Presentation
International Economic Association 17th World Congress
UNU-WIDER organized two sessions during the 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association. Learning to Compete – Sunday 8 June 2014 Chaired by Finn Tarp Out of Africa: A comparative perspective on why Africa failed to industrialize...
6 June 2014
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10 June 2014
Dead Sea,
Jordan
Past event
Seminar
African economic growth: Productivity, policy syndromes and the importance of institutions
Speaker Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER. Recent evidence from an exhaustive political-economy study of growth of African economies – the Growth Project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) - suggests that ‘policy...
9 October 2012
Seminar Room 3-4, Economicum,
Arkadiankatu 7,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database presented at STEG conference
On 13 January 2021, Gaaitzen de Vries, researcher at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) and UNU-WIDER, presented new research findings on industrialization patterns in developing economies at the online annual conference of the...
13 January 2021
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15 January 2021
Past event
Policy workshop
Why is South African productivity so low?
This policy workshop on 'Why is South African productivity so low?' is organized by UNU-WIDER together with the National Treasury of South Africa, and the South African Reserve Bank on 7 June 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa.
7 June 2016
South African Reserve Bank Conference Centre,
370 Helen Joseph St,
Pretoria,
South Africa
Past event
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano,
Avenida Marginal 4441,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event