📢Call for Papers

Nordic Conference in #DevelopmentEconomics
17-18 June 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰

Keynotes
🔸 Prof Santiago Levy
🔸 Prof Jenny Aker

17 March 2024: Paper/extended abstract submission deadline

More info👉 econ.ku.dk/derg/calendar/…

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⁦Finn Tarp⁩ introduces our @ EQUAL project at the ⁦VolkswagenStiftung⁩ symposium on Perspectives on Social Inequality and Wealth. #DERGDK ⁦UNU-WIDER⁩ 👏🏼

Day 2 of VolkswagenStiftung⁩ symposium on social wealth and inequality begins with results from yesterday’s workshop groups. Ines Ferreira from our @ EQUAL project reports on bridging horizons, comparative perspectives b/n Global North & Global South. #DERGDK ⁦UNU-WIDER⁩

😀Nice lunch meeting today with the core team that 22 years ago started the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) - Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) collaboration on Strengthening the Development Research & Policy Analysis Capacity of CIEM

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#DERGDK is happy to contribute to a research dissemination workshop taking place on 19 November 2021 at University of Dar es Salaam.

We will discuss research in Tanzania as part of our #Growth and #Development Research Project (GDRP).

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More on the project👉 bit.ly/3HyJvVH

3 more years. Continued #collaboration with the Department of Economics, #university of #daressalaam . Thanks to #danida and the Danish Embassy in #Tanzania . #DERGDK Finn Tarp

📸 Participants at the July 2023 IGMozambique short course on SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) and CGE modeling.

🤓 The course is designed for staff at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and members of the Faculty of Economics of the UEM - Moçambique.

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#Mozambique 🇲🇿

😀 Great to be back in #Vietnam 🇻🇳for work with colleagues from The Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA).

🚶Starting with a Sunday walk in Hanoi.

👌The pomelos are fantastic.

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This year’s UNU-WIDER & Economía Uniandes inequality conference included a session on our Novo Nordisk Foundation - funded project ‘The Impact of #Inequality on Growth, Human Development and Governance @ EQUAL’.

Papers presented👇
econ.ku.dk/derg/news/novo…

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#WIDERDevConf2022

Visiting micro and small firms in #Yangon #Myanmar . Trying to better understand the constraints they are facing. Finn Tarp Henrik Hansen Neda Trifkovic DanidaFellowship #DERGDK

👏 Congratulations to UCPH-DERG Professor Finn Tarp on his new appointment as Chair of ZEF’s Advisory Board at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

econ.ku.dk/derg/news/prof…

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Economics_UCPH
University of Copenhagen Research

Not only #poverty , but also the risk of poverty caused by fluctuating coffee prices has a significant additional negative effect on the mental well-being of farmers in low-income countries.

New #DERGDK study on UCPH news
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econ.ku.dk/derg/news/fluc…

#Vietnam

#Hanoi – I am leaving after a great visit.

Your cakes are alluring🎂

The octopus delicious🐙

The games mind catching🤔

Street lights and views of the city are fantastic🌃

And yes Hanoians you bike – more than I ever thought you would 🚴🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Until next time❤️🇻🇳👋

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Does Hope Matter to the Poor?
Travis Lybbert from UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics @UCDavis asks if the poor would have the #motivation to use newly learnt #skills to improve their #livelihood and shows that #hope does matter for #business performance.
With Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at University of Copenhagen
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Happy to be in #Vietnam for our @ EQUAL project pilot experiment

The @ EQUAL project explores the impact of inequality on major economic & political outcomes, globally & in Vietnam & Mozambique 

UNU-WIDER Finn Tarp #DERGDK
👉bit.ly/2QFtKUh  wider.unu.edu/project/impact…

Does Hope Matter to the Poor?
Travis Lybbert from UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics asks if the poor would have the #motivation to use newly learnt #skills to improve their #livelihood and shows that #hope does matter for #business performance.
Video produced with Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at University of Copenhagen
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A GREAT thanks to researchers and resource persons in Group A at the African Economic Research Consortium Biannual Research Workshop in Nairobi🇰🇪 for three stimulating research days.

1️⃣8️⃣papers on #poverty , #LabourMarkets & #inequality

1️⃣1️⃣authors from African countries

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#WEAreAERC
#AERCImpact

Introducing 5 articles on migration governance and policy in the Global South

bit.ly/2P2EEVy via
IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳

This August 2019 special section has its origins in the
UNU-WIDER
conference #Migration and Mobility: bit.ly/2KJcGtS

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#Beira , which was hit by three cyclones in two years, hosted its first #tedx conference on the topic of #resilience this Saturday. What a great initiative! Have a look here: youtube.com/watch?v=tqM3OH…
#cyclone_idai #mozambique #tedx beira #dergdk

What are the institutional dimensions of development? Finn Tarp, António S. Cruz , Ines A. Ferreira , Johnny Flentø analyse the historical and political context of Mozambique in this new open access book: cambridge.org/core/books/moz…
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