Past Events
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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)
Human Rights, Development and Economic Growth – Metrics, New Ways of Thinking, and New Strategies
Thursday, 4/7/2011, 12:30pm - 5:30pm
Since the members of the UN negotiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the world has made great human rights progress. But that progress is..
Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium Redux
Tuesday, 4/5/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Ariell Reshef University of Virginia Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Friday, 4/1/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Rema Hanna Harvard University Download the paper here. Co-sponsored by the GWU Department of Economics.............
Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?
Tuesday, 3/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Andrew Foster with Mark Rosenzweig Brown University & Yale University.................
19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
Friday, 3/18/2011, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Hosted by The Institute for International Economic Policy View the conference announcement here..........
Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaption Assistance
Saturday, 3/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
David Wheeler Center for Global Development.........
1st Annual Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference
Friday, 3/11/2011, 8:00am - 4:45pm
The Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) is a forum that highlights trade research at institutions in the Washington D.C. area.
Magic Transition? Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Rural China from 1988 to 2002
Tuesday, 3/8/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Yan Sun Tuesday, March 8, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW Washington, DC 20052..................................
Self Interest, Altruism, and Super-Altruism in Foreign Aid: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test
Monday, 2/28/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Andrew W. Horowitz University of Arkansas....