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...

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...

Sessions will cover the following (preliminary) list of themes: - Industry and Growth: What’s New? - Deindustrialization in Africa: What Went Wrong and Why? - Breaking-in: Can Africa Enter Global Markets? - Industrial Development and Infrastructure: How Large a Constraint? - Industrial...

Climate change poses a major challenge for developing countries. Despite growing evidence to support low-carbon and climate-resilient strategies, many countries have yet to mainstream climate change within their national development plans. Bridging the gap between climate research and...

A number of countries are cited more often than others as examples of development success. These countries are believed to have policies and institutions that could be instructive to less successful countries both within their own regions, and elsewhere in the developing world. As such they...