Past Events

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Webinar: Innovations in Digital Trade: The Sequel

Thursday, 7/16/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

The US and the UK have a long history of collaborating to create innovative trade agreements. Continuing discussions on innovations in digital trade and data go

Are Informal Workers Benefiting from Globalization? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in India

Wednesday, 7/15/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

We were pleased to invite you to the webinar series “Facing Inequality”, hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual series focuses.

How Should We Measure Multidimensional Inequality? A Philosopher’s Approach (with COVID applications)

Tuesday, 7/14/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to a new webinar series, “Facing Inequality”, hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual series will f

Can Internationally Accepted Principles Yield Trustworthy AI?

Wednesday, 6/24/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

When you use spell-check, shop on Amazon, or find a movie on Netflix, you are using AI. While AI may improve our quality and standard of living, use of poorly d

Imperfect Competition on the Cathedral Floor: Labourers in London 1672 to 1748

Friday, 6/19/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to a new webinar series, “Facing Inequality”, hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual series will f

Just Governance: Lessons on Climate Change Justice from People in Poverty

Tuesday, 6/16/2020, 12:30pm - 1:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to the third webinar of the “Facing Inequality” series, hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual ser

Women and the Web Webinar

Thursday, 5/28/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

While we can’t generalize, gender identity colors how many individuals experience the web. We write to invite you to our next webinar, where we will focus on wo

Elliott Experts Weigh in: The Global Economic System in the Age of Coronavirus

Thursday, 5/7/2020, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

In this edition of the Elliott School’s Experts Weigh In Series, Professor Maggie Chen (George Washington University) discussed the global economic system in th

Data & Human Rights During the Pandemic

Thursday, 4/30/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

While many analysts have focused on threats to online privacy, other human rights, including freedom of expression and access to information online, can also be

Why Has Data Become a National Security Issue?

Thursday, 4/16/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to the third webinar hosted by The Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. The webinars focus on current and emerging data governanc

The LEAP Initiative with Jorge Dajani, Chief Ethics Officer, World Bank

Tuesday, 4/14/2020, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Jorge Dajani is the Chief Ethics Officer of the World Bank Group. He will describe the organization and activities of the ethics function of the World Bank Grou

Webinar on Data Governance in Smart Cities

Thursday, 4/9/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to the second webinar hosted by The Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. The webinars focus on current and emerging data governan

Webinar on E-Commerce at the WTO: What’s Going On?

Monday, 3/30/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

We were pleased to invite you to the first webinar hosted by The Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub in a series of free webinars on current and emerging data

Entrepreneurship and Empowerment

Wednesday, 3/18/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, March 18, 12:30-2 Chris Blattman (Columbia) “Entrepreneurship and Empowerment”

2nd Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES)

Friday, 2/28/2020, 8:30am - 5:00pm

WALES is a one-day labor economics conference that brings together researchers from DC-area institutions. The goal is to provide an outlet to share work in prog

Covering The Other Half Billion: China’s Rural Sector

Thursday, 2/27/2020, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

For much of post-1949 history, the rural sector has been the poor relation of China’s society and economy. Today, however, the rural sector lies at the heart of

Mardi Dungey Memorial Research Conference

Friday, 2/21/2020, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

On behalf of the Institute for International Economic Policy, the Research Program on Forecasting, the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, University of

“Intervention without Empire: The Ethics of Foreign Influence in a Neo-Colonial World” with Dr. Lucia Rafanelli

Monday, 2/3/2020, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

In a world filled with state-sanctioned oppression, many look to the international community to help secure justice when states fail or refuse to do so. But att

Data as a Development Issue Conference

Friday, 1/31/2020, 9:00am - 5:00pm

9:00am: Welcome Professor James Foster, Professor and Director, Institute for International Economic Policy and George Washington University 9:15am: Presentatio

Agricultural Transformation and Farmers’ Expectations: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Tuesday, 1/28/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Why adoption rate of potentially pro table agricultural technologies in Africa remains low is still puzzling. This paper uses a randomized control trial to....