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Keynote: Thinking about tax administration - Public economics for development conference
Michael Keen Video of Public economics for development conference - Keynote: Thinking about tax administration
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Keynote: Financing Africa’s infrastructure gap - Public economics for development conference
John Page Video of Public economics for development conference - Keynote: Financing Africa’s infrastructure gap
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SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation - Public economics for development
Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: evidence from a behavioral microsimulation model for Ghana Pia Rattenhuber Video of Public economics for development conference - SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation 1...
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Employment and labour income - Public economics for development conference
Learning dynamics in tax bunching at the kink: evidence from Ecuador Albrecht Bohne Video of Public economics for development conference - Employment and labour income 1/3 Do public employment services improve employment outcomes? Evidence from...
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Using revenue authorities’ administrative data for research purposes
Using revenue administrative data for research: practical experiences and research in the Ugandan context Ronald Waiswa Video of Public economics for development conference - Revenue authorities’ administrative data 1/1
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Taxation: The data and research agenda - Public econimics for development
Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: the ICTD-UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset 2017 Kyle McNabb Video of Public economics for development conference - Taxation: The data and research agenda 1/2 Taxation and development Tony...
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Multinationals - Public economics for development conference
The geography of NGO activism against multinational corporations Pamina Koenig Video of Public economics for development conference - Multinationals 1/3 Estimating the scale of corporate profit shifting: tax revenue losses related to foreign direct...
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GRD – Government Revenue Dataset
Theme: Transforming societies
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2018 Nordic conference on development economics
Theme: 2018-19
The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research.
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Webcast - AL21
The WIDER Annual Lecture by Sabina Alkire was streamed live on 24 October 2017 from Helsinki. The stream can also be accessed from our YouTube channel as well as Facebook. Video of WIDER Annual Lecture 21 by Professor Sabina Alkire
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Webcast - AL20
View the WIDER Annual Lecture by Martin Ravallion on Direct interventions against poverty in poor places.
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Addressing group-based inequalities
Theme: Transforming societies
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How do effective states emerge?
Theme: Transforming states
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Webcast - WIDER Annual Lecture 22
The political economy of structural transformation - has democracy failed African economies? by Ernest Aryeetey The lecture will be live streamied on Friday 14 September at approximately 16:40. The stream can also be accessed from our YouTube channel...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 by Ernest Aryeetey
WIDER Annual Lecture 22, given by Professor Ernest Aryeetey focused on the political economy of structural transformation in Africa. His talk highlighted that although there has been significant change, with power moving from authoritarian regimes...
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ETD - Economic Transformation Database
Theme: Transforming economies
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Conference on migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy
Theme: 2016-17
Migration and mobility are key facets of our increasingly globalized world, posing challenges but also offering opportunities. For migrants, this may include economic and social mobility, as well as improved physical security and an escape from...
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Webcast: Transforming economies – for better jobs
UNU-WIDER in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize a three-day conference on transforming economies in Bangkok, Thailand, on 11-13 September 2019. See the full programme here...
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Conference on transforming economies – for better jobs
Theme: 2018-19
The creation of productive jobs for both men and women are essential preconditions for the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on decent work and gender equality. The conference engages current debates around the future of work in the...
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Webcast - WIDER Annual Lecture 23
Informality – addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin America The lecture will be live streamed on Wednesday 30 October at approximately 18:00 (GMT+1). The stream can also be accessed from our YouTube channel as well as Facebook...
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WIDER Annual Lecture by Ronald Findlay
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History.
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WIDER Annual Lecture by Antonio Ocampo
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture.
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WIDER Annual Lecture by Justin Yifu Lin
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on New Structural Economics.
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WIDER Annual Lecture by President Martti Ahtisaari
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on Egalitarian Principles.
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WIDER Annual Lecture by C. Peter Timmer
View the WIDER Annual Lecture on Managing structural transformation post-2015.
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Inequality in the giants
Theme: Inclusion
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New models of provision and financing of public goods
Theme: 1985-97
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Economic shocks, social stress and the demographic impact
Theme: 1985-97
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Economic reforms and stabilization policies in socialist countries
Theme: 1985-97
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WIDER Development Conferences
Theme: 1985-97
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Poverty, income distribution and well-being during the transition
Theme: 1998-99
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Globalization, finance and growth
Theme: 1985-97
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Impact of liberalization on key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Theme: 1985-97
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Disadvantaged groups and social mobility
Theme: Inclusion
This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2) to...
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Conference on inequality - measurement, trends, impacts, and policies
Theme: 2014-15
Many low- and middle-income countries are achieving good rates of economic growth, but high inequality remains a priority concern. Some countries meanwhile have low growth, high inequality, and pervasive poverty―often linked to their fragility. There...
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Conference on inclusive growth in Africa - measurement, causes, and consequences
Theme: 2012-13
apid and sustained poverty reduction requires ‘inclusive growth’ that allows people to contribute to and benefit from the development process. Africa’s economic performance has improved considerably since the 1980s and early 1990s. Nevertheless, many...