Past Events
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Climate, Ecosystem Resilience and the Slave Trade
Tuesday, 9/4/2012, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
James Fenske University Lecturer in Economic History, Oxford University The paper can be found here. Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendric
Making Urbanization in Asia Sustainable: Trends and Challenges
Wednesday, 8/29/2012, 12:15pm - 2:00pm
Guanghua Wan Asian Development Bank PISA and ADB The PowerPoint presentation can be found here. Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:15 to 2:00pm Lindner Commons, 6th
Wednesday, 4/25/2012, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Climate Impact and Food Security Co-sponsors: SPHHS and Office of Sustainability Innovation Picture ID/GWID Required Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:00 to 3:00pm
Tuesday, 11/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Carmen Pages-Serra Inter-American Development Bank For more information, click here. Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room R
The measurement of human development in theory and in practice”
Tuesday, 11/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Eduardo Zambrano California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room
“Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing Versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso”
Tuesday, 11/15/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Travis J. Lybbert University of California Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC-Davis) Co-sponsor: GWU Department of Economics Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:30
Wednesday, 11/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Fred Joutz Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Program on Forecasting, GWU Desmond Lachman Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Holger
Wednesday, 10/26/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Organized by The Institute for International Economic Policy and Transparency International’s (UK) International Defence & Security Programme To listen to the..
Tariff Binding Overhang: Theory and Evidence
Monday, 10/10/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Mostafa Beshkar Assistant Professor of Economics and Peter T. Paul Research Fellow, University of New Hampshire Prof. Beshkar’s Paper can be found here. Co-spon
Why Cooperate Over Water? Water Has No Borders
Monday, 10/3/2011, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC for an evening with Gidon Bromberg, Co-Director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) To RSVP for the confer
Volatility in Commodity Markets – Causes and Impacts on the Poor
Thursday, 9/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Joachim von Braun Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Professor for Economic and Technological Change at University of Bonn, Germany and f
Wednesday, 9/21/2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
President Obama has described the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the first 21st century trade agreement. These negotiations are particularly important to ad
Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty
Tuesday, 9/20/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Peter Lanjouw Research Department, World Bank Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW Washington
Wednesday, 9/14/2011, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Robert Zoellick President, World Bank In the run-up to the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Mr. Zoellick will discuss recent developments and the changing world
Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
Monday, 9/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Steven Radelet Chief Economist, USAID Dr. Radelet’s book can be previewed here. Please find his PowerPoint presentation here. Audio of Dr. Radelet’s presentatio
Advances in Behavioral Finance
Thursday, 5/26/2011, 8:15am - 6:00pm
8:15 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Breakfast 8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks IIEP Director Stephen C. Smith and IMF Institute Deputy Director Eric Clifton 9:00 a.m.-10:30
Monday, 4/25/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Interest in corruption (abuse of public o¢ ce for private gains) is not of recent origin. In Arthashastra, Kautilya was concerned, among other themes, in design
Tuesday, 4/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Irina Murtazashvili University of Pittsburgh Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics
Managers’ Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages
Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Luca David Opromolla Banco de Portugal Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics
The Global Economic Crisis: A View from Montenegro
Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Milorad Katnić Finance Minister, Montenegro The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)