WIDER Seminar Series materials

Omar McDoom | London School of Economics |  Presentation

Re-visiting the Rwandan Genocide: New Book Presentation

Sushanta Mallick | Queen Mary University of London | Audio | Presentation

Is financial inclusion benefcial for banks?

Emma Nkonoki | Fingo | Audio | Presentation

Inclusive innovation ecosystems: why we need NGOs to ensure that 'no one is left behind,' a case study from Tanzania

 Neil Ruiz | Pew Research Center | Audio | Presentation

Demographic trends and attitudes towards migration globally 

Bereket Kebede  | University of East Anglia | Audio | Presentation 

Endowment effects and gender in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation

Erwin Bulte | Wageningen University | Audio | Presentation

Participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoods: experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

Mariapia Mendola | University of Milano Bicocca | Presentation

Agricultural transformation and farmers' expectations

Fantu Cheru & Christopher Cramer | American University & SOAS | Presentation

The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian economy

Stéphane Straub | Toulouse School of Economics | Audio  

Voting corrupt politicians out of office? Evidence from a survey experiment in Paraguay

Ravi Pendakur | University of Ottawa | Audio 

The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities

Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso | University of Göttingen | Presentation

Gender gap and firm performance in developing countries

Mazhar Waseem | Manchester University | Audio |  Presentation

Pecuniary and non-pecuniary motivations for tax compliance: evidence from Pakistan

François Roubaud | IRD | Audio | Presentation

The informal economy in developing countries: measurement issues and economic challenges

Jambo Hamisi Ramadhani | UONGOZI Institute | Audio | Presentation

Enhancing socio-economic benefits of the mining industry in Tanzania: ten key priorities

Simone Bertoli | CERDI University of Auvergne | Audio | Presentation

Co-residence patterns of the individuals left behind by the migrants and their analytical implications: evidence from Mexico 

Olivier Bargain | University of Bordeaux | Audio | Presentations 

Intra-household allocation and individual poverty

Sanjay Reddy | Independent High-level Team of Advisers to ECOSOC​ | Audio

The UN’s Development Function: Time for Renewal

Charles Gore | UNU-WIDER | Presentation

Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10

Amina Ebrahim | UNU-WIDER | Presentation

Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa

Patricia Funjika | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation

Colonial Origin, Ethnicity and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Shreshti Rawat | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation

Inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications

Khoa Vu | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio |  Presentation

The causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam

Vito Peragine | University of Bari | Audio | Presentation

Measuring inequality of opportunity: recent empirical findings and some new theoretical results

Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla| University of Khartoum | Audio |  Presentation

Understanding inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan

Ritwik Banerjee | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Audio | Presentation

The link between corruption and tax evasion - an experimental investigation

Aimable Nsabimana | University of Rwanda | Audio  | Presentation

Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

Saidou Abdoulaye Sy | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio  | Presentation

Measuring energy poverty in Senegal: A new multidimensional energy poverty index focusing on fuzzy sets approach

Opeyemi Akinyemi | Covenant University | Audio  | Presentation

Green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa

Maureen Were | UNU-WIDER | Audio | Presentation 

Is Export-led Growth A Mirage? The Case of Kenya

Vegard Iversen | Natural Resource Institute | Audio | Presentation 

Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: theory and suggestive evidence from India

Sandra Halvorsen | PhD candidate at the Norwegian School of Economics | Audio |  Presentation

Factory employment and fertility decisions: Field experimental evidence from Ethiopia

James Robinson | Harris School for Public Policy | Audio | Presentation

An interpretation of African development

Margaret McMillan | Tufts University | Audio | Presentation | Video

Structural change and labor productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Michael Woolcock | World Bank | Presentation

Lant Pritchett | Harvard University | Presentation

Audio 

Building state capability: evidence, analysis, action

Dilip Mookherjee | Boston University | Audio | Presentation

Decentralized targeting of agricultural credit in West Bengal: private vs. political intermediaries,

Ashwini Deshpande | Ashoka University | Audio | Presentation

Choice, Constraints and Cultural Norms: Understanding Factors Underlying Women's Labour Force Participation in India

Costanza Biavaschi | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Audio | Presentation

Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Maurizio Bussolo | World Bank | Audio | Presentation

Towards a new social contract – taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia