Project workshop
Domestic savings mini workshop for country case authors
This project workshop brought together the authors responsible for the country case studies of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The country studies will be included in a book volume on...
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the CeMPA General Meeting
CeMPA, Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, organized its yearly general meeting for experts working in the area of tax-benefit microsimulation on 12 May 2021. The meeting was held virtually. SOUTHMOD microsimulation models and ongoing...
12 May 2021
Online,
United Kingdom
Past event
Project workshop
Project workshop: Fiscal states – the origins and development implications
15 June 2021
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22 June 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Maria Jouste at the North East Universities Development Consortium
Maria Jouste, UNU-WIDER Research Associate, will present a research paper at the North East Universities Development Consortium on 6 November 2020. The virtual conference, hosted by Dartmouth College, will be held 6-7 November (EST). The topic of...
6 November 2020
Past event
Presentation
Maria Jouste on Tax for Development
Maria Jouste, UNU-WIDER Research Associate, will give a presentation at the Tax for Development webinar series on 17 November 2020 (CET). The webinar series is hosted by Chr. Michelsen Institute. The topic of Jouste's presentation will be 'Do tax...
17 November 2020
Past event
Project workshop
Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues
5 November 2020
Zoom,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Extractive industries: taxation and revenues II
26 May 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Workshop
First PERUMOD training and launch event
As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad del Pacífico in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes the first training and launch...
20 November 2023
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23 November 2023
Universidad del Pacífico,
Peru
Past event
Presentation
Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the CERDI research seminar
UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the research seminar of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), on 5 December 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.He presents the WIDER Working Paper...
5 December 2023
26 avenue Léon Blum,
Clermont-Ferrand,
France
Past event
Presentation
Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative East Africa follow-up meeting
Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, presents and runs a training at the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) East Africa regional follow-up technical meeting on tax expenditures in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 6-8 December 2023. The regional meeting is...
6 December 2023
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8 December 2023
Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Past event
Lecture
Stata training for Domestic savings country authors
Capacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams...
27 October 2021
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29 October 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
Workshop
Author workshop on firms and taxation using micro data from Uganda
8 February 2023
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9 February 2023
Online,
Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Findings from recent research based on Zambian administrative tax data
In collaboration with the Research and Statistics Unit at the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), UNU-WIDER organizes a dissemination workshop on two studies evaluating tax compliance in Zambia. This event allows all key stakeholders to acquaint...
1 March 2023
Lusaka,
Zambia
Past event
Webinar
Paving the way for fiscal capacity
21 March 2023
Online,
Finland
Past event
Project workshop
2023 SOUTHMOD workshop
On 5 September 2023, participants from six different time zones gather for a hybrid SOUTHMOD workshop to exchange experiences and knowledge on tax-benefit microsimulation modeling in developing countries. This is the first in-person SOUTHMOD workshop...
5 September 2023
Oslo,
Norway
Past event
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the European Conference for African Studies 2023
University of Cologne hosts the European Conference for African Studies on 31 May - 3 June 2023. The topic of this year's conference is 'African Futures'. Raphael Macha, a collaborator of UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD project in Tanzania presents a paper on...
3 June 2023
Neues Seminargebäude, Seminarraum 26,
Cologne,
Germany
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 2023 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
13 June 2023
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15 June 2023
School of Business, Economics and Law,
Vasagatan 1,
Gothenburg,
Sweden
Past event
Presentation
Enrico Nichelatti on the potential of Universal Basic Income to mitigate shocks in sub-Saharan African countries
Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FIBRIS) organises a hybrid seminar on 17 May 2023. UNU-WIDER Research Assistant Enrico Nichelatti presents his upcoming research paper The potential of Universal Basic Income to mitigate shocks in sub...
17 May 2023
Online,
Freiburg,
Germany
Past event
Workshop
COLMOD training
As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad Externado de Colombia in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes a training event on...
10 July 2023
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14 July 2023
Online,
Colombia
Past event
Presentation
SOUTHMOD work presented at an ODI seminar
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) organises a hybrid event on 29 June 2023 to present the findings of ODI’s recent work on the role of tax and transfers in addressing income inequality across countries with different income levels. The in person...
29 June 2023
Online,
London,
United Kingdom
Past event
Project workshop
Domestic savings workshop for authors
16 March 2022
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17 March 2022
Online,
Nairobi,
Kenya
Past event
Lecture
Kunal Sen on institutions and development
UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen gives a lecture to the staff of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). The topic of the lecture is Institutions and development. In his presentation Kunal Sen will discuss the role of...
18 March 2022
KIPPRA,
Bishops Road,
Nairobi,
Kenya
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...
14 December 2021
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15 December 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 16th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development
Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which takes place online on 30 June – 2 July 2021. This dialogue is part of the OECD...
30 June 2021
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2 July 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Author workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows
This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...
22 June 2022
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30 June 2022
Online,
Denmark
Past event
Webinar
Harnessing big data and ICT to boost revenues
22 November 2022
Online,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the Global Development Conference 2022
UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development programme on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) is presented at the Global Development Conference, which takes place on 2-4 November in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2 November 2022
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4 November 2022
University of Clermont-Auvergne,
23 Avenue Léon Blum,
Clermont-Ferrand,
France
Past event
Workshop
Workshop on illicit financial flows
UNU-WIDER together with the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH-DERG) organizes an in-person workshop on illicit financial flows (IFFs) at the University of Copenhagen on 25-26 October 2022.
25 October 2022
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26 October 2022
University of Copenhagen,
Øster Farimagsgade 5,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event