Blog
How can developing countries deliver effective public financial planning?
In many less developed countries, there is little problem identifying the need for public investment in programmes aimed at improving things such as...
Blog
What determines tax revenues mobilization?
Tax revenues and political institutions placing constraints on the executive power may reinforce each other over time and this may also bring a shift...
Blog
Overcoming the challenge of illicit financial flows: Four pieces of advice for policymakers
From profit shifting to sanction evasion, illicit financial flows divert funds away from essential poverty-fighting and infrastructure programs. A...
Blog
Oslo conference turns the spotlight on sustainable development financing
by
Denise Wall
September 2023
With the deadline for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals just seven years away, there is an increasing sense of urgency over the...
Blog
Lessons for tax policy from the WIDER Development Conference in Oslo
by
Abrams M.E. Tagem
October 2023
The annual WIDER Development Conference held this year in Oslo concentrated on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM). The 2.5-day hybrid event...
Blog
How (not) to build state capability
Effective and capable states are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Such states can raise the necessary...
Blog
In the Director's chair: Reflections on my first six months as Director
My first six months as Director of UNU-WIDER have been busy, enlightening, and rewarding. We’ve launched a new work programme, with flagship projects...
Presentation
Tony Addison at the SEI and SweDev dialogue on development research
Tony Addison, UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow and Extractives for Development (E4D) – risks and opportunities project lead, joins a dialogue event The extractive industries in the developing world: dilemmas and opportunities on 19...
Tue, 19 September 2023
Online,
Sweden
Past event
Webinar
Financial Benefit Sharing in the Energy Transition
UNU-WIDER and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) host the sevent researchers’ seminar on Extractive industries: Taxation and revenues. This online seminar, themed Financial Benefit Sharing in the...
Thu, 16 November 2023
Online,
Netherlands
Past event
Presentation
Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the CERDI research seminar
UNU-WIDER Research Associate Abrams M.E. Tagem presents at the research seminar of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), on 5 December 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.He presents the WIDER Working Paper...
Tue, 5 December 2023
26 avenue Léon Blum,
Clermont-Ferrand,
France
Past event
Conference
Revving up revenue for development – the role of domestic resource mobilization
Wed, 6 September 2023
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Fri, 8 September 2023
Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel,
Holbergsgate 30, 166,
Oslo,
Norway
Past event
Webinar
Corruption and theft in the global oil and gas sector
Tue, 18 April 2023
Online,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Elisa Casi-Eberhard on mandatory disclosure regimes
World Bank's hybrid conference on global tax equity is organized on 22-23 September 2022. Elisa Casi-Eberhard, a Norwegian School of Economics Assistant Professor, gives a presentation on a WIDER Working Paper at the conference. The topic of Casi...
Thu, 22 September 2022
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Fri, 23 September 2022
Hybrid,
United States
Past event
Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Early Researchers Consortium in Accounting
The Accounting Research Groups at the UPF Barcelona School of Management (Spain), Free University of Bolzano (Italy) and University of Padua (Italy) organise the fifth edition of the Accounting Summer Camp in Barcelona on July 13-15 2022. Researcher...
Wed, 13 July 2022
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Thu, 14 July 2022
UPF-BSM,
Barcelona,
Spain
Past event
Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Ninth Annual Mannheim Taxation Conference
The ninth edition of the Annual MannheimTaxation Conference takes place in person in Mannheim, Germany on 8–9 September 2022. Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper in the...
Thu, 8 September 2022
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Fri, 9 September 2022
Mannheim,
Germany
Past event
Presentation
Research on illicit financial flows presented at the EU Tax Observatory Lunch Seminar
Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the EU Tax Observatory lunch seminar on 5 October 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and yet so far: The...
Wed, 5 October 2022
Paris School of Economics,
Paris,
France
Past event
Presentation
Research on mandatory disclosure rules presented at the University of Münster
Assistant Professor Elisa Casi-Eberhard from the Norwegian School of Economics presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper at the University of Münster's Economic Research Seminar on 14 December 2022. The topic of Casi-Eberhard's presentation is So close and...
Wed, 14 December 2022
University of Münster,
Münster,
Germany
Past event
Workshop
Workshop on illicit financial flows
UNU-WIDER together with the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH-DERG) organizes an in-person workshop on illicit financial flows (IFFs) at the University of Copenhagen on 25-26 October 2022.
Tue, 25 October 2022
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Wed, 26 October 2022
University of Copenhagen,
Øster Farimagsgade 5,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event
Project workshop
Author workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows
This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...
Wed, 22 June 2022
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Thu, 30 June 2022
Online,
Denmark
Past event
Blog
Fiscal states in developing economies: Why do they matter and where do they come from?
Modern states are complex organizations which perform a broad range of functions. They have an important role in economic and human development. The...
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 4th UN Roundtable on Extractives
On 4 February, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled "Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in Asia...
Thu, 4 February 2021
Online,
Thailand
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 5th UN Roundtable on Extractives
On 15 March, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled 'Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in the...
Mon, 15 March 2021
Online,
Lebanon
Past event
Presentation
Laura Saavedra-Lux presents at the KIEL-CEPR African Economic Development Conference
Laura Saavedra-Lux, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, presents her working paper on the connections of foreign direct investment and conflicts at the conference on African economic development (AEDC), organized by the Centre for Economic Policy...
Thu, 12 September 2024
Federal Ministry of Finance,
Berlin,
Germany
Past event
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