The world at crossroads – securing the future generations

The WIDER Development Conference on securing the future generations is 14–16 May 2024, in Maputo, Mozambique.

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Andrea Vaccaro on how (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states

Andrea Vaccaro presents at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 March 2024. According to the prevailing paradigm in international development policy, well-functioning state institutions play a crucial role in facilitating effective international aid. Despite a significant increase in the number of fragile countries in recent years, there has been however limited progress in understanding how aid can be made more effective in these contexts. Our study argues that one of the main obstacles to this progress lies in the conceptualization and measurement of state fragility.

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Global governance and sustainable development: revitalizing research to support multilateral solutions

UNU-WIDER is represented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations (ACUNS) by Rachel M. Gisselquist, where she will share research findings on addressing gender and group-based inequalities and multilateral efforts to...

Thu, 20 June 2024 – Sat, 22 June 2024
United Nations University – Tokyo, 5-53-70, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Presentation
Assessing the macroeconomic impact of power outages in South Africa with Richard Kima

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, Richard Kima presents his work-in-progress Working Paper titled ‘Estimating the Macroeconomic Costs of Power Outages in South Africa at the South African Reserve Bank Research’ Seminar on April 11, 2024, and at the...

Mon, 6 May 2024
Online, 238 Mazisi Kunene Rd, Glenwood, 4041, Durban, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Presentation of SA-TIED Working Paper on Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

Carol Newman, co-academic lead for SA-TIED's Workstream 1 on Enterprise development for job creation and growth, will present an SA-TIED Working Paper titled "Worker mobility and productivity spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective" at the...

Fri, 12 April 2024
Newman Building (NTh 1), University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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IIPF 2023 conference search image. Image: Solotravelgoals / Unsplash UNU-WIDER at IIPF Conference 2023
Mon, 14 August 2023 – Wed, 16 August 2023
Utah State University, Logan, United States
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UNU-WIDER at the 2023 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
Tue, 13 June 2023 – Thu, 15 June 2023
School of Business, Economics and Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg, Sweden
Past event
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UNU-WIDER shares research results at Aarhus University workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development

UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist presents at the workshop on Inequality, Democracy, and Development organized by the Aarhus University Department of Political Science. Her presentation is of UNU-WIDER's new Affirmative Action...

Thu, 25 May 2023 – Fri, 26 May 2023
Aarhus University Department of Political Science, Nordre Ringgade 1, Aarhus, Denmark
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Workshop
The measurement and elimination of global poverty and inequalities

UNU-WIDER is represented at the Workshop on promoting and protecting economic, social, and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic 6–8 February by senior research fellow Rachel M...

Tue, 7 February 2023
Tempus, Palais de Nations, Geneva. Online, Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Project workshop
SA-TIED technical workshop on the strengths and limitations of long-term structural models
Mon, 28 November 2022
Development Bank of South Africa Head Office in Midrand, 1258 Lever Rd, Headway Hill, Midrand, South Africa
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

Tony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development, which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD Strategy...

Mon, 27 June 2022 – Tue, 28 June 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Addressing group-based inequalities work in progress workshop

The UNU-WIDER project Addressing group-based inequalities holds a virtual workshop to discuss research on 'Experiences of Reform', the component of the project which offers a comparative assessment of worldwide efforts to reduce group-based...

Wed, 15 December 2021
Online, Finland
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Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
Tue, 2 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Workshop
Training on secure data and metadata management

SA-TIED held a 4-day online course on secure data and metadata management. The online course was designed for data managers at data centres responsible for restricted-access data in government agencies, universities, and research institutions –...

Mon, 2 August 2021 – Thu, 5 August 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Workshop
Training on data analysis using R

SA-TIED held a 3-day online course on introduction to data analysis using R. The aim of the course was to build the capacity of South African officials to manage and use economic data to carry out policy-relevant research in their day-to-day work for...

Mon, 21 June 2021 – Wed, 23 June 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Panel discussion
Rachel Gisselquist speaks at panel on ‘Human insecurity as a threat to human development’ at the UNDP Virtual Human Development Symposium

The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Office of the Human Development Report will host a virtual symposium over four days from 8-11 June on ‘A New Generation of Human Security’. Through a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions...

Thu, 10 June 2021
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Presentation
Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea presented at Umea University

Dr Klarizze Puzon will present preliminary findings from a forthcoming WIDER working paper on 'Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea' at a seminar organized by the Umea University School of Business and...

Wed, 2 June 2021
Umea University School of Business and Economics, Sweden
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Seminar
Who is being left behind? Closing the horizontal inequality gap

On Monday 17 May Rachel Gisselquist will join the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Seminar Series as discussant in their event on closing the horizontal inequality gap. Find more UNU-WIDER research on horizontal ineqality here...

Mon, 17 May 2021
Online, United Kingdom
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Presentation
Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea presented at PCED

Dr. Klarizze Puzon will present preliminary findings from a forthcoming working paper on 'Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea' to an audience at the Philippines Center for Economic Development and the...

Thu, 15 April 2021
University of the Philippines Department of Economics, Philippines
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Rachel Gisselquist speaks at the International Studies Association Annual Conference

Rachel M. Gisselquist will present in two sessions at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference held online. The first session will share new research with Andrea Vaccaro from the State and statebuilding in the Global South –...

Thu, 8 April 2021
Online, United States
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Presentation
Rachel Gisselquist will speak at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward'

Rachel Gisselquist has been invited to speak on a panel at 'Leave no one behind: moving the agenda forward', an online event hosted by the Overseas Development Institute. Register for the event through ODI here. Details Chair Gonzalo Hernández Licona...

Thu, 21 January 2021
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Seminar
Rod Crompton and Heinrich Bohlmann on Petrol Price Regulation
Tue, 19 January 2021
Online, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 2nd UN Roundtable on Extractives

On 9 December, 2020, 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...

Wed, 9 December 2020
Online, Chile
Past event
Seminar
Serena Merrino on wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa
Wed, 2 December 2020
Online, South Africa
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Seminar
Neryvia Pillay Bell and Harry Kemp on the elasticity of taxable income, new data and estimates for South Africa.
Tue, 17 November 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 1st UN Roundtable on Extractives

On 30 October, 2020, 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 as an Engine for Sustainable Development: The Case of...

Fri, 30 October 2020
Past event
Policy workshop
SA-TIED workshop: Tax revenue mobilization in South Africa

Following the success of the August seminar on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa, SA-TIED hosted a workshop to discuss the issue further between programme stakeholders including staff from the South African...

Wed, 7 October 2020
Online,
Past event
Seminar
Anthony Black and Reena das Nair present on agro-processing and inclusive agricultural value chains
Tue, 22 September 2020
South Africa
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Seminar
Estian Calitz and Ada Jansen present on tax depreciation allowances and tax revenue mobilization in South Africa
Wed, 26 August 2020
South Africa
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Seminar
Bjørn Bo Sørensen presents online seminar on how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exports
Thu, 13 August 2020
South Africa
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Workshop
Online introduction to SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model
Wed, 22 July 2020 – Mon, 31 August 2020
Past event
Policy seminar
Political economy of ethnic inequalities and exclusion: Implications for development policy

The Chief Economist Team at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will host a policy seminar with UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist as a part of the SIDA Evidence for Action Seminar Series. The seminar...

Thu, 6 February 2020
SIDA headquarters, Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Sweden
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Panel discussion
Launch of the UNDP Human Development Report 2019
Fri, 13 December 2019
Think Corner / Tiedekulma, Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Seminar
Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities

Ravi Pendakur will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 8 November 2019. Abstract - The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities In Canada, modern agreements allow Indigenous groups to govern their internal...

Fri, 8 November 2019
Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room, Katajanokanlaituri 6 , Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Policy workshop
Policy dialogues — Fiscal planning, effective revenue mobilization, and the role of collaborative research in policy evaluation
Thu, 7 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Project workshop
Public revenue mobilization for inclusive development — Work in progress meeting
Wed, 6 November 2019
Protea Hotel, Loftus Park , 416 Kirkness Street, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Workshop
UNU-WIDER and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs workshop on inequality

On 6 May 2019, UNU-WIDER will partner with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) in organizing a workshop on inequality. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss some of the lessons learned in...

Mon, 6 May 2019
United Nations Headquarters, 46th St & 1st Ave, New York, United States
Past event
Seminar
Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequality

UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will look at...

Tue, 2 April 2019 – Wed, 3 April 2019
International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland
Past event
Seminar
Public Forum on extractive industry and development

The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum on 26 March 2019 on the topic of Extractive Industry and Development. The Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison will give a presentation based on a major...

Tue, 26 March 2019
Complexo Pedagógico, Room 1501, Main Campus, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Presentation
SA-TIED Young Scholars poster session
Thu, 31 January 2019
The Sheraton Pretoria Hotel, 643 Corner, Stanza Bopape St, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Results meeting
Towards an inclusive economy — How do we support job creation and reduce inequalities in South Africa?
Thu, 31 January 2019
The Sheraton Pretoria Hotel, 643 Corner, Stanza Bopape St, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison presents the extractives book at the OECD
Thu, 13 December 2018
OECD, Paris, France
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
Mon, 26 November 2018
Southern Sun Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Presentation
Extractives in development – Tony Addison addresses UN DESA

Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is giving a presentation to the staff of UN DESA, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in New York on 19 November. The presentation shares findings from the UNU...

Mon, 19 November 2018
UN DESA, New York, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe present at the World Bank
Fri, 16 November 2018
World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Presentation
The future of extractive industries – Tony Addison and Alan Roe present to World Bank 1818 Society

Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, and UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Alan Roe will visit the World Bank in Washington, DC on 15 November. They will present to the World Bank 1818 society, the World Bank...

Thu, 15 November 2018
World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
Workshop
Research that matters - stakeholder workshop
Thu, 15 November 2018
Protea Hotel, 1141 Burnett Street, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe promote new book on extractives at the IMF
Wed, 14 November 2018
International Monetary Fund (IMF) , Washington, DC, United States
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Presentation
Extractive Industries presentation at New York’s Natural Resource Governance Institute

On Tuesday 13 November Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is giving a presentation at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in New York, addressing the NRGI staff. The presentation is linked to a new UNU-WIDER...

Tue, 13 November 2018
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) , New York, United States
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Presentation
Tony Addison talks in Oslo at a conference on fragility, taxation, and state-building

On 8 November Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison, is presenting in Oslo in a conference on The New Politics of Development: Fragility, Taxation and State-building. Addison will be chairing a session on taxation and state...

Thu, 8 November 2018
Forskningsparken, Oslo, Norway
Past event
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