The 4th UNCTAD YSI Summer School celebrates the approach and legacy of UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report (TDR). The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.
Podcasts | Government & Politics, Health, Inequality & Distribution, Trade
The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.
Article | Environment, Gender, Human Behavior
Who Can Save Us From Jeff Bezos and Silicon Valley’s Planetary Death Wish?
The work of feminist thinkers helps illuminate why billionaires seek to solve problems on Earth by blasting into space.
Article | Technology & Innovation
CIGI Celebrates 20 Years of Research and Expert Analysis
In 2021, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) celebrates 20 years of contributing research and expert analysis to global policy making.
Article | Macroeconomics, Technology & Innovation
Occasionally, financial speculation fastens onto transformational technologies that have the potential to create a genuinely new economy.
Article | Labor
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
By Clarissa A. Leon and Mike Elk
Video
Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies?
Featuring Jeffrey D. Sachs and Rob Johnson
Video
Featuring Kenneth Cukier and Rob Johnson
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?
Working Paper | History, Inequality & Distribution, Labor, Race
How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it
By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand
By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori
Working Paper | Finance
Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system
By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun
Contrary to the New Keynesian paradigm, long-term unemployment can be reversed without a significant uptick in inflation
By Walter Paternesi Meloni, Davide Romaniello, and Antonella Stirati
Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers
By Steven Fazzari and Ella Needler
Jun 29, 2021
Webinars and Events
Where are the US and Europe now and where could they be going?
Jun 17, 2021
Webinars and Events
New economic engagements with India.
Jun 03, 2021
Webinars and Events
Watch INET at the Trento Economics Festival online
May 31, 2021
Webinars and Events
By Stefano Sannino Secretary-General, European External Action Service (EEAS), Jutta Urpilainen EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission, Rohinton P. Medhora President, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Andrew Michael Spence Nobel Laureate of Economics, Co-Chair, Commission on Global Economic Transformation, Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Andrea Renda (moderator) Senior Research Fellow, Head of GRID Unit, CEPS
Apr 22, 2021
Webinars and Events
A new age virtual conference series in 2021 that aims to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
Apr 08, 2021
Webinars and Events
Join us for this lively and timely presentation, followed by Q&A.
Jun 15, 2021
