In this SA-TIED Seminar Series session, Stephanie Allais of the University of the Witwatersrand presents new SA-TIED research on South Africa’s skills development system, with a focus on the Sector...
In this SA-TIED seminar, Professor Sefa Awaworyi Churchill (RMIT University) presents new research examining how temperature shocks affect earnings and income dynamics using satellite temperature d...
This SA-TIED seminar features Pierre Bachas (World Bank), who presents new research on effective corporate tax rates and minimum tax policy across 16 countries, including South Africa, at a moment ...
This video features the keynote segment of the inaugural session of the 2026 WIDER Development Conference, held in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, 18 March 2026.
Professor Eric Verhoogen of Columb...
This video features the opening segment of the inaugural session of the 2026 WIDER Development Conference, held in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, 18 March 2026.
The session opens the conference w...
This plenary session from the 2026 WIDER Development Conference examines green industrial transformation in BRICS countries and the wider Global South.
Sustained economic growth has historically b...
This plenary session from the 2026 WIDER Development Conference examines the future of global economic governance in a fragmented world order.
The international economic order is undergoing profou...
This plenary session from the 2026 WIDER Development Conference examines the role of trust in governments, institutions, and multilateral cooperation.
Trust is a critical foundation for inclusive ...
This valedictory session brings the 2026 WIDER Development Conference to a close.
Speakers reflect on the key insights emerging from the conference’s discussions on green industrialization and inc...
Peer learning sits at the heart of building effective data systems.
In Pretoria, UNU-WIDER brought together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Lesotho, and M...
The launch of SA-TIED Phase III marks the next phase of a long-standing partnership between the National Treasury of South Africa, SARS, and UNU-WIDER, with support from the European Union and the ...
This session marks the official launch of Phase III of the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme.
Speakers include:
David Masondo, Deputy Minister of Finance...
This livestream features the opening session and first policy dialogue of the SA-TIED Phase II Close-Out Conference, bringing together policymakers, researchers, and development partners to reflect...
Starting small is often underestimated. With a single dataset, one computer, and one researcher, small steps can grow into meaningful and lasting change.
Experiences from secure data labs in South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia inspired the Honduran Revenue Administration Service to create their own data lab.
Many developing countries still collect less than 15% of GDP in taxes — a level often considered insufficient to fund essential public services. At the same time, the average African country now ne...
In Zambia, opening tax data to researchers has helped generate evidence-based recommendations on revenue and policy, strengthening the government’s capacity to serve the public.
Uganda’s secure research data lab has changed how tax policy is studied, making it possible to design tax reforms that better serve citizens.
Tax administrative data already exists within governments. In 2015, South Africa became the first country in the Global South to open this data for research, creating a secure data lab to support e...