Past Events
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Campaign Finance Rules and Wealth of Politicians
Wednesday, 6/2/2021, 9:00am - 12:30pm
This virtual series focuses on current and emerging inequality issues in the U.S. and around the globe.
Policy Choices and Contagion: The Covid Pandemic and the Climate Crisis
Wednesday, 5/26/2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Behavioral contagion refers to how ideas and behaviors often spread in ways that resemble the spread of infectious disease. Exposure to others infected by a....
The Use of Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Health Emergencies
Monday, 5/24/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am
Health emergencies pose serious threats to human lives and livelihoods. They also risk exacerbating disadvantages by unequally affecting those who are....
Disaggregating the Global MPI by Ethnicity
Monday, 5/17/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am
Alkire and Kovesdi discussed how the painful topic of race relations, discrimination, and disparities across ethnic groups are in the public eye. Far earlier,..
8th Annual Conference Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES)
Friday, 5/14/2021, 2:00pm - 5:30pm
The Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES) is an annual research conference which highlights academic work from researchers at leading economic
IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Preempting a Legacy of Vulnerabilities
Tuesday, 5/11/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am
Andrea Deghi is a Financial Sector Expert in the Global Financial Stability Analysis Division of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. In his role,
A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Monday, 5/10/2021, 10:00am - 11:00am
Although forcibly displaced communities face many simultaneous deprivations in their daily lives, in access to education, food security, adequate housing, etc.,
Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
Friday, 4/30/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am
The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Elliott School of International Affairs Book Launch Series was pleased to invite you to a book launch
Thursday, 4/22/2021, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
The major challenges facing humanity are global in nature – climate change, pandemics, ever decreasing biodiversity, lack of usable fresh water and food........
India’s Trade Policy: Past, Present, Future
Thursday, 4/22/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am
This was the ninth webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Institute for International Economic Po
Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?
Tuesday, 4/20/2021, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences? (Cambridge University Press) explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitari
Horizontal and Intersecting Wealth Inequalities in Mozambique – 1997 to 2017
Monday, 4/19/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am
Presenter: Ricardo Santos is a Research Fellow of the United Nations University World Institute of Development Economics Research – UNU-WIDER, stationed in Mapu
India’s Environment Challenges and Impact of COVID
Monday, 4/12/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am
This was the ninth webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, a platform for dialogue and debate co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the.....
Friday, 4/9/2021, 9:30am - 11:00am
The Institute for International Economic Policy is pleased to invite you to the 13th annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic..
Wednesday, 3/31/2021, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
The Undergraduate Economics Society is proud to announce a discussion with Jennifer Hillman, Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. In this conversa
International Monetary Fund’s Spring 2021 World Economic Outlook
Saturday, 3/27/2021, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Although the contraction of activity in 2020 was unprecedented in living memory, extraordinary policy support prevented even worse economic outcomes. Global gro
Quality-adjusted Population Density
Saturday, 3/27/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
J. Vernon Henderson joined the London School of Economics in September 2013 as School Professor of Economic Geography, having previously been Eastman Professor
The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Saturday, 3/27/2021, 10:00am - 11:00am
Policy and programme impacts of multidimensional (child) poverty measurement Multidimensional poverty measures are being used increasingly widely, and indeed in
10th Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference
Saturday, 3/27/2021, 8:45am - 1:00pm
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Revised Arab Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021
Friday, 3/26/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am
The session presented the final proposal for the revised Arab Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) framework, as a result of technical work undertaken by......