WIDER Development Conference: Safeguarding tomorrow – innovative approaches to growth and equity

The 2025 WIDER Development Conference takes place 09–11 June 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 September 2024, 23:59 UTC+3.

UNU-WIDER seeks paper submissions for the 2025 WIDER Development Conference. Over the past two decades, social protection programmes have become a widespread policy tool to reduce poverty and food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, social safety net programmes providing cash or in-kind transfers have more than tripled since the turn of the millennium. Social protection is an important tool to achieve many SDGs, such as No Poverty, No Hunger and Reduced Inequalities.

This call for papers seeks proposals for innovative research contributions that speak to the central themes of the conference:

• Design, implementation, and financing of social protection
• T...