Events
2021
January
13/01/21
27/01/21
- The Illusive Quest for Structural Transformation in Africa: Will China Make a Difference?
Alemayehu Geda (Addis Ababa University)
February
03/02/21
- A Global Perspective on Next Generation Central Banking
Shamshad Akhtar (Karandaaz Pakistan), Fernanda Nechio (Banco Central do Brasil), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
10/02/21
- Wealth Inequality and the Cost of the Poverty Gap in Arab Countries amidst COVID
Khalid Abu-Ismail (UN-ESCWA Beirut), Vladimir HLASNY (UN-ESCWA Beirut), Randa Alami (SOAS)
March
19/03/21
- Net Zero Central Banking: A New Phase in Greening the Financial System
Baroness Minouche Shafik (LSE), Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva (BIS), Sarah Breeden (Bank of England), Nick Robins (LSE), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
22/03/21
- Greening the Financial System: Policy Options for Monetary and Financial Authorities in Latin America
Rafael Del Villar Alrich (Banco de México), Mariana Escobar Uribe (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia), Carolina Flores Tapia (Commission for the Financial Market Chile), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
30/03/21
- Why Climate Transition Risks are Macro-critical: The IMF and Enabling a Green Recovery
Sara Jane Ahmed (V20), Niranjali Amerasinghe (ActionAid USA), Irene Monasterolo (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Sargon Nissan (Recourse), Maju Varghese (Center for Financial Accountability), Johannes Wiegand (IMF)
May
12/05/21
- Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Current US Monetary Policy
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) and Nicolás Águila (Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas, CIEPP)
June
02/06/21
- Why Ghana Doesn't Have the Full Value of its Cocoa Beans - And How This Could Change
Sophie van Huellen (SOAS) and Fuad Mohammed Abubakar (Cocoa Marketing Company GH Ltd)
16/06/21
- Climate-neutral Central Banking: How the European System of Central Banks Can Support the Transition to Net-zero
Simon Dikau (LSE), Soledad Nuñez (Banco de España), Nick Robins (LSE), Dirk Schoenmaker (Rotterdam School of Management), Laurence Tubiana (European Climate Foundation), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
16/06/21
- Feasible Anti-Corruption and the Work of SOAS-ACE
Mushtaq Khan (SOAS)
28/06/21
- Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery: Securing Private Sector Participation and Policy Space for Sustainable Development
Shamshad Akhtar (Karandaaz Pakistan), Alicia Bárcena Ibarra (CEPAL), Kevin P. Gallagher (Boston U), Stephany Griffith Jones (Columbia U), Louis Kasekende (MEFMI), Moritz Kraemer (SOAS), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia U), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
30/06/21
- Inclusive Green Finance
Laura Ramos (Alliance for Financial Inclusion), Shamshad Akhtar (Karandaaz Pakistan), Ulrich Volz (SOAS University of London)
July
02/07/21
- From Rapid Relief to a Sustainable Recovery: Reflecting on a Year of Responses to COVID-19 by Central Banks and Financial Supervisors
Mangal Goswami (SEACEN), Claire Healey (E3G), Kate Levick (E3G), Ronadol Numnonda (Bank of Thailand), Nick Robins (LSE), Ulrich Volz (SOAS), Dimitri Zenghelis (University of Cambridge)
September
01/09/21
- Biodiversity Finance: The Frontier of Green Finance
Odile Conchou (Convention on Biological Diversity), Marianne Haahr (Green Digital Finance Alliance), Alice Hughes (CAS), Christoph Nedopil (CUFE), Robert-Alexandre Poujade (BNPPAM), Ulrich Volz (SOAS), Simon Zadek (F4B), Tenke Zoltani (Zoscales Partners)
October
12/10/21
- Critical Reflections on Middle East Economics
Hassan Hakimian (HBKU and SOAS)
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The knowledge of Middle Eastern economies as an autonomous field is of relatively recent origins and has evolved in uneven ways. Unlike some other regions, which have played a more active role in the genesis or evolution of development theory and practice (notably Latin America), the contribution of Middle Eastern economies has been more limited and to a large extent confined to recent decades.
November
03/11/21
- How China Escaped Shock Therapy - Implications for today
Isabella Weber
04/11/21
04/11/21
17/11/21
- The Effects of Financial Inclusion on Poverty
Thereza Balliester Reis
30/11/21
- Profit, Power and Patents in Late 18th Century Capitalism (Lecture 1)
Professor Mary O'Sullivan
December
01/12/21
- Capitalism and Crisis: the Real Problem of the Great Depression (Lecture 2)
Professor Mary O'Sullivan
15/12/21
- A People's Green New Deal (TBC)
Max Ajl