Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Gender and development
Tue, 4 October 2016
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Wed, 5 October 2016
This project workshop, organized by UNU-WIDER and University of Namur, brings together researchers to discuss joint work on gender and development. The workshop will be held in Helsinki on 4 – 5 October 2016.
During the workshop individuals selected through a call for papers issued in summer 2015, will present draft of the papers to the scientific committee in order to get detailed feedback.
About the project
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-quality, high-impact economic research on a set of core issues in gender and development. Read more