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    Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on development

    Think WIDER – New perspectives on development webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists who present their work and discuss new perspectives to the topic of global development.

    Register to join the webinar live for your chance to ask questions and engage in the discussion! See the current list and registration links for the upcoming webinars.

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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series is back! Join us *ONLINE* for research seminars that showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. 
    In autumn 2021, the Seminar Series events take place on Wednesdays from 16:00–17:00 on Zoom.

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    Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries – Towards LDC-V

    Conference | 5 - 7 October | Helsinki, Finland 

    This conference will bring together academic community, policy-makers and practitioners to solicit new thinking on the challenges and policy recommendations for LDCs for the next decade. 

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    2021 WIDER Development Conference: COVID-19 and development – effects and new realities for the Global South

    The 2021 WIDER Development Conference will take place online during 6-8 September 2021. The three-day conference will provide a platform for sharing knowledge on the effects of the pandemic in different regions across the Global South with the aim of connecting research and policy communities around the world to discuss how to move forward.  

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    UN at 75: slow death or a new direction?

    Annual Lecture 24 | Mark Malloch-Brown 

    As the UN celebrates its 75th anniversary this WIDER Annual Lecture discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance?

    EVENT RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE 

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Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and Joseph Asunka on Afrobarometer and SDG Scorecards
30 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Brian Levy and Alan Hirsch on the challenge of economic inclusion in South Africa
2 November 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Re-visiting the Rwandan Genocide: New Book Presentation
20 October 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
Taking stock of the global land rush: few development benefits, many human and environmental risks (Land Matrix Analytical Report III)
13 October 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Presentation
Patricia Justino at 17th Annual Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) workshop

Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) organises their 17th Annual workshop on 11-12 October 2021 under the theme “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement“. UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino is the co-founder and co-...

11 October 2021 10:00 – 12 October 2021 18:15
Online, Germany
Open for registration
Conference
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries - LDC Future Forum
5 October 2021 17:00 – 7 October 2021 16:30
Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
Luis Felipe López Calva on inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
5 October 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Presentation
Patricia Justino at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition

On 29 September 2021 Patricia Justino joins a virtual roundtable ‘The Future of Civil War Studies’ at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition . 117th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition...

29 September 2021 16:00
Online, Finland
Seminar
Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation with Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal
21 September 2021 15:00 – 16:00
Online, Finland
Open for registration
Project workshop
Workshop for the @Equal project
21 September 2021 11:00 – 17:30
Online, United States
Open for registration
Seminar
Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: evidence from administrative tax records

Mazhar Waseem presents at the WIDER Seminar Series on 15 September. Abstract Using Ramadan fasting as a natural experiment, we estimate the long-run impacts of in-utero environment on labor market outcomes . We exploit administrative tax return data...

15 September 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Conference
COVID-19 and development - effects and new realities for the Global South
6 September 2021 – 8 September 2021
Online
Past event
Presentation
Miguel Nino-Zarazua and Rachel Gisselquist presenting to Finland's Development Policy Committee

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa , Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, and Rachel M. Gisselquist , Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER are presenting to the Development Policy Committee of Finland on 2 September 2021 at 14:00 (UTC+3...

2 September 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flows

This project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss the first drafts of the papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the...

1 September 2021 – 2 September 2021
Online, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Conference
Better Jobs for Development 2021

The 5th annual Jobs and Development conference takes place online 1-3 September.

1 September 2021 – 3 September 2021
Online, Warsaw
Past event
Seminar
Extractive industries – Taxation and revenues III
31 August 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
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