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    How is COVID-19 changing development? 

    The new webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists to present new research on the implications they foresee of COVID-19 for global development efforts and the economic and social impacts for the Global South. 

    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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    Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Recordings from the two day online conference convened by UNU-WIDER on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Africa are now available.

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

    Conference | 30 August - 1 September 2021 | 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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    WIDER Seminar Series

    The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. The weekly sessions held in Helsinki are open to local and visiting researchers, policy makers, and others working on development topics.

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a health worker, in action at the Mpilo Central Hospita - KB Mpofu / ILO COVID-19 and development - effects and new realities for the Global South
6 September 2021 09:00 – 8 September 2021 19:00
Online
Conference
Bangladesh © World Bank Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries - LDC Future Forum
30 August 2021 09:00 – 1 September 2021 17:00
Seminar
The keynote address at the IRSA 16th Annual Conference — Kunal Sen

Kunal Sen has been invited to give the Keynote Address at this year's Indonesian Regional Science Association's (IRSA) Annual Conference on 12 July. Professor Sen will speak on the main lessons from UNU-WIDER's project on ' The...

12 July 2021 11:30 – 13 July 2021 12:30
Online, Indonesia
Open for registration
Presentation
Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea presented at Umea University

Dr. Klarizze Puzon will present preliminary findings from a forthcoming WIDER working paper on 'Regional identity and intergenerational resource conflict — Evidence from Guinea' at a seminar organized by the Umea University School of...

2 June 2021 16:00 – 18:00
Umea University School of Business and Economics, Sweden
Seminar
Photo by Alex Sanchez on Unsplash Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues II
26 May 2021 15:30
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the IAB seminar series

The Institute for Employment Research ( IAB ) is hosting an online seminar series " Corona - leveler or amplifier of social and economic inequality? ". The weekly seminar series aims to bring together empirically rigorous contributions...

19 May 2021 12:00
Online, Nuremberg, Germany
Open for registration
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Arkebe Oqubay on the economic implications of COVID-19 crisis for developing countries
18 May 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Online, Helsinki
Open for registration
Project workshop
Tax and development workshop

The Tax and Development workshop will bring together researchers, tax experts and practitioners to exchange experiences on using administrative tax data in their respective countries for research purposes. The event will be attended by 40 experts...

11 May 2021 10:30 – 13:30
Online, Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
SA-TIED seminar on pension-related tax expenditures

On 03 May the SA-TIED programme will host an online seminar on pension-related tax expenditures. The presentation will be given by Agustin Redonda and Chris Axelson under the SA-TIED project work stream on Public revenue for inclusive development ...

3 May 2021
Online, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Tillman Hönig presents at the European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

Tillman Hönig , Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting his ongong research The Legacy of Conflict: Aggregate Evidence from Sierra Leone at the 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association on 30 April 2021, 2pm CEST. His...

30 April 2021
Online, Denmark
Past event
Seminar
WIDER-Webinar-image from UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19 Bruno Martorano on protests and social mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic
27 April 2021
Online, Helsinki
Past event
Project meeting
Cash Plus work in progress meeting

UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation team, in collaboration with the senior partners and ILO, is involved in assessing the impact of the social protection programmes in Zambia. This event gathered personnel from ministries in Zambia...

26 April 2021
Online, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Workshop
Fourth training round on ECUAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador
26 April 2021 – 30 April 2021
Online, Quito, Ecuador
Past event
Project workshop
Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash 3rd Annual workshop: Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust
22 April 2021 – 23 April 2021
Online, Maputo, Mozambique
Past event
Seminar
Seminar with the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on the labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns

Simone Schotte presented the recently published WIDER Working Paper on The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Eevidence from Ghana for the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics seminar series. The research, part of the project on...

20 April 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Policy seminar
SA-TIED Dialogues - Research into Policy SA-TIED policy dialogue – Tax and benefit responses to COVID-19 in South Africa
19 April 2021
Online, South Africa
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