Think development – Think WIDER

WIDER Development Conference – Join us in Helsinki on 13-15 September 2018 for a truly unique event. Registration for the conference will open mid-August 2018.

Think development – Think WIDER

Thu, 13 September 2018 – Sat, 15 September 2018

For more than 30 years, UNU-WIDER has been associated with some of the most advanced thinking in development economics. Since the Institute’s start in 1985, UNU-WIDER has undertaken research on all the principal themes of development economics. It has created a global network of thousands of researchers, many from developing countries. Helsinki has become the hub of this network, producing knowledge of real value to policy makers and practitioners in the developing world, across the UN, and to the international community more broadly.

Beginning in 2009, UNU-WIDER embarked on what has proven to be its most ambitious work programmes yet. Poverty, inequality, economic transformation, development finance, climate change, gender, food security, and many other topics, have featured in its activities and work resulting in some 2000+ publications ranging across these areas of research focus. The overall volume of work has tripled, with activities and conferences now ongoing across the globe. The Institute’s international development conferences provide a major platform for the exchange of ideas and calls for action. It has actively promoted the work of both early career academics and senior researchers spanning the developing world.

The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation, inclusion and sustainability. It will take stock of what we have learned, look to the future of development economics, and global development more broadly, serving as a bridge to fresh UNU-WIDER initiatives, aiming to mobilize evidence and action around the 2030 SDG agenda and its goals.

Presentations and plenary videos are available on the session pages and can also be accessed via the conference programme. See selection of photos from the conference.

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Presentations are available on the session pages and can also be accessed via the conference programme.

 

Team

Conference assistants: Jacob Lorentzen, Janis Vehmaan-Kreula

Communications: Annett Victorero

 

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Thu, 13 September 2018 – Sat, 15 September 2018
Marina Congress Center (MCC), Katajanokanlaituri 6, 00160 Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 by Ernest Aryeetey

WIDER Annual Lecture 22, given by Professor Ernest Aryeetey focused on the political economy of structural transformation in Africa. His talk highlighted that although there has been significant change, with power moving from authoritarian regimes...

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    UNU-WIDER Lessons on Development videos feature on VoxEU.org

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    ‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century
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    WIDER Annual Lecture 22 - The political economy of structural transformation: has democracy failed African economies?
    Fri, 14 September 2018
    Europaea hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6A, Helsinki, Finland
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    Poverty and inequality – twins or just siblings?
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    Think development - Think WIDER

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    Republic of beliefs: A new approach to law and economics

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    Group-based inequalities

    As underscored in Goal 10 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, inequality matters – both vertical (between individuals) and horizontal (between groups). A growing body of research on horizontal inequality shows links, in particular, with...

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    Taxation, data, and development
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    Extractives for development

    Many developing countries are rich in natural resources, giving them opportunities to use their mineral wealth to achieve economic transformation and poverty reduction. Yet many fail to invest their resource rents effectively. Consequently, economies...

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    Gender equality
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    Climate change
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    Africa’s lions

    The joint UNU-WIDER, Brookings and University of Cape Town “Africa’s Lions” project, culminated in an edited book volume which aimed to define some of the key constraints facing African economies as they attempt to maintain long-run economic growth...

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    Land and property rights
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    Clean and renewable energy

    Advances in variable renewable energy technologies are resulting in structural shifts in energy systems globally. Developing countries typically feature promising endowments in renewable resources, rapidly growing demand, and a relative lack of...

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    Aid and governance

    Does foreign aid still play a role in shaping democratic trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa? Given significant economic and political developments over the past five years, this panel revisits previous UNU-WIDER research findings on aid and democracy...

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    The international monetary non-system

    This panel will discuss the reforms that are necessary to build an adequate international monetary system for the twenty-first century. This includes: A global reserve system that contributes to the stability of the global economy and is considered...

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    Aid, peace, and fragile states

    Although considerable international resources have been devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected states, results have been generally mixed. Why and how have some states transitioned successfully from...

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    Inequality in the developing giants

    Inequality is a key development challenge and ‘reducing inequality within and among countries´ is at the very core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the UN General Assembly in September 2015. Inequality has also been a recurring...

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    Social protection and aid

    Over the past two decades, Social Assistance has emerged as a new paradigm in the fight against poverty and vulnerability in the Global South. The rise of Social Assistance coincided with unprecedented changes in the economic and social structures of...

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    Asian transformations

    Asia has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation since the publication of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama half a century ago. UNU-WIDER has undertaken a study, Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations, which analyses the...

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    Africa's youth

    Creating enough jobs for young people is a priority for many governments, particularly in Africa, where population growth is fastest. The region is experiencing rapid urbanization, but without the industrialization or decline in rural populations...

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