The outlook for climatic changes in the African Sahel is bleak: spectacular temperature increases and further rainfall variability will continue to challenge the livelihoods of millions of inhabitants - sedentary and nomadic - that live in this vast region. These environmental impacts are usually understood as complicating long-standing problems of weak statehood, economic marginalization and physical insecurity and risk rendering the Sahel more prone to jihadist violence and various forms of migration.

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online. Combining disparate data sources for improved poverty prediction and mapping (Neeti Pokhriyal and Damien Christophe Jacques)

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The French 'banlieues' (suburbs) are always presented in national and international media as a problem. Indeed, they are said to concentrate social and economic disadvantages, are ghettos for migrants and people from minority backgrounds, their inhabitants tend to participate less in institutional politics, riots happen every 5 years, etc. It is nevertheless striking that so little is done - research-wise - to try to grasp the perspective of the people who live there, and especially of the youth.

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The UK has the most extreme regional inequalities in the OECD and one of the most centralised governance and financial systems all controlled from London.

How can the finance and banking world help level the playing field and shift all focus and control away from London, When it comes to finance and banking - why are they so important to levelling up? What has gone wrong with local access to finance? And what is needed to resolve this problem?

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