Events

Monday, September 27

• 10:00 AM
  
  Will the Revamped US Trade Policy Be Ready for Global Challenges?

  The Biden administration recently shared an ambitious vision for a ‘worker-centered’ trade policy to tackle the global race-to-the-bottom, build resilience in domestic supply chains and strengthen

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Wednesday, September 29

• 4:00 PM
  
  Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey

  Exposing voters to non-state-provisioned information is presumed to counter incumbents’ efforts to keep voters uninformed in order to remain in power. In a new study, Ceren Baysan estimates the effect

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Tuesday, October 5

• 9:00 AM
  
  Climate Policy at the International Monetary Fund: Securing a Development-Centered Approach

  As the only multilateral, rules-based institution charged with promoting the stability of the international financial and monetary system to enable longer-run growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a

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Wednesday, October 20

• 9:00 AM
  
  Africa and China: Structural Changes and Economic Transformation

  In a chapter for a World Bank September 2021 publication, Justin Lin and Yan Wang argue African countries should adopt development strategies around their comparative advantages and have credible and

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• 4:00 PM
  
  Make an Appointment: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors

  Appointments are ubiquitous in developed-country healthcare systems for logistical reasons. In a new study, Laura Derksen, University of Toronto, Rotman and coauthors assess whether appointments also help address

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Thursday, October 28

• 9:00 AM
  
  Progress and Shortcomings: The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created

  Comprising an estimated total population of nearly 3.21 billion people, the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa constitute the world’s five major emerging economies and are

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Monday, November 1

• 12:30 PM
  
  After the Developmental State: Hajj Hamad and the Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa

  The failure of the 1960s developmental states causes Sudanese political and economic thought to take on an increasingly regional and international perspective. Intellectuals from across the political spectrum come

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Wednesday, November 10

• 1:30 PM
  
  Cooperation for Net-Zero and Climate Resilience: Ethiopian and Chinese Perspectives

  Climate change poses significant risks that could exacerbate poverty and inequality, and threatens the financial stability and long-run growth prospects of the world economy. Recent extreme weather events,

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Wednesday, November 17

• 9:00 AM
  
  Environmental Risks and Power Plant Suspension

  Energy investment is crucial to accelerating a global sustainable energy transition. Nevertheless, not all investments are successful. From her research of Chinese overseas investments in the power sector over

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• 4:00 PM
  
  Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho

  Children starting school at younger ages have more potential years of education before they age out of compulsory schooling. However, early-starters also progress through school as the youngest in their

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Thursday, November 18

• 9:30 AM
  
  Make or Break? Mainstreaming Climate Policy at the IMF

  As the only multilateral, rules-based institution charged with promoting the stability of the international financial and monetary system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a central role to play in

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Friday, November 19

• 10:00 AM
  
  Shrinking Policy Space in International Trade: A Conversation with Rachel Thrasher and Ha-Joon Chang

  Consisting of one multilateral trade agreement, more than 300 preferential free trade agreements and almost 3,000 bilateral investment treaties, the global trading system seeks to establish a stable regulatory

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