Enablers of Cooperatives in Sustainable Development

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The key note speaker will center on the enablers of cooperatives in sustainable development: how businesses should be re-aligning their strategies, practices, and operations so as to unlock investments and innovation in support of the government agenda of promoting activities that will promote sustainable development, overcome global problems such as extreme poverty, scarce natural resourceexploitation …

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Cooperatives in Emerging Economies

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The Co-operative African two-day workshop run co-currently with the Virtual Co-operative University of Kenya, (CUK) 4th Annual Conference at the Co-operative University of Kenya. There will be two invited presenters (seasoned scholars in co-operatives) who will also act the role of mentors. These scholars will give their overview on co-operatives in the changing world in …

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Round Table 2 – “Innovation Environments and Local Development” (PT)

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VIII Seminário de Desenvolvimento e Políticas Públicas Conhecimento, Inovação e Desenvolvimento Regional Mesa 2 “Ambientes de Inovação e Desenvolvimento Local: Clusters, Incubadoras e Parques Tecnológicos” Prof. Adriana Ferreira de Faria (CENTEV e UFV) Prof. Marco Crocco (BHTEC e CEDEPLAR/UFMG) ACESSE AQUI / ATTEND HERE Adriana Ferreira de Faria: Professora do Departamento de Engenharia de Produção …

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Resilient Cooperative Business Models

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Co-operatives are unique models as they are guided by the principles of voluntary and open membership, economic cooperation and democratic control. This means that any individual regardless of wealth and gender can participate in a co-operative. It is these principles that raise questions on the sustainability of the co-operative business model in the modern world. …

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LPFMI and the Law – DEBRIEF – CCPs for OTC Derivatives: the Foundations of the Legal and Regulatory Framework with Dan Awrey (Cornell)

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WEBINAR INFORMATIONIn June 2020, we welcomed Prof. Dan Awrey (Cornell) to the Liquidity Project Financial Market Infrastructure (LPFMI) conversation in a panel discussion on the implications of the law on CCPs for OTC derivatives with Robert Steigerwald (Chicago Fed). We have now the pleasure to further explore the legal and regulatory framework that applies to …

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LPFMI and Economic Development – Central Counter Party Clearing (CCP) Cost-Benefit Analysis for Frontier Countries with Martijn Lathouwers (World Bank and formerly LCH)

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WEBINAR INFORMATIONThe Liquidity Project Financial Market Infrastructure (or LPFMI) would like to start in this mini webinar series a conversation with Economic Development, which will encompass one webinar. This project aims to shed some lights on the connection between financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and economic growth. Martijn Lathouwers (World Bank and formerly LCH) will present …

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KEDG – 3rd Meeting

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23/Sep - Emanuele Citera: The network origins of aggregate fluctuations: a demand-side approach 13/Oct - Gustavo Pereira Serra: Household borrowing for Consumption and Investment in Human Capital: a neo-Kaleckian approach 4/Nov - Vinicius Curti Cícero: Functional distribution of income as a determinant of importing behavior: An empirical analysis 25/Nov - Guilherme Spinato Morlin: Inflation and …

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LPFMI and the Law – Uncleared margining regulation with Poseidon Retsinas (HedgeLegal)

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WEBINAR INFORMATIONAfter being narrowed in their scope and delayed in their implementation, new rules surrounding initial margin (“IM”) in uncleared OTC transactions - the “UMR Rules” - have been slowly coming into force. In this webinar, lawyer Poseidon Retsinas will describe the legal mechanics of UMR and the significance of these rules for the financial …

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Montesquieu as Dependency Theorist? Capitalism versus Commercial Society

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We are glad to announce the first event of the Webinar series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. In the opening webinar, Professor Paul Cheney will present the paper "Montesquieu as Dependency Theorist? Capitalism versus Commercial Society in the Intellectual History of Political Economy". He will explore Montesquieu not as a World-Systems theorist avant la …

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YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Adam Frost

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Adam Frost, PhD student at Harvard University, will present his work: Entrepreneurial transformation of socialist China Abstract:China’s socialist era (1957–1980) is often described as having been void of entrepreneurial activity. Generations of scholars argued that beginning with the Communist’s victory over the Nationalists in 1949 and culminating until the establishment of collective economic institutions in …

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