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

Peace in the Age of Chaos

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.....

Minimum Performance Targets, Multitasking and Incentives: Theory and Evidence from China’s Air Quality Controls

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..

Belt and Road Initiative

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......