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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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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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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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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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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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Growth and social welfare - an interview with Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen discusses the issue of growth and social welfare. He asserts that growth is valued not for itself but as an instrument for human beings to enable them to do those things that they care about. It is also closely related to social welfare...
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Equality and growth – an interview with Amartya Sen
Using Indian historical context as an example, Amartya Sen explains the importance of equality to growth. Investment in public policies such as education and healthcare leads to economic growth because growth is dependent on the quality of human life...
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WIDER: a history - an interview with Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen recounts the genesis of the term WIDER. He explains how it was more than just the name of the institution but also stood for its outlook. It was going to take a different approach from other institutions at the time and not limit itself...
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Amartya Sen: Feminism is an issue of humanity
“I think gender inequality is not the natural human condition. But the idea that somehow women have to be in an inferior position – or not quite such dominant position – is really wholly artificial for me” says Amartya Sen. He continues by delving...
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The Distribution of Wealth: What Next?
30th Anniversary Conference - Parallel 1.1
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Trade and Development
30th Anniversary Conference - Parallel 1.2
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Conflict
30th Anniversary Conference - Parallel 1.3
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The Economics of Africa
30th Anniversary Conference - Parallel 1.4
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Poverty and inequality in Africa (a World Bank/UNDP special session)
Parallel 2.1 of tjhe 30th anniversary conference. Presenter: Kathleen Beegle, Haroon Bhorat and Andrea Cornia.
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Learning to compete / industrial policy
Parallel 2.2 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Måns Söderbom, John Rand, Carol Newman and John Page.
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Natural resources and development
Parallel 2.3 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Wisdom Akpalu, Nadia Ouedraogo and Alan Roe.
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Social protection
Parallel 2.4 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Santiago Levy and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa.
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Inequality: What next?
Parallel 3.1 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä and Finn Tarp.
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The international monetary and financial system
Parallel 3.2 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Laurence Harris, Seppo Honkapohja and José Antonio Ocampo.
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Macroeconomics for development
Parallel 3.3 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Stephen A. O'Connell, Tony Addison, Kuben Naidoo
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Making multi-disciplinarity work
Parallel 3.4 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Haroon Bhorat, Francie Lund, Danielle Resnick and Michael Woolcock.
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Aid policy and the post-2015 agenda
Parallel 5.1 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Myles Wickstead, Richard Manning and
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Urbanization and spatial inequality (IGC special session)
Parallel 5.2 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Tony Venables, Simon Franklin and Ijaz Nabi.
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Climate change and energy
Parallel 5.3 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Henry 'Jake' Jacoby, Doug Arent and Mekuria Beyene.
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Growth and poverty reduction in Africa
Parallel 5.4 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: David Stifel, Michael Grimm and Murray Leibbrandt.
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Microeconomics for development
Parallel 5.5 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Alain de Janvry, Karen Macours and Christopher Woodruff.
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Gender equality and development
Parallel 6.1 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Jean-Philippe Platteau, Louise Fox and Elizabeth Asiedu.
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Informal livelihoods (WIEGO special session)
Parallel 6.2 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Martha Chen, Imraan Valodia and Ravi Kanbur.
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Trends and prospects in global inequality
Parallel 6.3 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Francois Bourguignon, Peter Lanjouw, Murray Leibbrandt, Nora Lustig and Li Shi.
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Health
Parallel 6.5 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Yoko Akachi, Michael Borowitz and Karri Silventoinen.
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The Economics of Foreign Aid
Parallel 4.1 of the 30th Anniversary Conference. Presenters: Henrik Hansen, Sam Jones and Oliver Morrissey.
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Latin America: Employment and poverty
Parallel 4.2 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Guillermo Cruces, David Jaume and Mariana Viollaz.
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Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition post-2015
Parallel 4.3 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Sahn and Rob Vos.
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Taxation (ICTD/UNU-WIDER special session)
Parallel 4.4 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Alex Cobham, Elizabeth Gavin, Mick Moore and Jukka Pirttilä.
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World economy
Parallel 4.5 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Vladimir Popov, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Andy Sumner.
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Aid and the Social Sectors videos
How can aid to the social sectors—particularly health care and education, but also water and sanitation, and more recently social protection—be justified? These topics were discussed during the ReCom Results meeting on ‘Aid and social sectors’ in...
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Reorienting the results based agenda
In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to critical legislators and the public that tax money budgeted to foreign aid does achieve something. At the ReCom...
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Aid and the Social Sectors webcasts
Webcasts from the event 9:00-10:40 Lena Ingelstam 2:50 Finn Tarp 11:42 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa 23:53 Arnab Acharya, Zulfiqar Bhutta and PB Anand 32:00 11:00-13:00 Bob Baulch, Katharina Michaelowa and Abby Riddell 13:32 Elizabeth Kristjansson, Armando...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17
The 17th WIDER Annual Lecture was held on 19 September in Helsinki, Finland. The lecture was delivered by President and Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari who explored the role egalitarian principles can play in conflict resolution, peace building and development.
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New landscape of poverty
The global landscape of poverty has been changing quite dramatically during recent years.
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Aid creates growth and jobs
What can foreign do for economic growth and jobs? An important role of aid is to help poor countries mobilize their resources for producing goods and services, thus supporting growth.
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Foreign aid and gender equality
Over the last decade, aid donors have made strong commitments to improving the lives of women and girls.
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Foreign aid, fragility, and governance
Fragile states—which have low state capacity and often high levels of poverty—are home to one-third of the world’s poor.
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Foreign aid and environmental challenges
Foreign aid has always had a role in addressing environmental issues and in helping with natural disasters. In this animation we look at how aid works in relation to climate change.
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The Gothenburg graduates and their impact in Africa – how aid has worked
We asked Wisdom Akpalu about the Sida-funded programme, and the role its graduates are now playing in Africa.
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ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part II
At the 4 June Stockholm ReCom results meeting renowned researchers, academics and politicians from the Global South and North, as well as high profile policy makers from donor recipient countries reflected on global trends in the “greening” of aid and lessons learned in past successes and failures of development cooperation.
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ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part I
At the 4 June Stockholm ReCom results meeting renowned researchers, academics and politicians from the Global South and North, as well as high profile policy makers from donor recipient countries reflected on global trends in the “greening” of aid and lessons learned in past successes and failures of development cooperation.