How to get inclusive growth started in fragile contexts?

UNU-WIDER panel discussion and guidebook launch (online)

 

Date: Wednesday 9 June
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (UCT+3)
Register: https://go.unu.edu/eZLZR

 

Fragile and conflict-affected states experience volatile economic growth, with significant consequences for human welfare. Fragile states tend to grow in booms and busts, with little correlation with institutional quality or state capacity. Economic growth, if it is sustained and inclusive, can lead a country out of fragility.

 

On 9 June 2021, UNU-WIDER will organize a panel discussion on the topic How to get inclusive growth started in fragile contexts? The event will mark the launch of a new UNU-WIDER policy guidebook Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states (published in June 2021). The guidebook is aimed at practitioners to deepen their understanding on how to incorporate political economy insights to understanding and intervening in fragile contexts.

 

Programme

16:00-16:05

Opening remarks - Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER

16:05 - 16:20 

Presentation of Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states - framework and policy guidebook - Eric Werker, Simon Fraser University / UNU-WIDER

16.20 - 17.25

Panel discussion followed by Q&A  - chaired by Patricia Justino, UNU-WIDER

  • Adnan Khan, London School of Economics (LSE)
  • Aloysius Uche Ordu, Brookings
  • Anke Hoeffler, University of Konstanz
  • Franck Bousquet, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Micol Martini -  UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

17.25 - 17.30

Closing remarks - Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER

 

 

See more information and register for the online event here. 

 

For more details please contact nyyssonen@wider.unu.edu