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  1. WEBINAR: Facing Inequality: Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S

    …rom MIT. She is a professor in the UC Davis Department of Economic and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Bitler’s research focuses on the effects of government safety net programs on disadvantaged groups, economic demography, health economics, public economics, and the economics of education, with a particular focus on food assistance programs. Before coming to UC Davis, she was a professor of economics at…

  2. RECORDING AVAILABLE: Exploring COVID from an Indigenous People perspective

    …ne 26, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM UTC+01 View the recording: https://hd-ca.org/videos/hdca-webinar-exploring-covid-from-an-indigenous-people-perspective Download the list of panelists The indigenous experience is very different than that of the larger country where they live. Indigenous people often are marginalized, unseen, and forgotten – resulting in a very different experience of COVID than other groups. From a history of pandemics and indigenous…

  3. Call for Papers: XVII Biennial IASC Conference ‘In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action’

    …ciation for the Study of the Commons welcome abstracts for papers, panels, videos, and posters to be presented at this conference, to be held in Lima, Peru, from 1 to 5 July 2019. https://www.iasc2019.org/. The meeting will be held in the PUCP’s Lima campus and will be hosted by both PUCP’s Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Department of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Extended deadline for submission of abstracts:…

  4. Call for Submissions: International Workshop on Empowerment, capacity and capability (Berlin)

    …Development Index of the UNO, micro-credit and empowerment policies of the World Bank…). Coined at an early stage with reference to issues of development, the concept has since spread all over the world, as a more general attempt to conceptualize freedom, inequalities and justice (Salais & Villeneuve, 2004; Leonardis et al., 2012; Subramanian et al., 2013; Otto & Ziegler, 2014). These many ways to promote the concept of capability resulted in gi…

  5. In Memoriam – Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Founding HDCA Fellow

    …hem the John-Bates-Clark-Medal of the American Economic Association (1957), the National Medal of Science given to him in 2006 by President George W. Bush, and numerous honorary doctorates. He also served as president of various national and international economic associations. Professor Arrow died on February 21, 2017, at his home in Palo Alto, California. He will be sorely missed. Wulf Gaertner University of Osnabrück and CPNSS, London School of…

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