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WIDER Annual Lecture
The WIDER Annual Lecture is one of UNU-WIDER’s flagship events. The first lecture was given by Douglas C. North in 1997. Since then the lecture has been delivered by a prestigious line of scholars and political actors, 4 of whom are Nobel Laureates.
The lecture is open to the public and is usually delivered by an eminent scholar or policy maker who has made a significant contribution in the field of development economics. The key findings and policy recommendations from the lecture are also summarized in a publication and shared with policy-makers and practitioners in the developing world, across the UN, and in the international community more broadly.
Below you will find details and materials from the previous 26 WIDER Annual Lectures.
The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century
Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality
In the name of progress
Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
Informality – addressing the achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
The political economy of structural transformation – has democracy failed African economies?
How are people poor? – Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
Three Decades of Change in Development
Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
Egalitarian principles - the foundation for sustainable peace
The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states
New Structural Economics - From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing Countries
Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
Developing Countries in the World Economy
The climate change challenge
Global patterns of income and health
The world is not flat - inequality and injustice in our global economy
Rethinking growth strategies
Global labor standards and local freedoms
Winners and losers in two centuries of globalization
Horizontal inequality - a neglected dimension of development
Globalization and appropriate governance
Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the transatlantic consensus
More instruments and broader goals - moving toward the post-Washington consensus
The new institutional economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem