The discussions in this webinar will revolve around the following issues: a. Digital-Informalization of Labour: Many day jobs, which were the usual employment opportunities for most people, are now being converted into gig work by modern startups (e.g. urbanclap, swiggy or uber). Covid has further entrenched such work. But given the practices of class action …
Third installment of GIC 2020 Online ConferenceInnovation:Petra Moser (NYU)Britta Glennon (UPENN) Please be sure to register. Links will only be provided via the email that you registered with one hour prior to the webinar.
In this new episode of the Webinar series on the consequences of COVID-19 in Latin America we will host professor Jeffrey Orozco Barrantes, who will discuss with us about Costa Rica's policy responses and challenges for innovation. Jeffrey Orozco Barrantes is an economist from the University of Costa Rica. Master's degree in Economic Policy with …
Innovation and spontaneous policies during the COVID19 crisis in Costa Rica Read More »
The discussions in this webinar will revolve around the following issues: How biased is efficiency as a standard for welfare?: Efficiency (acting through strong property rights, deregulation and private contracts) has been touted as the best means to increase overall welfare. But has this approach worked? How will efficiency ensure overall welfare when resources themselves …
Listen live Join us for to the concluding debate of the UNCTAD Summer School, organized in collaboration with INET’s Young Scholars Initiative! Speakers include Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Gerald Epstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst-UMass) Surbhi Kesar (Azim Premji University, YSI) Rob Davies (Ex-Minister, Trade and Industry, South Africa), Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College). Moderated by …
Fourth installment of GIC 2020 Online ConferenceGreen Innovation and Complexity: Penny Mealy (Oxford) Nicolò Barbieri (UBologna) Please be sure to r register. Links will only be provided via the email that you registered with one hour prior to the webinar.
Second meeting to discuss the informative report phase, opportunities for future collaboration, and avenues to share the informative reports.
PLEASE NOTE THE CONFERENCE IS CURRENTLY DELAYED UNTIL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER 2020 The Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics is pleased to announce a student-led conference that will feature research by PhD students (and early-career researchers) on the rapid shifts that societies are facing. Changing social issues and literal shifts …
*POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020* LSE Shifting Landscapes Conference 2020 Read More »
The goal of this webinar is ti picture the main framework of Sustainable Finance and how it impacts world economic development. We will host three speaker from the industry to represent and introduce three best practices in Sustainable Finance for Economic Development: ESG/SRI Investing, Impact Investing and Ethical Banking.
The agreement reached by EU leaders on 21st July has been hailed as EU's 'Hamiltonian moment'. After 90 hours of official negotiations and 'terrace meetings' the initial, yet seemingly irreconcilable, differences between the 'frugal' north and the covid-stricken southern economies were finally overcome so that every national leader could claim victory at home. Such intergovernmental …
-RESCHEDULED-EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergov Bargaining Read More »
The agreement reached by EU leaders on 21st July has been hailed as EU's 'Hamiltonian moment'. After 90 hours of official negotiations and 'terrace meetings' the initial, yet seemingly irreconcilable, differences between the 'frugal' north and the covid-stricken southern economies were finally overcome so that every national leader could claim victory at home. Such intergovernmental …
EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergovernmental Bargaining Read More »
In vitro diagnostics (IVD) is a segment of the health biotechnology industry for which the major players are situated in developed countries. At the same time, the contemporary landscape has compelled multinational companies to transform their business models and non-Western countries to become both new markets and places where new knowledge and technology can be …
Producing diagnostic technologies for the Brazilian healthcare system Read More »