Past Events

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The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures

Saturday, 3/27/2021, 10:00am - 11:00am

Policy and programme impacts of multidimensional (child) poverty measurement Multidimensional poverty measures are being used increasingly widely, and indeed in

10th Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference

Saturday, 3/27/2021, 8:45am - 1:00pm

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Revised Arab Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021

Friday, 3/26/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

The session presented the final proposal for the revised Arab Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) framework, as a result of technical work undertaken by......

Why Does the Fed Move Markets so Much? A Model of Monetary Policy and Time-Varying Risk Aversion

Thursday, 3/25/2021, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

The same habit preferences that explain the equity volatility puzzle in quarterly data also naturally explain large high-frequency stock responses to monetary..

Rethinking Financial Regulation for the 21st Century

Thursday, 3/11/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

This event was joint with GW Law Business and Finance Law program and featured Professor Emeritus Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. and discussant Professor Erik Gerding.

14th Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Relations

Thursday, 3/11/2021, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Moderator: Maggie Chen Dr. Bingjing Li (University of Hong Kong) James Feigenbaum (Boston University) Friday, November 5, 2021: One Currency, Two Markets.....

India’s Federal Finances in COVID Times: The 15th Finance Commission

Wednesday, 3/10/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

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

Africa after COVID-19: Charting a New Course for Economic Growth and Development

Tuesday, 3/9/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

Join IIEP and the Institute for African Studies for a discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency/NEPAD; Dr. Vera Songwe, Ex

China’s Outward Investments: State Capitalism or Capital Flight?

Friday, 3/5/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

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.

India’s Farm Laws

Friday, 2/26/2021, 9:00am - 10:30am

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

Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor in over 100 countries

Thursday, 2/25/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

Inequality among the poor matters because it matters that the poorest poor are not left behind. Leaving them behind is very often the case, as they are at the..

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States, joint with Marco Tabellini (HBS)

Tuesday, 2/23/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Paper: The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States, joint with Marco Tabellini (HBS)........

Language Training and Refugees’ Integration

Tuesday, 2/16/2021, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

The Trade & Development Seminar series highlights theoretical and/or empirical research on international and domestic trade, as well as the economic aspects of

Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses

Monday, 2/8/2021, 10:00am - 11:15am

Most poverty measures identify a household as poor or non-poor based on the achievements of all its members. Using the household as the unit of identification..

Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children. Four Measurement Strategies

Monday, 2/8/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

In order to break intergenerational cycles of poverty and sustainably alleviate deprivations, explicit focus on, and prioritisation of, disadvantaged children i

How the Pandemic Exposed the Incomplete Gender Revolution: Work, Family, and Public Policy

Wednesday, 2/3/2021, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Over the past 70 years gender roles in the home and the workplace changed. Women have become more equal contributors in the labor market and men more equal cont

3rd Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES)

Wednesday, 2/3/2021, 8:45am - 3:45pm

Friday, February 19, 2021 8:45am – 3:45pm Zoom..........

Moderate internationally comparable MPI

Monday, 2/1/2021, 10:00am - 11:30am

Many of the current poverty measures used to track progress towards the Agenda 2030 fall short of its ambition to “end poverty in all its forms, everywhere”....

Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures

Monday, 2/1/2021, 2:30am - 3:30am

We were pleased to invite you to the second virtual event of the Macro-International Seminar of Spring 2021. The Macro-International seminar hosts speakers from

Diagnosing and Addressing India’s Post-2011 Growth Slowdown

Friday, 1/22/2021, 8:30am - 10:00am

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