2018 Nordic conference on development economics
Academic excellence
Addressing group-based inequalities
Africa's emerging middle-class
Africa's energy futures
African development - myths and realities
Asian transformations - an inquiry into the development of nations
Building state capability through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data
Capital flows to developing countries since the Asian crisis - how to manage their volatility?
Clientelist politics and economic development – theories, perspectives and new directions
Conference on aid - principles, policies and performance
Conference on inclusive growth in Africa - measurement, causes, and consequences
Conference on inequality - measurement, trends, impacts, and policies
Conference on inequality, poverty and human well-being
Conference on migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy
Conference on responding to crises
Conference on sharing global prosperity
Conference on transforming economies – for better jobs
Country role models for development success
Debt relief conference
Decentralization and urban service delivery - implications for foreign aid
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows
Development aid - a fresh look
Development in an urban world
Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approaches
Development problems in natural resource-based growth models
Disadvantaged groups and social mobility
Discrimination and affirmative action - what have we learnt so far?
Domestic revenue mobilization (DRM)
DUCC - development under climate change
Economic reforms and stabilization policies in socialist countries
Economic shocks, social stress and the demographic impact
Effects of Swedish and international democracy support
EMU and its impact on Europe and the developing countries
Environment and climate change
ETD - Economic Transformation Database
Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits
Extractives for development (E4D)
Extractives for Development (E4D) – risks and opportunities
Falling inequality in Latin America – evidence from the last decade and prospects for the future
Financial openness
Financial sector development for growth and poverty reduction
Firm/industry level analysis in South Africa
Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa
Fragility and development
Frontiers of poverty analysis
Gender and development
Gender and food security
Gender equality
Global trends in inequality and poverty
Globalization and the obstacles to the successful integration of small vulnerable economies
Globalization, finance and growth
Governance and fragility
GRD – Government Revenue Dataset
Growth and employment
Growth and poverty conference
Growth, external sector and role of non-traditional exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Health inequalities and development
How do effective states emerge?
Hunger and food security - new challenges and new opportunities
Impact of globalization on the world's poor
Impact of liberalization on key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity
Income distribution and social structure during the transition
Industries without smokestacks
Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust
Inequality and poverty in China
Inequality in the giants
Information technology - growth and employment
Information technology and global economic development
Innovative sources for development finance
Institutional capabilities, reform ownership and development in SSA
Institutional legacies of violent conflict
Institutions for economic development - theory, history and contemporary experiences
Institutions, group behaviour and development
Insurance against poverty
International mobility of talent
Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa
Jubilee conference - WIDER thinking ahead
Land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs
Learning to compete (L2C): accelerating industrial development in Africa
Long-term development in the CFA-zone countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
Macro-economic management (M-EM)
Micro-simulation of tax benefit reforms in russia
Millennium development goals - assessing and forecasting progress
Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Africa
New approaches to measuring poverty and vulnerability
New directions in development economics
New fiscal policies for growth and poverty reduction
New models of provision and financing of public goods
New roles and functions for the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions
Personal assets from a global perspective
Post-2015 development agenda
Poverty, income distribution and well-being during the transition
Promoting entrepreneurial capacity
Property rights regimes, microeconomic incentives, and development
Prospects for Africa's youth
ReCom - research and communication on foreign aid
Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends: growth and poverty project (GAPP)
Reconstruction in conflict and post-conflict societies
Reflections on transition - twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall
Refugees, international migration and poverty
Regional growth and development in Southern Africa
Rising income inequality and poverty reduction - are they compatible?
Role of elites in economic development
Short-term capital movements and balance of payments crises
Social development indicators - measuring human well-being
Social mobility in the Global South – concepts, measures, and determinants
Social sectors
South-South development cooperation
Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)
Southern engines of global growth
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2
SOUTHMOD – simulating tax and benefit policies for development
Spatial disparities in human development
Stabilization and adjustment policies and programmes
Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Viet Nam
Structural transformation — old and new paths to economic development
Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs
Tax policy reform in developing countries
The changing nature of work and inequality
The developer’s dilemma – structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth
The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it?
The economics and politics of taxation and social protection
The evolving new market economies in Europe and in Asia
The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s
The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance @EQUAL
The impact of privatization and regulation of utilities and social services in Latin America
The impact of the WTO agreement on low income countries
The Middle East, North Africa, and climate change
The political economy of clean energy transitions
The political economy of food price policy
The political economy of social protection systems
The politics of group-based inequalities - measurement, implications, and possibilities for change
The practice of industrial policy - lessons for Africa
The small and medium enterprise (SME) survey
The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions
The sustainability of development financing
The wave of emergencies of the last decade - causes, extent, predictability and response
Towards inclusive development in Myanmar
Transformation of centrally planned economies - the lessons for developing countries
Transforming informal work and livelihoods
Transition from below - the role of the new private sector
Transition strategies, alternatives and outcomes
Underdevelopment, transition & reconstruction (UTR) in SSA
Understanding the African lions - growth traps and opportunities in six dominant African economies
Unlocking human potential conference
UNU-WIDER Summer School
UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy research
Why some countries avoid conflicts while others fail
WIDER Development Conferences
WIID – World Income Inequality Database
Women's work – routes to economic and social empowerment
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
World inequality
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