Events

Recent Events

• Fiscal Space for Universal Health and Social Protection after the COVID19 Pandemic: How to Prevent Austerity

  10/02/20   Meeting

  In 2020 governments have financed emergency care and urgent socioeconomic support to cope with COVID19. While this short-term expending was necessary, countries must also continue to invest in long-term universal health, social protection systems/floors and other SDGs. The funding gap remains vast and fiscal space limited given higher levels of...

• The International Economic Association (IEA) announces the Stiglitz Essay Prize

  07/03/20 - 07/07/20   Meeting

  Bali, Indonesia

  

  The International Economic Association (IEA) is happy to announce the Second Stiglitz Essay Prize (SEP) in honour of the past President of the association, Joseph E. Stiglitz. The deadline for submitting essays is Thursday 31 October 2019 at 2359 hours (GMT).

• IMF Conditionality Reform in Promise and Practice: What does the evidence show?

  10/17/19   Meeting

  As this is the first IMF meeting since the latest Review of Program Design and Conditionality, the panel assessed the Fund’s self-reported conditionality reform in light of independent evidence and analysis. This panel incorporated academic researchers and civil society actors to consider new research on IMF fiscal conditionality reform. The...

• Globalization and Achieving the SDGs in Africa

  08/27/19   Meeting

  Toyko, Japan

  Professor Joseph Stiglitz will host a public seminar and give a keynote address relating to his joint research project between IPD and JICA-RI.

• Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy

  03/21/19   Meeting

  Brussels, Belgium

  On March 21st, FEPS and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz will give a keynote address regarding his report, "Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy," which will be published as a book later this year.

• Celebrating the ILO's Centenary: Investing in People at Work

  03/13/19   Meeting

  New York, New York , United States

  The International Labor Organization (ILO) Office for the United States in collaboration with Columbia University is hosting an afternoon conference, followed by an early evening reception to discuss the impact of the gig economy on shaping today's workplace, as it relates to the protection and rights of independent workers, outside the...

• 2018 Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development, and Globalization

  07/08/18   Graduate Workshop

  Bangalore, India

  The 2018 Advanced Graduate Workshop will take place in Bangalore, India from July 8-21.

• INET/IMF Conference on the Macroeconomics of AI

  04/06/18 - 04/07/18   Meeting

  A discussion on the effects of AI on Macroeconomics.

• Financial Networks: Big Risks, Macroeconomic Externalities, and Policy Commitment Devices

  02/23/18 - 02/24/18   Meeting

  The objective of the conference is to exchange perspectives on the risks posed by financial networks, and the role these networks play in the well-functioning of the real economy.

• 5th Annual FEPS-IPD Conference: A more progressive trade policy: regroup and reform

  10/16/17   Meeting

  Washington DC

  High-level, pertinent stakeholders from the US and Europe will gather together to discuss and debate throughout the day, focused on three topics - trade agreements and their effects, current trade imbalances, and the political reality of international trade agreements.