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Invitation - AL16
The 16th WIDER Annual Lecture was given by Professor Lant Pritchett, currently Professor of the Practice of International Development Harvard Kennedy School of Government, in Helsinki, in September 2012, under the enticing title ‘Folk and the Formula: Pathways to Capable States’.
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WIDER Annual Lecture by Lant Pritchett
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Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
Thu, 27 September 2012
House of Nobility,
Ritarikatu 1,
Helsinki,
Finland
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Workshop
Systematic analysis of climate resilient development (SACReD)
The principal objective of the workshop was to evaluate the implications of climate change for developing countries including impacts, adaptation policies, mitigation policies, and their interactions with appropriate development strategies.
Thu, 7 October 2010
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Fri, 8 October 2010
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),
2033 K Street NW,
Washington,
United States
Past event
Project
Building African capacity for policy simulation
Theme: 1985-97
With the introduction of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments in Africa and other developing countries have been under great pressure to devise effective policies that will reduce poverty and...
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Presentation - AL16
The 2012 WIDER Annual Lecture was given by Professor Lant Pritchett. He discussed the importance of building state capability in developing countries for tackling long-term development challenges. View or download slides as pdf
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The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states
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...
Wed, 27 October 2021
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Fri, 29 October 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event
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My journey from research assistant to the World Bank and Yale: How SA-TIED transformed my career
by
Dane Brink
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