Talks


2025

November 20-22.- The 30th Annual LACEA Meeting 2025, Recife, Brazil

The 30th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) meeting will take place in Recife, Brazil and will be hosted by Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). The LACEA conference is one of the most prestigious regional conferences in economics. It takes place yearly in Latin American cities and features 500 and 600 participants and several invited and keynote speakers. Last year, the conference was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, and had the following keynote speakers: Raquel Fernández (NYU), Bo Honoré (Princeton University), Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA), Adriana Kugler (Federal Reserve), Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University), James A. Robinson (University of Chicago), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago), Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania). Previous meetings were held in Bogotá in 2023 and Lima in 2022. This will be the first LACEA conference in Brazil outside of the Rio-São Paulo corridor.

More information will be announced soon.

Website

 

November 10-21.- COP30, Belém, Brazil

The Government of Brazil will host the thirtieth Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 30), with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition to effectively tackle the global challenge of climate change.

More information will be announced soon.

Website

 

June 16-19.- 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Bergen, Norway

Innovation and the Environment: How can we enhance resilience to climate change?; How can we design smart conservation policies?; and, How can we promote innovation and diffusion of clean energy?

Programme

 

April 7-8.- G²LM|LIC Research Conference

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April 1-2.- IFC Annual Research Conference in collaboration with INSEAD

The 3rd IFC Annual Research Conference focusing on 'The Net Zero Transition and economic development – A challenge or opportunity?' aims to bring together academics, business leaders and policy makers to discuss what the Net Zero Transition means for developing and emerging economies. Will it be an additional barrier on the path to higher incomes and growth where they have to choose between diverting scarce investment resource to cleaner alternatives instead of options that deliver faster economic growth? Or will it be possible to chart a development path that achieves faster and cleaner growth than in the past exploiting new technologies and leapfrogging the legacy technologies on which advanced economies relied in the past?

More information to be announced soon.

 

January 12.- BRAC University Public Lecture on Poverty Trap and Climate Resilience: Can Productive Safety Net Deliver?

Robin Burgess, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), delivered a public talk on whether and how productive safety net programs could tackle the poverty trap and build climate resilience.

The session delved into the transformative power of the ultra-poor graduation model, exploring how it strengthened social safety net programs to combat poverty and the adverse effects of climate change.

Slides, Website


2024

December 21.- Indian Statistical Institute Conference, India

Innovation and the Environment. Slides

 

December 11.- Bangladesh Round Table

Innovation, Poverty and Climate Change: Towards a Nationwide Social Protection Program for Bangladesh. Slides

 

June 7.- LEEP Research Workshop, Exeter University

Innovation and the Environment. Slides

 

March 12-14.- Nobel Symposium

Microdevelopment Research in the Last 20 Years. Hosted in Stellenboch by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Programme, Video

 

March 8.- UCSD-WB Conference on Climate Adaptation

Join us for a workshop organized by the Office of the Chief Economist for the South Asia Region of the World Bank and the 21st Century India Center at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. This in-person event aims to spark discussions on climate change adaptation in South Asia and elsewhere, bringing together experts and academia in a quest to address one of the most pressing challenges for many emerging market and developing economies.

By showcasing cutting-edge research and exploring innovative solutions, we aim to pave the way for resilient communities and sustainable futures in South Asia and beyond.

Slides, Programme

 

Feb 22.- Zambia Economic Growth Forum

Slides, Programme


2023

 

Dec 7-8.- Chicago Coase Winter conference

Presentations on “Weathering poverty”

Slides

 
 
 

OCTOBER 19-20.- Keynote on Job Variety: IGC/Yale Firms/Trade/Development conference, Yale and LSE

EGC and the International Growth Centre (IGC) are hosting a two-day conference on October 19-20, 2023 on the theme of “Firms, Trade and Development.”

Slides, Programme

 

Sep 7.- LABOR/PUBLIC ECONOMICS WORKSHOP, Yale

Presentations on “Ray of Hope? China and the rise of Solar Energy”

Slides, Programme

 

Aug 16.- BRAC: Innovation and Climate Change, Bangladesh

It is becoming ever more apparent that the way out of the tension between growth and climate change is innovation. These innovations will not only have to slow the emissions that are driving climate change but also protect people from the unfolding damages. This lecture will shed light on three questions. (1) How can we enhance resilience to climate change? (2) How can we design smart conservation policies? (3) How can we promote innovation and diffusion of clean energy? Research and policy in these areas is critical to achieving a balance between human activity and the natural environment. Slides

 

Aug 14-15.- SITE conference, Stanford

"Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy" Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference, 'Politically Feasible Environmental and Energy Policy' session, Stanford, CA. Website

 

July 24.- NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA.

"Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy" NBER Environmental and Energy Economics Summer Institute Conference, Cambridge, MA. Website

 

June 27. - Berkeley Energy Institute Energy camp, Berkeley

"China and the Diffusion of Solar Energy". Hosted by the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley.

Slides

 

June 23. - JPAL@20 Science and the Fight Against Poverty, Paris

Science and the Fight against Poverty: How Far Have We Come in 20 Years and What's Next? Hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Collège de France, Paris. Website, Slides

 

May 5. - London Consensus Programme, LSE

Hosted by the LSE School of Public Policy. Programme, Slides

 

April 1-2. - Keynote: The Wealth of People, JADE-CEPR-TIME Conference on Economic Development, Tokyo, Japan

The conference is being organised jointly by the Japanese Association for Development Economics (JADE), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Trinity Impact Evaluation Research Centre (TIME) at Trinity College Dublin and the Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE)

Website, Slides

 

March 11. - CESifo, Keynote presentation, Munich

Conference on Energy and Climate Economics. Hosted in Munich by CESifo Area. Website

 

March 1. - Why Do People Stay Poor? Lecture, LSE

Hosted in London by STICERD, BRAC, and the LSE Deparment of Economics. Website

 

Feb 24. - J-PAL CONVENING, London

Hosted in London by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Google.org. Programme


2022

Dec 8. - Coase Project Conference, Chicago

Tropical Deforestation Survey (presented with Allan Hsiao). Hosted by the University of Chicago. Website , Slides

 

Dec 6. - University of Chicago Seminar, Chicago

"Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy" Hosted by the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago. Website

 

Oct 25. - J-PAL South-Asia Policy Conference, Indonesia

Emerging Challenges in the Environment Landscape. Hosted in Jakarta by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the University of Indonesia and the Australian Government. Programme