Presentation
International Economic Association 17th World Congress
UNU-WIDER organized two sessions during the 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association. Learning to Compete – Sunday 8 June 2014 Chaired by Finn Tarp Out of Africa: A comparative perspective on why Africa failed to industrialize...
Fri, 6 June 2014
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Tue, 10 June 2014
Dead Sea,
Jordan
Past event
Presentation
Launch of the special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality: ‘Measuring poverty over time’
The conceptualization and measurement of poverty has been the subject of intense study for more than a century. The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 gave additional stimulus to these longstanding efforts, this time at the...
Thu, 14 June 2012
World Bank,
Washington, D.C.,
United States
Past event
Seminar
The political economy of green growth
Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER delivered a seminar on 'The Political Economy of Green Growth' as part of the TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2012 organised by the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) at Trinity College...
Fri, 23 March 2012
Dublin,
Ireland
Past event
Presentation
Nordic-Baltic multilateral development banks meeting
The opening was chaired by Ms Anne Sipiläinen, Under Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. In the session presented by UNU-WIDER Chief Economist and Deputy Director Tony Addison and Research Fellow Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, the...
Wed, 25 January 2012
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Thu, 26 January 2012
House of Estates,
Snellmaninkatu 9-11,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Aid, growth, poverty and the global context
Presentation on i) aid, growth and development: what do we know?; (ii) poverty and human development; (iii) the changing global context; and (iv) Conclusions: a post 2015 perspective. Based on UNU-WIDER's research on foreign aid (ReCom) and to...
Tue, 25 March 2014
JICA Research Institute,
Tokyo,
Japan
Past event
Seminar
Nordic Cooperation towards eradicating poverty and ensuring sustainable development for all
Nordic ministers for development cooperation to Helsinki – towards closer cooperation
Thu, 13 March 2014
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
Wed, 23 March 2016
Stockholm School of Economics, Aula,
Sveavägen 65 (entrance from Bertil Ohlins gata),
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Annual Lecture
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.
Fri, 29 September 2006
Marina Congress Center,
Katajanokanlaituri 6,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Annual Lecture
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.
Fri, 5 November 2004
Stockholm School of Economics,
Sveavägen 65,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Annual Lecture
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.
Thu, 5 September 2002
University of Copenhagen,
Nørregade 10,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event
Policy seminar
Sida Development Talks - Africa rising? Poverty and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
On 22 April 2016 UNU-WIDER visits the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to launch the new open access book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Resulting from UNU-WIDER’s project on ’Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and...
Fri, 22 April 2016
Sida,
Valhallavägen 199,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Past event
Project workshop
Transforming informal work and livelihoods — authors' workshop
Fri, 23 October 2020
Zoom,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Sam Jones presents at Inclusive Growth in Mozambique project seminar series: What it does mean to be poor?
Sam Jones, development economist and UNU-WIDER research fellow presents in a seminar on 15 August at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.
Wed, 15 August 2018
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Workshop
Course on poverty line estimation and poverty calculations
The Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme delivers a course on poverty line estimation and poverty calculation from June to August 2018 in Maputo. This course aims to equip the participants with tools to make poverty line estimation and poverty...
Fri, 1 June 2018
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Thu, 30 August 2018
Maputo,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Vincenzo Salvucci presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique 2019 seminar series
Vincenzo Salvucci, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, will present a seminar on 13 March 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The seminar is titled Vulnerabilidade às Calamidades Naturais: Avaliação do Impacto a Curto Prazo...
Wed, 13 March 2019
Faculty of Economics, Postgraduate Room, the Eduardo Mondlane University, Main Campus,
Av. Julius Nyerere nr. 3453,
Maputo,
Mozambique
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
François Bourguignon on COVID-19 and inequality
Tue, 23 February 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Olivier Bargain on intra-household allocation and individual poverty
Olivier Bargain will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 28 August 2019. Abstract – Intra-household allocation and individual poverty Welfare analyses conducted by policy practitioners around the world usually rely on equivalized or per capita...
Wed, 28 August 2019
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project
The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s
Theme: Transformation
Latin America in the 2000s witnessed an unprecedented period of growth with poverty and inequality reduction. Latin America also suffered from the economic crises in Europe and the United States from 2007/08 onwards. The questions asked in this...
Project
Frontiers of poverty analysis
Theme: 2008-09
The aim of this project is to take stock of the often overlooked options now available to researchers at the frontiers of poverty analysis and to illustrate their use in developing country contexts. The main project activity will be an international...
Project
Development in an urban world
Theme: 2008-09
In 2007 the number of urban inhabitants will surpass rural dwellers as a percentage of the total world population. By 2030 the proportion of people living in cities globally is expected to reach 61%, with almost 80% of urban dwellers living in less...
Project
Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits
Theme: 2012-13
In recent years, field experiments using randomized trials have gained increasing popularity in the field of development economics. In particular, scholars have argued strongly for their use as the best means of identifying ‘what works’ in foreign...
Policy workshop
World Income Inequality Database project presents at the OECD's DAC Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities (CoP-PI) hosts several thematic dialogues between researchers and practitioners on embedding...
Fri, 25 March 2022
Online,
United States
Past event
Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Mon, 9 May 2022
Online,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar University
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Fri, 22 April 2022
Online,
India
Past event
Project
Gender and food security
Theme: 2006-07
UNU-WIDER’s recent project ‘Hunger and Food Security’ exerted a strong attraction for academia, international organizations (FAO, WFP, and UNCTAD), civil society organizations, and the media. The first project meeting, held in Jaipur in March 2005...
Project
Personal assets from a global perspective
Theme: 2004-05
The project aims to assemble data about the distribution and composition of personal assets in developing, transition, and developed countries and to study the implications of personal asset-holding for economic development. The most important asset...
Project
Inequality and poverty in China
Theme: 2004-05
Getting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world’s most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded. China...
Project
Millennium development goals - assessing and forecasting progress
Theme: 2004-05
Achievement of the MDG goals by 2015 is an ambitious undertaking. The donor community is now mobilizing resources behind the goals, and efforts to implement the goals are now underway at national and international levels. It is inevitable that...
Project
Hunger and food security - new challenges and new opportunities
Theme: 2004-05
Millions of people remain desperately food insecure, and over a decade of agricultural-sector reform appears to have achieved little in the way of improving entitlement to food in many countries. This project will investigate why progress in...