Presentation
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
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Sat, 22 June 2024
United Nations University – Tokyo,
5-53-70, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo,
Japan
Past event
Presentation
Group visit by American Women’s Club
‘Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, Setbacks, and New Directions’ by Danielle Resnick. In the past twenty years, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced significant strides towards becoming more democratic as a result of...
Wed, 29 February 2012
UNU-WIDER,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Workshop
Subnational governance in Ghana – does decentralization improve democratic outcomes?
UNU-WIDER researchers in The state and statebuilding in the Global South — international and local interactions project attend an authors’ workshop at the London School of Economics. ( Download programme). Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel Chachu, and...
Mon, 13 December 2021
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Tue, 14 December 2021
Online,
United Kingdom
Past event
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 1 - The New Institutional Economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem
Although a growing number of emerging democracies and other systems are turning to free market policies to spur their economic growth, many of them are finding that these policies are not always successful.
Fri, 7 March 1997
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo),
Snellmaninkatu 9-11,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual Convention
UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...
Tue, 29 March 2022
Online,
Nashville,
United States
Past event
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms
The 2003 Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University on the topic of ‘Global Labour Standards and Freedom of Choice’, and took place at Ritarihuone in Helsinki on 10 November.
Mon, 10 November 2003
Ritarihuone,
Ritarikatu 1,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Panel discussion
Economies in transition: The long-run view
Chair: Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, EBRD Speakers: Professor Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley. Dr Rania Al-Mashat, Assistant Sub-Governor and Head of Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Egypt. Professor Roland, editor of...
Tue, 19 June 2012
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
One Exchange Square,
London,
United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa on Effectiveness of International & Swedish Democracy Aid for USAID
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER will be presenting and discussing the findings of the report Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid at...
Wed, 24 March 2021
Online,
United States
Past event
Panel discussion
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa
This event will involve an in-depth analysis of how, when, and why foreign aid has either facilitated or undermined democratization in Africa. The panel discussion will be centred around the launch of the book entitled Democratic Trajectories in...
Wed, 6 November 2013
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP),
1779 Massachusetts Ave NW,
Washington, DC,
United States
Past event
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