Welcome to our seminars channel, where we share the latest research on development, innovation and governance with a focus on emerging
economies.
Our seminar series bridges the sometimes artificial divide made between academic research, and policy formulation and implementation. The complex processes of globalization require a proactive and knowledge-based approach to policymaking that is supported by evidence-based research.
The seminar speakers are renowned international specialists and seasoned policy practitioners with first-hand experience in integrating multiple perspectives into day to day decision-making.
Upcoming seminars
2012-05-24
Trade Facilitation
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12:30
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Conference Room
Dr Andrew Grainger is an experienced trade facilitation practitioner and academic. He is currently based at Nottingham University Business School where he is a Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In previous roles Andrew worked as Deputy Director at SITPRO, the former UK trade facilitation agency, and Secretary for EUROPRO, the umbrella body for European trade facilitation organisations. On a number of occasions he has worked as staff consultant with the World Bank Group. In a free-lance capacity he has also supplied consulting services to the European Commission, the European Parliament, UK’s HM Revenue and Customs, UK’s Businesslink.gov.uk programme, the government of Lao PDR, the government of Ethiopia, as well as a number of private sector companies and research organisations.
Andrew is also an editor for the World Customs Journal and an active member in the International Network of Customs Universities. Ongoing research projects include an investigation into the risks and resilience of UK’s ports as well as the trade compliance costs in the UK’s meat trade. His PhD thesis on Supply Chain Management and Trade Facilitation was awarded the Palgrave Macmillan Prize in Maritime Economics and Logistics 2005-2008 for best PhD thesis. Andrew is married with one son. He is fluent in English and German.
Recent publications include:
Grainger, A. and G. McLinden (forthcoming). “Trade facilitation and development” in Handbook of Trade Policy for Development. A. Lukauskas, R. M. Stern and G. Zanini, Oxford University Press.
Grainger, A. (2012). “Trade Facilitation” in Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy. Ken Heydon and Stephen Woolcock. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Grainger, A (2011) “Trade Facilitation: a conceptual review” Journal of World Trade, Vo.45 No.1, February
Grainger, A (2011) “Developing the case for trade facilitation in practice”, World Customs Journal, Volume 5, Issue2, September
Grainger, A. (2010). “The Role of the Private Sector in Border Management Reform” in Border Management Modernization. G. McLinden, E. Fanta, D. Widdowson and T. Doyle. Washington, World Bank: 157-174.
Grainger, A (2008) “Customs and Trade Facilitation: from concepts to implementation” World Customs Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April
Grainger, A (2007) “Supply Chain Security: adding to a complex environment” World Customs Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, October
2012-05-31
The Risks of Innovation: Are Innovating Firms Less Likely to Die?
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12:30
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Conference Room
Caroline Paunov is an Economist at the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD. Her current work is on the impacts of the global crisis on innovation and how innovation can be harnessed better for inclusive development. Her research focuses also on the impacts of foreign direct investment, import competition and intermediate inputs from abroad on firm performance, innovation and employment using a variety of tools including micro-econometric analysis. Previously she worked for the World Bank, the United Nations and cooperated on various projects for the public sectors in Brazil, Spain and Germany. She holds an B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oxford, an MSc from the University Pompeu Fabra and a PhD in Economics from the University of London.
2012-06-07
Conditions for the most robust multidimensional poverty comparisons using counting measures
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12:30
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Conference Room
Gaston Yalonetzky is a Lecturer at the Leeds University Business School, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. His research interests are in the fields of economic development, socio-economic mobility, group inequality and measurement of wellbeing.
2012-06-21
Territorial Governance and Planning in the new Egypt – from centralized dictatorship to decentralization?
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12:30
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Conference Room
John Loughlin is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Previously he was Professor of European Politics in Cardiff University and has held Visiting Professorships and Fellowships in Oxford, Paris, Princeton, Brussels, Umeå, Sweden, Florence and several other places. He has carried out extensive research on territorial politics in Europe and is now working on a project on Religion and Politics. He is Director of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund's College which carries out research in the field of Catholic Social Teaching and the relationship between Christianity and society.
He has published twenty books and over a hundred articles and book chapters on various aspects of territorial governance as well as on religion and politics. He has conducted extensive research on territorial politics and has acted as an advisor to the UK government, the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, the French Senate, and the EU’s Committee of the Regions. He has been an expert for the Council of Europe and UN-Habitat. In 2010, the French Government appointed him an Officier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of his contribution to the spread of the French language and culture and his contribution to research on European politics. In 2009, the University of Umeå in Sweden awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his research on European politics and territorial governance. He is an Academician of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHistS) and of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). In 2006, he was a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Sciences.
2012-06-28
Fixed cost, variable cost and the markup
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12:30
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Conference Room
Bertrand Koebel is professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management at University of Strasbourg, and member of the research lab BETA. He joined the University of
Strasbourg in 2004 after several doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships at Mannheim,Magdeburg, and London. Bertrand Koebel's research is related to production analysis (duality, imperfect competition, technical change); econometrics (demand system specification, inequality constraints, nonlinear models); and labour economics (impact of technological change and international trade on skill groups)
