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Towards a Call for Problems Approach: Strengthening NGO-Academic Collaborat

The International Auditorium Koning Albert II-Laan, Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Towards a Call for Problems Approach: Strengthening NGO-Academic Collaborations Session Proposal for Change Finance Forum 6th-7th December 2018 Increasingly, academic researchers are concerned to ensure that their research will find its way out of the ivory tower and shape law and policy-making processes. Equally, many NGOs are keen to produce cutting-edge research on particular social …

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States and Market WG 2019 Planning Meeting

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We are already involved in many projects, thus we will meet just between coordinators and organizers to overview our year plan and set goals for our WG in 2019.

Innovation systems and policies: An African perspective

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Promoting innovation has become common practice across the world due to its social and economic transformative power. As innovation becomes recognised as part of the development agenda, a key challenge is to better understand innovation in a development context and how policy can support it. Nevertheless, considerations of innovation in Africa remain disconnected to some …

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Central Bank Digital Currency – Webinar Ulrich Bindseil (ECB)

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The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to welcome Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of Market Operations at the European Central Bank, to discuss "Central Bank Digital Currency". With the digitalisation of finance, Fintech, and cryptocurrencies, central banks and academics have started to wonder if central banks should not also offer a digital currency, …

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Webinar: De-dollarization and monetary policy with Prof. Ernesto Sheriff

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Dear young scholars, The Latin America Working Group invites you to the webinar "De-dollarization and monetary policy in Bolivia: the role of inflationary memory" with Prof. Ernesto Sheriff. The webinar will take place on Friday, Dec 14th, 11:00 am EST. A part of the webinar will consist on Sheriff's article (2011) "Memoria inflacionaria e histéresis …

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Feminist Economics and Social Provisioning

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Professor Zdravka Todorova (Wright State University – http://www.wright.edu/~zdravka.todorova/) is going to present the general aspects of gender studies in economics. You find some reading suggestions about the topic in this folder, but remember they are only suggestions, everyone is invited to join us regardless of being able to read it or not:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rajB7a6_f9i0hLWS52H99AuOa2DlwjpF This webinar is …

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Long Term Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis: Ten Years On

Agnes Scott College Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) ASSA Pre-Conference Workshop at the Annual Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) Atlanta, Georgia, January 3, 2019.​The global financial crisis of 2008 was a transformative event not only in the world economy, but also in the world of economic policy. Facing this apparently unprecedented crisis, …

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Developmental States in Africa: Beyond the Private Sector-State Nexus

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We invite members to discuss a proposal to host a meeting of the Africa Working Group in 2019/2020 at the Doha Graduate Institute in August/September. Please see the rough concept note below: Slowing global growth in 2018 and 2019 has called into question whether the upturn in African economic growth since 2000 is structural or …

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State and Capital in China

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Isabela Nogueira de Morais. Assistant Professor (Instituto de Economia - Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro)Coordinator LabChina (Studies in Chinese Political Economy) - http://www.ie.ufrj.br/labchina/ In the last four decades, the Asian Giant went from being a periphery economy to compete globally the first places in terms of economic wealth, geopolitical influence, technological development and militar …

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Is the Green Growth Possible?

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Last year, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) lauched the series "Is Green Growth Possible? A Debate" where economists discussed the tradeoffs between economic growth and the decarbonization challenge.https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/collections/is-green-growth-possible-a-debate The Sustainability WG invited Enno Schröder to present in this webinar his research findings with Servaas Storm, and to discuss to what extend the Green …

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Women and the informal economy with Sally Roever, WIEGO

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Women and gender minorities have overcome many obstacles within the world of work in the last decades; however, gender inequality is still the norm around the globe. While concepts such as “glass ceilings” and “gender pay gaps” are more and more popular everyday, some of the most pressing issues affecting women are little-known outside academia …

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