Past Events

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India’s Economy in a Post-Pandemic World

Friday, 10/22/2021, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

We were pleased to invite you to the second webinar in the 2021-2022 Envisioning India series, co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Instit

Governing the New Voluntary Carbon Markets

Tuesday, 10/19/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

We were pleased to invite you to an IIEP/ASU-Thunderbird event on Tuesday, October 19th, entitled “Governing the New Voluntary Carbon Markets.” This event will

Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?

Friday, 10/15/2021, 9:30am - 11:00am

The Institute for International Economic Policy was pleased to invite you to the 14th annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

Monday, 10/11/2021, 11:00am - 12:15pm

In this first event in the continuation of our seminar series on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, jointly hosted by the Oxford Poverty and Human Developmen

Getting India to the Green Frontier

Wednesday, 9/29/2021, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

This was the eleventh webinar in the “Envisioning India” series, a platform for dialogue and debate co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the I

Inequality and the Centrifugal Nature of the Labor Market

Wednesday, 9/29/2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

This was a joint Facing Inequality Series and Rethinking Capitalism & Democracy Series event featuring Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria). Globalization and

Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention

Thursday, 9/23/2021, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Elliott School of International Affairs Book Launch Series were pleased to invite you to a book.....

Are Pitcairn Island (UK), China and Taiwan really joining CPTPP?

Thursday, 9/23/2021, 3:00pm - 4:00pm

WITA and the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University discussed the potential for the UK and China to join the Comprehensive

The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job

Wednesday, 9/15/2021, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Joint Macro-International / Trade & Development Workshop David Deming (Harvard University and NBER) presented his paper, “The Growing Importance of Decision-Mak

Poverty, Climate, and Unemployment: Towards a World of Three Zeros

Friday, 9/10/2021, 10:00am - 11:00pm

We were 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 mode

Food Systems at a Crossroads: How to fix them and help people, economies, and the planet

Thursday, 6/24/2021, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The empty grocery shelves and miles-long food bank queues we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the fragility of the highly centralized, “j

The Spatial Economic Effects of Conflict

Wednesday, 6/9/2021, 9:00am - 12:39pm

This workshop showcased the most recent advances in the field of economics on conflict with a particular focus on the local and spillover effects of conflict...

Policy Choices and Contagion: The Covid Pandemic and the Climate Crisis

Wednesday, 5/26/2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Behavioral contagion refers to how ideas and behaviors often spread in ways that resemble the spread of infectious disease. Exposure to others infected by a....

Disaggregating the Global MPI by Ethnicity

Monday, 5/17/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

Alkire and Kovesdi discussed how the painful topic of race relations, discrimination, and disparities across ethnic groups are in the public eye. Far earlier,..

8th Annual Conference Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES)

Friday, 5/14/2021, 2:00pm - 5:30pm

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

IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Preempting a Legacy of Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, 5/11/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

Andrea Deghi is a Financial Sector Expert in the Global Financial Stability Analysis Division of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. In his role,

A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement

Monday, 5/10/2021, 10:00am - 11:00am

Although forcibly displaced communities face many simultaneous deprivations in their daily lives, in access to education, food security, adequate housing, etc.,

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

Friday, 4/30/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

The Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Elliott School of International Affairs Book Launch Series was pleased to invite you to a book launch

Peace in the Age of Chaos

Thursday, 4/22/2021, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

The major challenges facing humanity are global in nature – climate change, pandemics, ever decreasing biodiversity, lack of usable fresh water and food........

India’s Trade Policy: Past, Present, Future

Thursday, 4/22/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

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