• Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?

    WIDER Annual Lecture 25 | Bina Agarwal

    Have changes in the law giving legal equity in property improved women’s situation in practice? Have they closed the gender gap in actual land ownership and trumped restrictive social norms and customs? If not, is there a way forward?  

    Find out in the Annual Lecture | Online | 9 December | 16:00 (UCT+2)

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

    The 2021 WIDER Development Conference privided 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.  

    Session videos now available. More coming soon.

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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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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. Rachel Gisselquist, Daniel Chachu, and Michael Danquah...

13 December 2021 11:00 – 14 December 2021 19:00
Online, United Kingdom
Annual Lecture
Photo: United Nations Development Programme WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
9 December 2021 16:00 – 17:30
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Seminar
Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues IV

A fourth research seminar on extractives and domestic revenue mobilisation titled Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues takes place on 9 December 2021 at 3pm Helsinki time (UTC +2). The online event is hosted jointly by UNU-WIDER and the...

9 December 2021 15:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series The Effects of Political Reservations on Credit Access and Borrowing Composition - Evidence from India
8 December 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Open for registration
Workshop
Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward Fairer

The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite...

3 December 2021
Online, Bangkok, Thailand
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Lecture
Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and Policy

Kunal Sen gives a keynote address at the Annual Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Conference on Development (ABCD) 2021. The keynote address, on the topic of 'Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Pathways for Research and...

3 December 2021
Lakeshore Hotel, House no. 46 Gulshan 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Panel discussion
Photo by Rohan Reddy / Unsplash. Développer les États fiscaux en Afrique
2 December 2021
Virtuelle, France
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Panel discussion
Photo by Rohan Reddy / Unsplash. Developing Fiscal States in Africa
2 December 2021
Online, France
Past event
Project workshop
COVID-19 impact and policy response across Indian States

The researchers under this component of The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions project meet to discuss ongoing research on 'COVID-19 and the state —comparative experiences in the Global...

2 December 2021 – 3 December 2021
Online, Finland
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Workshop
New realities and challenges for development brought by COVID-19
1 December 2021
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, 00160, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and Joseph Asunka on Afrobarometer and SDG Scorecards
30 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Petros Sekeris on theoretical foundation of the modernization hypothesis
24 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in Tanzania

The virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in...

22 November 2021
online, South Africa
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Project workshop
COVID-19 and the State —comparative experiences in the Global South
22 November 2021 – 23 November 2021
Online, Finland
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Presentation
Growth 2.0: The good jobs challenge in developing countries

On 18 November Kunal Sen joins the 4th webinar of the evidence-based policy and action roundtable series by NIRDPR. The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj hosts the event online with Kunal Sen presenting Growth 2.0: the good...

18 November 2021
Online, India
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Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Alexander Pick on from protest to progress? Why addressing global discontent is essential to building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic
17 November 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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