Here’s what happened at the SASE 2023 conference

Lessons from the three-day event in Rio de Janeiro By Mercedes Menéndez, Carlo Pietrobelli and Jorge Valverde From 20 to 22 July 2023, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) met for a three-day conference in Rio de Janeiro. There, the UNU-MERIT UNESCO Chair on Scien...
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Global value chains: An expert’s thoughts on their development strategies

Six questions with UNESCO Chair speaker and Duke University professor Gary Gereffi Few understand global value and supply chains – let alone the differences between them – more deeply than Gary Gereffi, a Duke University professor who has been studying our global productio...
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What are the macroeconomic challenges of the green transition in emerging nations?

UNU-MERIT UNESCO Chair event examines investment strategies for climate and development goals When it comes to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, who will finance the investments needed to do so, and will the funding sources be domestic or foreign, public or private, or f...
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Automation technologies: A challenge or opportunity for development in Latin America?

In the second webinar of the UNESCO Chair series on ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America’, Dr. Pascual Restrepo (Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University) gave a presentation on the ‘Origins and implic...
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Training Programme on Productive Development and Competitiveness in Honduras

In October 2022, UNU-MERIT’s UNESCO Chair on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development for Latin America and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) delivered a Training Programme on Productive Development and Competitiveness in Honduras. The training pro...
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Should STI policies in Latin America give priority to social inclusion?

During the first webinar of the UNESCO Chair series on ”Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America”, Prof. Gabriela Dutrénit  (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México) gave a presentation on “STI Policy, dev...
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Addressing the main challenges on Science, Technology & Innovation Policies for Latin America

As part of UNU-MERIT’s UNESCO Chair on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development for Latin America, we proudly announce our series of webinars on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America. The meetings ...
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UNU-MERIT’s UNESCO Chair to Deliver Training for Policymakers in Honduras

This training program will take place in a hybrid format, including a series of webinars and a face-to-face course in Tegucigalpa between the 24th and 26th of October. The training program is oriented toward Honduras’s high-level decision-makers, including policymakers at the na...
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