The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are low-income countries that face severe structural impediments to sustainable development. These countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have low levels of human assets. To help the LDCs address these specific challenges,...

In accordance with the latest UN guidelines we regret to inform the 2020 WIDER Development Conference has been cancelled.

The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation,...

The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research. We welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers...

We welcome submissions of full-length papers using micro and macro analyses, theoretical and empirical. Some examples of topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Factors affecting accumulation of human capital (health, education, skills) - Linkages between human capital, demography...

This conference on ‘Inequality – measurement, trends, impacts, and policies’ focuses on the latest developments in the measurement of inequality in income, wealth, and human development, drawing also on advances in measurements in the advanced economies. It will examine what we know about...

The conference brings together development researchers, practitioners, civil society actors and policy makers to rethink, debate and reframe the interlinkages between development and knowledge. The conference aims at dialogue between different methodologies and discussion on their potentialities...

UNU-WIDER invites interested participants to submit original research related to the two conference themes below. We are open to contributions that use rigorous research methods from economics, and other social sciences, and welcome papers that hold important implications for policy. - Measuring...