²ÝÁñÊÓƵ research provides guidance for navigating the changing geo-economic landscape while more effectively monitoring and evaluating economic progress and its social impacts. Our work in Africa, for example, is helping establish robust information systems to monitor and evaluate economic progress and its social impacts, thereby helping planners to transform skewed development into opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.
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Advancing Sustainable Development: An Impactful Visit by ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Rector
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, the esteemed Rector of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, visited the vibrant nation of Namibia accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Dr Michael Baldock.
Seminar
Nexus Seminar Series N.69 ¨C Why African Entrepreneurs are Global Leaders of Innovation for Sustainable Development, and what we can learn from them?
This talk discusses of African entrepreneurs in the off-grid energy sector and the types of complex business model innovations they have produced.
News
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-WIDER Launches new World Income Inequality Database Explorer
The World Income Inequality Database (WIID), hosted and maintained by ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-WIDER for more than 20 years, is now accessible via a new WIID Explorer.
Seminar
The Direction of Innovation: Insights from the World Intellectual Property Report 2022
HYBRID: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-MERIT will host a research seminar with Dr. Intan Hamdan-Livramento of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Conference
Revving Up Revenue for Development ¨C The Role of Domestic Resource Mobilization
OSLO: The WIDER Development Conference on the role of domestic revenue mobilization in development takes place in during 6-8 September, 2023.
Training
Second UGAMOD Retreat
KAMPALA: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-WIDER will host a training event on UGAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Uganda, as a five-day research retreat.
Workshop
Bunching Estimators in Applied Economics Research
HELSINKI: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-WIDER will host an in-person workshop on bunching methods with Prof. Mazhar Wassem of Manchester University.
Conference
SOUTHMOD presentation at the LOTTE-Skatt conference
OSLO: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-WIDER Research Associate Jesse Lastunen will give a presentation at the conference, Celebrating tax-benefit modeling: 50 years with LOTTE.