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Shaping the Future of Urban Research

Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC 9th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

The Urban Affairs Association is dedicated to creating interdisciplinary spaces for engaging in intellectual and practical discussions about urban life. Through theoretical, empirical, and action-oriented research, the UAA fosters diverse activities to understand and shape a more just and equitable urban world. The UAA 50th Annual conference will provide opportunities to assess urban affairs as …

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project Series Blurred frontiers b/w states and markets for pharmaceutical technologies

Patent office governance in response to patent extension strategies

Virtual Project Virtual Project

One important field in the literature on pharmaceutical patenting that is still underdeveloped is the analysis of the prosecution of patent applications by patent offices not from a technological perspective, but through the lens of public policy. The theoretical rationale of patenting is to generate direct reward to investment and knowledge disclosure, with the indirect …

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Solve Climate by 2030 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This event will be streamed by Facebook. See the link below:https://www.facebook.com/pg/centrobrasilnoclima/posts/?ref=page_internal The webinar will take place on April 7, 2020 at 6 pm (Rio de Janeiro time)/5 pm (EST).This event will be held in Portuguese. Description: The Young Scholars Initiative is partnering with the Solve Climate by 2030 (http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/), where simultaneous webinars will be held …

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project Series YSI/FLE meetups in the age of coronavirus

1st YSI/FLE meetup in the age of coronavirus

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The lockdown continues and so does our research, but you are not alone in this! The Finance, Law and Economics Working Group is ready to start with its first meetup on Wednesday, April 8th at 5 pm CET.During our first meetup, we will discuss with Dr. Orkun Saka about his last paper "Financial Policymaking after …

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Feminist Approaches to Economics: Current Discussions Within the Field

National Press Club Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview Feminist economics offers a way to reimagine what it means to think like an economist. By offering new perspectives, it not only challenges the predominant economic models, but also offers pointed revisions. Today's key research topics in feminist economics …

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A Global Green New Deal

Greenpeace H Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The average global temperature keeps rising. And carbon pollution is just one element of a general environmental crisis which also includes pollution of water, ocean plastic contamination, soil exhaustion and much more. The environmental emergency is now an undeniable …

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75 Years After Bretton Woods: Does the World Need a New Global System?

National Press Club 14th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field Overview The year of 2019 marked the 75th anniversay of the agreement that shaped the global monetary system. Last year at the Jackson Hole meeting, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, claimed that "The deficiencies of the international …

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Governing through austerity: the (il)logics of neoliberal urbanism

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, major economies have entered a cycle of slow growth and rising government deficits, to which economists have responded with public expenditure cuts. Such austerity measures tend to reorganize the institutional …

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A 30 Year Re-evaluation of Structural Adjustment Policies

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 16th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will provide young scholars and policy makers the opportunity to hear from and discuss with senior experts. Overview Since gaining their economic independence, the less-developed economies (LDEs) of the Global South have invested heavily in their economic development. This process has largely been understood as a restructuring of the LDEs, so they would …

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New Challenges to Civil Rights in the Digital Era

ACLU 15th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will feature paper presentations by young scholars and policymakers, as well as a discussion with a senior level expert in the field. Overview During the 1990’s and the first decade of the 2000’s there was a hope that the rapid development of the internet and new communication technology would empower and free individuals …

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The Grey Revolution: Aging and Welfare

Washington D.C., DC, USA Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include poster presentations, as well as an interdisciplinary town-hall style discussion, with input from K. Ali Akkemik, an expert in the field. Overview Rapidly growing elderly populations is quietly changing the demographic composition of the worlds developing economies. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total …

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Financing Africa’s Development

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The literature on how to finance Africa’s development long centered around Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). To attract FDI, it was argued, Africa needs to sway the international community with financial liberalisation. In later years, the debates changed. Scholars explored …

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