Seminar
Fragile states: Causes, costs, and responses
Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are caught in deprivation and seemingly hopeless conditions...
19 March 2012
St Catherine's College,
Manor Road,
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Past event
Seminar
Fragile states: Causes, costs, and responses
Presenter Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, UNCTAD Chair Gordon Alexander, UNICEF Office of Research Discussant Gerárd Roland, University of California Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st...
14 March 2012
Istituto degli Innocenti ,
Piazza della Santissima,
Florence,
Italy
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Annual Lecture
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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Project meeting
Good aid in hard places: Learning from what has worked in fragile contexts
Governance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and violence...
12 December 2013
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13 December 2013
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
19 September 2013
Europaea Hall, Marina Congress Centre,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 A,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project meeting
Land Inequality, Conflict and Reform in LDCs
UNU-WIDER's Project Meeting with world-renowned experts on ‘Land Inequality, Conflict and Reform in LDCs’. This meeting is part of UNU-WIDER’s project focusing on evolution of land inequality and the role of policies concerning land rights, and...
3 January 2011
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5 January 2011
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event