corona survey has been tracking the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 around the world for almost a year now. Tens of thousands of people have already contributed their views. The online questionnaire takes just 10 minutes to complete...
Seminar
François Bourguignon on COVID-19 and inequality
Tue, 23 February 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia
Thu, 14 October 2021
Sarovar Premiere Hotel, online,
Lusaka,
Zambia
Past event
Project workshop
COVID-19 and the State —comparative experiences in the Global South
Mon, 22 November 2021
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Tue, 23 November 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
Project workshop
COVID-19 impact and policy response across Indian States
The researchers under this component of The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions project meet to discuss ongoing research on 'COVID-19 and the state —comparative experiences in the Global South'...
Thu, 2 December 2021
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Fri, 3 December 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
Workshop
Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward Fairer
The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite speakers...
Fri, 3 December 2021
Online,
Bangkok,
Thailand
Past event
Seminar
Kunal Sen discusses COVID-19 and subnational state capacity in India
Kunal Sen delivers a seminar on key findings from the UNU-WIDER research project COVID-19 and subnational state capacity in India at the School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University in Delhi, India. The project's detailed studies of the...
Thu, 23 February 2023
School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University,
Room 301, Admin Block, Kashmere Gate Campus,
Delhi,
India
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER researchers join UNDESA 2022 virtual expert group meeting
During 27-30 June UNU-WIDER researchers, Michael Danquah and Simone Schotte join the expert group meeting hosted virtually by Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) on Creating full and...
Mon, 27 June 2022
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Thu, 30 June 2022
Online,
Past event
News
Kunal Sen at the high-level LDC regional review meeting
UNU-WIDER director Kunal Sen has been invited to contribute as a panelist to the High-level Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting on the Istanbul Programme of Action in Preparation for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-5). The regional review meeting will take place 30 August - 2 September 2021, in Geneva and virtually.
Seminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The economic recession in Mozambique
On Wednesday 23 February 2022, Michael Sambo, Researcher at IESE, will present a recent study entitled The economic recession in Mozambique: Was it COVID-19? – A look from the external sector. The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series, organized...
Wed, 23 February 2022
Faculty of Economics, Auditorium University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM),
Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453, Main Campus,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event