Past Events

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Colonial Origins and Fertility: Can the Market Overcome History?

Thursday, 1/23/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Can market incentives overcome the long-term impact of historical institutions? We address this question by focusing on the role of colonial reproductive laws..

Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Tuesday, 1/7/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, October 8, 2014, 12:30-2:00pm Jenny Aker, Tufts University “Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of

Technology, Taxation, and Corruption Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing

Thursday, 12/12/2019, 12:30am - 2:00pm

Please join us with welcoming Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank) as she will be be presenting a Trade & Development Workshop. Many e-government initiatives introduce

South Africa: Rebuilding the Dream

Monday, 11/11/2019, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, South Africa’s economy is in crisis. Inequality in South Africa is the highest in the world; unemployment is on th

IMF October 2019 World Economic Outlook

Friday, 11/1/2019, 9:30am - 12:15pm

Friday, November 1, 2019 9:30a.m. – 12:15p.m. Lindner Family Commons (6th Floor) Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20052

All Aboard: The Aggregate Effects of Port Development

Wednesday, 10/30/2019, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Please join us to listen to Claudia Steinwender from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Steinwender has written extensively in the area of international trade,

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Digital Trade

Wednesday, 10/30/2019, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Data has become the most traded good and/or service across borders. The American economy is increasingly reliant on digital trade. But the US does not yet parti

Elusive Development in Latin America: Structural Challenges and Instability Hotspots

Friday, 10/11/2019, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Friday, October 11th, 2019 2:00 – 3:30pm, Room 212 Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E St NW, Washington, DC 20052 The event will feature Luis Felipe

Seminar on Governing Finance for Sustainability

Monday, 9/30/2019, 11:30am - 12:30pm

The nexus between financial governance, macroeconomic and financial stability, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability has become the subject of a gro

Ethics and Leadership: A discussion on ‘America First’ Foreign Policy with Patrick Fine

Monday, 9/16/2019, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Patrick C. Fine is the Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing

6th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference

Saturday, 8/31/2019, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Monday, September 9th, 2019. 5th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference 4th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference 3rd Urbanizat

Applied Micro Seminar

Saturday, 5/4/2019, 12:30am - 2:00pm

Abstract: A social program can achieve great success in one case but not in another, and the reason is far from clear. This paper tests a new hypothesis that ti

Shared Values in U.S.- Taiwan Relations: Strengthening Democracy Through Open Governance

Tuesday, 4/23/2019, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Open. Collective. Experimental. Sustainable. Taiwan’s first Digital Minister Audrey Tang will address what happens when people who grew up on the internet get t

Earth Day: The Ethics of Climate Change

Monday, 4/22/2019, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Dr. Andrew Steer is the President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, a global research organization that works in more than 50 countries, with offices in

IMF World Economic Outlook

Friday, 4/12/2019, 9:30am - 12:15pm

Maggie Chen is a professor of economics and international affairs at The George Washington University. Her areas of research expertise include foreign direct in

Economic Diversification in the Post-Oil Era

Friday, 4/12/2019, 9:00am - 10:30am

Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00 am – 10:30 am Hosting Kuwait’s Minister of Finance Elliott School of International Affairs State room, 7th floor 1957 E Street NW W

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals

Wednesday, 4/10/2019, 8:00am - 9:30am

Information: The last few years have witnessed a seismic shift in investors’ attitudes and demand for social and economic investments in emerging markets. Impac

Joint MACRO-INTERNATIONAL-Trade-Development SEMINAR

Friday, 4/5/2019, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 2:30 – 4:00 PM “Structural Change and Aggregate Employment Fluctuations in China and the U.S.” Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto) Ke

7th Annual Conference Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES)

Friday, 4/5/2019, 8:30am - 5:00pm

The Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES) is an annual research conference which highlights academic work from researchers at leading economic

Can Globalization Be Saved?

Wednesday, 4/3/2019, 2:15pm - 3:40pm

Panel of discussion and conversation between high-level senior officials in the field of globalization and economics. Elliott School of International Affairs Li