Southeast Asia Regional Rapporteurs Online Meeting
Southeast Asia Regional Rapporteurs Online Meeting
Second meeting to discuss the informative report phase, opportunities for future collaboration, and avenues to share the informative reports.
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*POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020* LSE Shifting Landscapes Conference 2020
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 …
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ESG Investing, Impact Investing and Ethical Banking
ESG Investing, Impact Investing and Ethical Banking
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.
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-RESCHEDULED-EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergov Bargaining
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-RESCHEDULED-EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergov Bargaining
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 …
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EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergovernmental Bargaining
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EU Recovery Fund: Citizens’ Attitudes and Intergovernmental Bargaining
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 …
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Producing diagnostic technologies for the Brazilian healthcare system
Producing diagnostic technologies for the Brazilian healthcare system
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 …
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Environmental crisis and the Pandemic in Latin America
Environmental crisis and the Pandemic in Latin America
The YSI Webinar series on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America has already discussed the economic, political and social dimensions of this crisis. In the next episode, we turn to the environmental crisis in the context of the pandemic in Latin America. The current development model in Latin America has led to …
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Development of African economic thought
The proposed panel seeks address the following topical questions: Is there an African economic thought? Who are the thinkers from the African continent from the remote past to the present who formulated economic ideas? And what are these ideas? We underscore that most historians of economic thought, let alone economists not specialised in the history …
African Economic Dynamics: Local, Regional, and International
The YSI Africa working group once again will partner the African Economic History Network at their 2020 conference at the Universityof the Free State. The AEHN has held annual meetings since 2005, and participation has grown exponentially. The 2020 meeting willbe in Bloemfontein, South Africa. One of the main goals of our proposed YSI workshop …
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DAGs and the Structural Causal Model: Introduction
DAGs and the Structural Causal Model: Introduction
Session 1: DAGs and the Structural Causal Model: Introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 4 “Directed acyclical graphs”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.htmlComplementary reading: Pearl et al. 2016 "Causal inference in statistics: a primer", sections 1.4 and 1.5 (pages 24-32)
Follow-up discussion | What’s at Stake?
Follow-up discussion | What’s at Stake?
What's at Stake?22 September, 12pm ETMike Spence, James Manyika, Steve Clemson Discussant in follow-up session: Lara Merling (International Trade Union Confederation) Session detailsAdvancements in automation and artificial intelligence are quickly reaching tipping points, yet our policies, institutions and mindsets are woefully outdated. What will work look like in the future, and how do we secure …
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KEDG – First Meeting
KEDG – First Meeting
23/Sep - Emanuele Citera: The network origins of aggregate fluctuations: a demand-side approach13/Oct - Gustavo Pereira Serra: Household borrowing for Consumption and Investment in Human Capital: a neo-Kaleckian approach4/Nov - Vinicius Curti Cícero: Three essays on FDI and uneven development25/Nov - Guilherme Spinato Morlin: Inflation and conflicting claims in the open economy15/Dec - Yin Stan …
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Why study the history of development economics?
Why study the history of development economics?
Michele Alacevich (Associate Professor of History, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Bologna) will discuss the history of development economics looking for analytical insights that can inform policy-making in the development field today. The focus will be on the political economy of development, and on how theoretical debates and the practice of development …
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YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Ezra Karger
YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Ezra Karger
Ezra Karger, PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago will present his work: The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s. Abstract:Between 1890 and 1921, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of 1,618 public libraries in cities and towns across the United States. I link these library construction grants to census …
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Follow-up discussion | What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, Displacer?
Follow-up discussion | What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, Displacer?
What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, or Displacer?29 September, 11am ETLong Chen, Anton Korinek and John Van Reenen Discussants in follow-up session: Cecilia Rikap (CONICET, Argentina & Université de Paris and Université de Technologie de Compiègne,France), Veronica Robert (CONICET-UNSAM) Session detailsHuman societies have always coevolved with technology, but how can we think of technology? Is it …
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Potential Outcomes: Introduction
Potential Outcomes: Introduction
Session 2: Potential outcomes: introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 5 “Potential outcomes causal model”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html
