Past events
Processed food exports from developing countries: a gravity model analysis
Wanissa Suanin presents her PhD research on processed food exports
Taking financial access to remote and insecure areas: impacts of a comprehensive financial inclusion intervention in Papua New Guinea
Hoy reports on the impacts of a comprehensive financial inclusion program in PNG, failing to detect any significant effects from the intervention.
Contemporary economics and contraindications for climate maladies: Lessons from environmental macroeconomics
In the context of concerns about climate change, Thampapillai proposes an approach to analysing economic growth that explicitly includes environmental capital as a productive factor.
Commodity price shocks and the seasonality of civil unrest
Ubilava investigates the influence of seasonal variation in cereal crop prices on internal conflict, and violence involving civilians, in low-income countries in Africa.
Does information empower the poor? Evidence from Indonesia’s social security card
Anu Rammohan reports on the effectiveness of an information campaign intended to improve the targeting of two large social programs in Indonesia.
The great influenza pandemic of 1918-20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19
Premachandra Athukorala looks for lessons relevant to the current COVID-19 crisis in the scattered multi-disciplinary literature on the Spanish Flu pandemic of a century ago.
How well can the world’s poor protect themselves from the new coronavirus?
Brown finds that only 6 per cent of the poorest 40 per cent in developing countries have adequate home environments for protection from COVID-19, falling to virtually zero in sub-Saharan Africa.
Long-term impacts of the giant wave: The case of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and child development in Indonesia
Riswandi presents his PhD research on the long-term impacts of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh city
India's health and economic challenges posed by COVID-19
This seminar will review how India is meeting the dual health and economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 virus.
Indonesia and the international community: 50 years of economic cooperation
McCawley reviews the efforts of the Asian Development Bank in Indonesia, as part of one of the largest sustained development cooperation programs in post-war history.
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