Past Events

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Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

Thursday, 10/27/2022, 9:00am - 10:00am

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

The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world

Monday, 10/24/2022, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

It is widely acknowledged that for efficient progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) their interlinkages have to be taken into account.

Macro-International Seminar with Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)

Wednesday, 10/19/2022, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

“Security Lending and Corporate Financing: Evidence from Bond Issuance”

The 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Monday, 10/17/2022, All day

This seminar explored the latest findings of the 2022 update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago

Tuesday, 10/11/2022, 12:30pm - 3:00pm

Matthew Turner (Brown University) presented his paper “The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago”, which is attached.

An environmentally-augmented Multidimensional Poverty Index: The Case of Madagascar

Monday, 10/10/2022, All day

The continuing degradation of the environment, which constitutes a major threat to human life, urges scientists to find new reliable methods to measure the asso

A Fresh Look at Digital Trade in North America

Friday, 12/1/2017, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

While TPP has the first binding language in its e-commerce chapter, NAFTA could be the first digital economy trade agreement designed to facilitate.

Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Latin America

Tuesday, 3/24/2015, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Democracy, migration, security, human rights, trade, climate change … if you follow current events in Latin America, you know it’s a vibrant region making......

4th Annual Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference

Friday, 4/25/2014, 8:30am - 4:00pm

The Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) is a forum that highlights trade research at institutions in the Washington D.C. area.

Petty Corruption

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

A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China

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.