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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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How do effective states emerge?
Theme: Transforming states
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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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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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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...
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Viet Nam
Theme: Transformation
This project responds to the SDG’s call for a strengthening of data collection and capacity-building in Member States. Timely and better disaggregated, country level data aids the search for an evidence-based course to realizing economic...
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World inequality
Theme: Inclusion
The purpose of this project is to advance data collection, measurement, and research regarding the development of inequality in the world. A major focus in this research area is the maintenance, updating, and development of the World Income...
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Africa's energy futures
Theme: Sustainability
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s
Theme: Transformation
Latin America in the 2000s witnessed an unprecedented period of growth with poverty and inequality reduction. Latin America also suffered from the economic crises in Europe and the United States from 2007/08 onwards. The questions asked in this...
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Macro-economic management (M-EM)
Theme: Transformation
This project explores how macroeconomics of development is evolving; what the policy priorities are as the global economy undergoes transformation (with more countries moving from low- to middle- income status); the impact of global economic...
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Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approaches
Theme: Transformation
This project uses UNU-WIDER’s high level of convening power – its ability to mobilize senior figures in the development policy debate from different paradigms – and its ability to stand aside from the fashions and pressures of the academy, to bring...
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Gender and development
Theme: Inclusion
Substantial progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment has occurred over the past four decades, but key gaps, both in opportunity and capability, persist between males and females in all countries. This project focuses on generating high...
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Africa's emerging middle-class
Theme: 2012-13
Sub-Saharan Africa currently is facing a range of demographic and socioeconomic shifts that hold important implications for both the region’s economic and political development. One of these shifts has been the emergence of a sizeable and dynamic...
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Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends: growth and poverty project (GAPP)
Theme: 2012-13
Despite decades of research and advances in data and methods, measuring poverty and reconciling this with patterns of economic growth remains a complex and contentious issue. UNU-WIDER’s Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP) re-examines Africa’s growth...
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African development - myths and realities
Theme: 2008-09
Existing research on Africa has produced a seemingly endless list of reasons why African growth and poverty reduction record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This project looks at the reasons put forward for Africa’s...
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Frontiers of poverty analysis
Theme: 2008-09
The aim of this project is to take stock of the often overlooked options now available to researchers at the frontiers of poverty analysis and to illustrate their use in developing country contexts. The main project activity will be an international...
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Development in an urban world
Theme: 2008-09
In 2007 the number of urban inhabitants will surpass rural dwellers as a percentage of the total world population. By 2030 the proportion of people living in cities globally is expected to reach 61%, with almost 80% of urban dwellers living in less...
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The Middle East, North Africa, and climate change
Theme: 2010-11
Sustaining development in developing countries has never been as complicated a task as it is today in the face of a world characterized by tremendous competition over resources that are becoming scarcer. Climate change and its impact on water...
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Country role models for development success
Theme: 2006-07
In the development literature, some countries are cited more often than others as examples of development success. These countries are believed to have policies and institutions that could be transferred, at least in part, to less successful...
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Promoting entrepreneurial capacity
Theme: 2008-09
Entrepreneurship can play an important role in structural economic change and in improving wellbeing. Governments and international institutions are investing increasing resources to promote entrepreneurship. This project aims at a greater...
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Role of elites in economic development
Theme: 2008-09
Their influence of elites in politics, government, business, and the media profoundly influences the direction of economic and social activities. In some countries, the preferences of elites are closely aligned with the national interest. Elsewhere...
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Reflections on transition - twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall
Theme: 2008-09
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was a defining moment in the transition of former socialist countries into market economies. To mark the twentieth anniversary of this historic event, UNU-WIDER is organising a two-day conference to review...
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Southern engines of global growth
Theme: 2006-07
The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s growth on smaller economies and the rest of the...
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Jubilee conference - WIDER thinking ahead
Theme: 2004-05
About 200 participants attended the conference, more than 150 of them coming from outside Finland. The conference was open to younger researchers as well as established scholars. A list of participants is available on WIDER’s website. Conferences...
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Fragility and development
Theme: 2006-07
In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more than 40...
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Unlocking human potential conference
Theme: 2004-05
Conferences: 17 September 2004 EGDI-WIDER Conference on Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors