Past Events

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According to Shakespeare, “Every Cloud Engenders Not a Storm”

Monday, 11/23/2020, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Users were first introduced to the idea that their data was stored somewhere in the ether, aka “the cloud” around 2010. But that vague notion of the cloud was..

The Measurement of Human Development in Theory and in Practice

Sunday, 11/22/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, November 22, 12:30-2, Monroe 321 Eduardo Zambrano, California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University, “The measurement of human developmen

Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso

Sunday, 11/15/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, November 15, 12:30-2, Monroe 321 Travis J. Lybbert, University of California, Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC Davis): “Who Smooths What? Asset Smo

The Positive Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China

Friday, 11/13/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Yao Pan, George Washington University “The Positive Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China”

Theory and Practice: The Economics of Implementation and India’s Covid-19 Response

Thursday, 11/12/2020, 9:00am - 10:30am

This was the third webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Institute for International Economic Po

13th China Conference Keynote Address: China’s Overseas Lending and Developing-Country Debt After COVID with Carmen Reinhart

Friday, 10/30/2020, 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 R

International Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region Amidst U.S.-China Tensions

Wednesday, 10/28/2020, 7:00pm - 8:15pm

The Institute for International Economic Policy was pleased to invite you to the 13th annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic.

IMF October 2020 World Economic Outlook

Wednesday, 10/28/2020, 11:00am - 12:30pm

The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hosted a virtual discussion of the IMF’s October 2020 World Eco

Immunocapital: Disease, Power, and Inequality in the Antebellum Cotton Kingdom

Monday, 10/26/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

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

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Trading Up in the Era of COVID-19

Friday, 10/23/2020, 9:00am - 10:15am

The ACFTA and Africa’s Economic Future A conversation with Albert Muchanga, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry, on the road ahead for the African

Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets

Monday, 10/19/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday, October 19, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Asim Khwaja, Harvard University “Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Market

No Going Back: Post Corona Reconstruction Program

Tuesday, 9/29/2020, 11:00am - 12:00pm

We are pleased to invite you to a conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh who created a model

Short and long-run distributional impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America

Monday, 9/28/2020, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

“Facing Inequality” is a webinar series hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy. This virtual series focuses on current and emerging inequalit

Fiscal Dominance: A Theory of Everything in India

Wednesday, 9/9/2020, 10:00am - 11:30am

This was the first webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Institute for International Economic Po

A Paradox of Morality: Using Games to Understand Group Moral Responsibility

Thursday, 8/20/2020, 10:00am - 11:30am

This event is co-sponsored by the Elliott School, the Leadership, Ethics, and Practice (LEAP) Initiative, the GW Economics Department‘s Microeconomics Workshop,

A Discussion of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020

Wednesday, 7/29/2020, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Please join the Institute for International Economic Policy for a virtual discussion of the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative’s Global MPI 2020: – C

IMF’s Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook (REO)

Thursday, 7/23/2020, 11:00am - 12:30pm

Schedule 11:00 – 11:05 a.m. Welcoming Remarks: James Foster, George Washington University Jennifer Cooke, IAFS Director, George Washington University 11:05 – 11

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