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Sustainable Cooperatives for Economic Expansion in Africa

Cooperatives University in Kenya Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Workshop synopsis After shaking off the chains of colonialism, African countries in their entirety adopted cooperatives as tools to implement “African socialism”. However, soon after the dawn of independence, cooperatives proved to be economically unsustainable in most of the African countries as they promoted a concept of welfarism which required heavy government financial outflows. Towards …

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Cecosesola, construyendo confianza en la diversidad

Virtual Project Virtual Project

En Cecosesola no hay directivos, gerentes o supervisores. No hay líneas de mando, o siquiera cargos fijos. Hay más de 1.300 trabajadores asociados que cooperan en igualdad de condiciones para resolver sus necesidades como comunidad: Red de Salud Popular que atiende a más de 220,000 personas al año Una red funeraria que les garantiza a …

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CCP Frankfurt conference debrief and intro to FMI research initiative & FMI

Virtual Project Virtual Project

All, Today Bazil Sansom, economist post doc research associate at Mathematics Institute at Warwick University is going to provide you with a debrief on the recent CCP conference Wed. 27. Feb. 2019 in Frankfurt by BuBa, ECB and Fed Chicago. Kiko Gerhardt Kalterherberg, FMI Research Initiative organizer will start by providing a brief intro to …

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project Series YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Law, Economics & Finance

2nd webinar: “Globalisation, sovereignty and the dark side of legitimacy”

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In the second webinar of the YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Law, Economics & Finance, professor Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Turin) will discuss some of the ideas from his book ''Dominus Mundi'': This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. …

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project Series Peer Review Project (History of Economics and Philosophy of Economics)

First 2019 round of the Peer Review Project

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The Philosophy of Economics and the History of Economic Thought Working groups invite the Young Scholars working in this area to join the first round of the Peer Review Project of 2019. Participants can join the project both as author or only as reviewers. However, it is good to have in mind that for each …

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YSI Urban Economics Meeting: Places in Times of Austerity

Jefferson Room, on the mezzanine level, in the Hotel Marriott Wardman Park Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Local government is so integral to daily life that it is often taken for granted — as are the fiscal systems that finance public services. However, in times of fiscal austerity, local governments' capability to provide services and infrastructure is put in check. On one hand, this ability grows more important every day as urbanization …

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project Series Co-op Reading Group: Everything for Everyone

Discussion with author: Nathan Schneider

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Join social.coop reading group members to discuss the exciting new book with author Nathan Schneider! Having read a lot of books about co-operatives, I found this one fresh, fun and inspiring- a testament to the awesome power of co-operatives. Because we will be hosting members from outside of YSI for this reading group session, please …

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FMI research initiative at OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium, Chicago

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, United States

INTRODUCTIONAs part of the Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) research initiative, YSI members with excellent academic background and proven research interest in FMI are attending the OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium by the Federal Reserve Bank Chicago in Chicago. FMI RESEARCH INITIATIVE STATUSFMI research initiative seeks to support research in FMI to the benefit of …

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project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

Prof. Moritz Schularick – The Great Leveraging: Credit and the Macroeconomy

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We are delighted to have Prof. Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn, INET) join us for the first of our three-part webinar series on private debt and the credit cycle. This is a webinar for students with research interests in empirical macro-finance. We will study the growth of finance and ask how and why credit cycles …

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THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

University of Ibadan Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: RETHINKING AFRICA’S ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION University of Ibadan, Nigeria 10th – 12th April 2019 The debate around Africa’s development has been driven most prominently from outside the continent, preserving a de facto colonial status, while ignoring the complexity of its context. With development economics being more recently influenced by …

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