The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century

As recent projections warn that we’re off-track to reduce inequality for the 2030 deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals, the pressing need for equitable tax systems takes center stage at the 28th WIDER Annual Lecture on 4 September 2024. Esteemed economist Gabriel Zucman examines how disparities of current tax structures guarantee this inequality is persistent due to advantages enjoyed by the ultra-wealthy.

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papers and calculator on table SA-TIED Seminar Series: Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa
Thu, 11 July 2024
Online - Zoom, Pretoria, South Africa
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Julien Wolfersberger on Climate immobility in sub-Saharan Africa
Wed, 12 June 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Alexandra Hartmann on Empowerment on the move? An experiment in supporting forcibly displaced people in Greece
Tue, 4 June 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Nagesh Kumar on Manufacturing and India’s green transition: challenges, opportunities and policies
Wed, 22 May 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Bruno Martorano on Social movements and preferences for redistribution
Tue, 30 April 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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young boy in a market SA-TIED Seminar Series: Proposal for the extension, redesign, and repurposing of the SRD grant, with a focus on poverty and unemployment reduction.
Tue, 30 April 2024
Online, South Africa
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Nicole Hassoun on Measuring population health: avoiding discrimination
Thu, 11 April 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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Andrea Vaccaro on how (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states
Wed, 20 March 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Man working, Zambia, search image. Image: Jean Mandela / UNU-WIDER LDC5 Monitor – Defining its scope and uses
Thu, 7 March 2024
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Kunal Sen on Varieties of Structural Transformation – SOAS Seminar series

Kunal Sen joins the SOAS Economics Seminar Series to present insights from the book Varieties of Structural Transformation.One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural transformation, which is the movement of workers...

Thu, 29 February 2024
SOAS, University of London main building, RB01, 10 Thornhaugh St, London, United Kingdom
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Nadine Riedel on the effectiveness of countermeasures against multinational tax avoidance
Wed, 29 November 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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Gabriela Zapata Román on The motherhood effect on women's labour trajectories: preliminary results
Wed, 15 November 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
Uganda TIN registration form, calculator, currency, pen. Image: Kalungi Kabuye / UNU-WIDER Findings from recent research based on Ugandan administrative tax data
Wed, 15 November 2023
Hotel Protea by Marriott, Elgon Terrace, Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Policy seminar
Receipt from a card machine in a grocery store. Image: Imani Nsamila Improved compliance and a renewed social contract for the SDGs
Fri, 10 November 2023
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Stefan Leeffers on the effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique
Wed, 25 October 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Iván Torre on Educational mobility in Europe and Central Asia
Thu, 19 October 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Varieties of structural transformation seminar by Kunal Sen

On 27 September Kunal Sen attends the The Faculty of Economics of Thammasat University in Pranakorn, Bangkok, to deliver a seminar titled 'Varieties of structural transformation'. The presentation draws on the UNU-WIDER project exploring the old and...

Wed, 27 September 2023
Bangkok, Thailand
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Seminar
Paulo Santos presents evidence on the agricultural origins of prejudice from multiple Asian societies
Wed, 20 September 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Saumik Paul on Construction productivity and relative prosperity
Wed, 13 September 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Sefa Kwami Awaworyi Churchill on Temperature, climate change and household financial behaviour: evidence from Vietnam
Wed, 14 June 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Michael Palmer presents Can information improve the uptake of disability benefits?
Wed, 14 June 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Yusi Ouyang on Fighting poverty to promote growth
Thu, 8 June 2023
Finland
Past event
Seminar
William Ferguson on A theory of triadic power with applications to leadership, collective action, and institutional evolution
Wed, 7 June 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Kunal Sen presents on the good job challenge at IER-Hitotsubashi

On 1 June 2023, UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen attends IER-Hitotsubashi University to present in the Economic Development Workshop in the Center for Economic Institutions.

Thu, 1 June 2023 14:00
Hitotsubashi University , Kunitachi, Japan
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Yselle Flora Malah Kuete presents Does structural change benefit women? Firm-level evidence from the services sector in Cameroon
Wed, 31 May 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad on Incentivizing customers to increase VAT compliance: Evidence from Tanzania
Wed, 24 May 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Aid effectiveness in fragile states

UNU-WIDER researchers offer a seminar on aid effectiveness in fragile states to an audience of Swedish development officials and foreign officers. The seminar is organized by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

Tue, 23 May 2023
Online, Sweden
Past event
Seminar
Sonia R. Bhalotra on Job displacement, unemployment benefits and domestic violence
Wed, 10 May 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Tax and development workshop
Wed, 26 April 2023 – Thu, 27 April 2023
Kampala, Uganda
Past event
Seminar
Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos on The unequal effect of pollution exposure on labour supply across gender
Wed, 12 April 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Addressing ethnic inequality: comparative experiences, Seminar at UN DESA

Rachel M. Gisselquist speaks at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) to update experts and officials on new findings from the Addressing group-based inequalities project. The seminar on 'Addressing ethnic inequality...

Wed, 29 March 2023
Online, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Quentin Stoeffler on Economic opportunities, education and child labor: the effects of artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso
Wed, 29 March 2023
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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