Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Institutions and Development - James Robinson (Harvard University) The main topic of this course is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of...

Die Welthungerhilfe, das GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies und der Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg laden gemeinsam zum Symposium „Afrika – Befreiung aus der Armutsfalle? Ein Dialog zwischen Politik, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft“ ein. Diskutiert werden...