5 days, state-of-the-art research, top experts In June 2023, UNU-MERIT co-organised a summer school on economic fitness and complexity (EFC) together with the Enrico Fermi Research Centre in Rome (CREF). The five-day event brought together 26 speakers – from as far afield as Peking University in China and Waseda Business School in Japan – and was a great success, attracting 43 participants and more than 100 applications from around the world. Now, we’re pleased to share that the seco...
Michelle González Amador – who is currently completing her full-time PhD at UNU-MERIT – has been involved with the multi-institutional initiative Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) for several years and was previously the organiser of the Latin America and Caribbean Working Group. One of the projects that emerged from this working group was a Summer of Science Program, the goal of which is to support female students from Indigenous communities in Mexico as they design and execu...
By Victor Osei Kwadwo, researcher and lecturer at UNU-MERIT In March 2023, three friends and I – all of us graduates of UNU-MERIT’s PhD programme – were thrilled when we stumbled upon a research fellowship opportunity in Africa, our home continent. Unfortunately, it turned out that the call was for individual three-month research stays. Our lives (some of us being parents) and newly launched careers simply wouldn’t bend that far. But, as any good scholar knows, constraints breed creativity...
Human capital is a hot topic, key to the pursuit of economic growth and at the heart of major public policies, from the UN’s Millennium Development Goals to the EU’s 2020 Strategy. But how effective are these policies? Run by leading scholars and former ministers, from 14-18 July 2014, this summer school will give participants the latest knowledge and skills. It will focus on several techniques to measure the impact of public policies on human capital in various settings. Key aspects...