IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva & Ian Goldin in conversation: "Roadmap to the Sustainable Development Goals"
The global pandemic has derailed progress toward the SDGs as developing countries now balance long-term investments in health, education, roads, electricity, and water with spending to protect lives and livelihoods.
Bringing the SDGs within reach by 2030 will take a global effort from all stakeholders.
Bringing the SDGs within reach by 2030 will take a global effort from all stakeholders.
Philosophical and Theological Sources of ‘The Common Good’
The first lecture in The D'Arcy Lectures series exploring the concept of Common Good through the three lenses of Aristotle’s philosophy, Catholic teaching, and contemporary political liberalism.
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The UN CESCR's General Comment 25 on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress
One of the remarkable aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been how brilliantly science has responded: in tracing the genome of the virus, in understanding how it spreads and in developing vaccines and medical treatments for COVID-19. Yet these scientific gains have not been available to all. Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees that: “everyone has the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.” And, of course, this right extends to all scientific discoveries.
The way forward for carbon pricing
This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.
Speakers: Ian Parry (IMF), Michael Mehling (University of Strathclyde; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Daniel Hardy (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussant: Franziska Funke (Oxford Martin School)
For further information please visit: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/way-forward-carbon-pricing
Speakers: Ian Parry (IMF), Michael Mehling (University of Strathclyde; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Daniel Hardy (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussant: Franziska Funke (Oxford Martin School)
For further information please visit: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/way-forward-carbon-pricing
The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
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: https://gwu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef0b38a8b995e449ee9ab45f5&id=458e2490b4&e=cb8c070bb2
Warm Bonds or Functional Transactions? Being Neighbours During Ethnic Pogroms in India
Stories of courage abound during mass violence. Of people saving their neighbours and giving them refuge at a cost to their own lives. However, perpetrators of mass violence are often neighbours, e.g. anti-Jewish pogroms, genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, and anti-minority violence in South Asia. Neighbour-on-neighbour violence effaces the norms and values that underpin neighbourliness as a social practice given that, during community emergencies, prior hostility does not preclude cooperation between neighbours.
Horizontal and Intersecting Wealth Inequalities in Mozambique – 1997 to 2017
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: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kdeGqrDsuGdPkph4654bDSSzBglldtA9n
From a rebel to consumer and now a digital user: the changing role of students in British university governance
In this talk, we will focus on the changing role of students in British higher education governance. We will review three societal periods: the welfare state, the market society and the digital economy. Within the past three decades, the student has shifted from a partner with significant involvement in governing universities, to a consumer whose influence reflects in self-interest enacted via choice and consumer rights.
The China question: Managing risks and maximising benefits from partnership in higher education and research
How best to engage China is the first major foreign policy challenge for a post-Brexit UK and a critical question for the future of Britain’s global and open knowledge economy.
China is set to overtake the US to become both the world’s biggest spender on R&D and the UK’s most significant research partner, raising pressing questions for policymakers at a time of rising geopolitical tensions.
China is set to overtake the US to become both the world’s biggest spender on R&D and the UK’s most significant research partner, raising pressing questions for policymakers at a time of rising geopolitical tensions.