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Innovation for Sustainable Development

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Upcoming Events

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Seminar

Varieties of Middle-income Trap: A Latin American Perspective on Structural Change Trajectories and External Demand Constraints

MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: UNU-MERIT's UNESCO Chair on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development for Latin America will host a research seminar featuring Prof. Dr. Carlos Bianchi from the Institute of Economics at the University of the Republic (UDELAR) in Uruguay.

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Seminar

How big does a 'big-push' poverty intervention need to be? Evidence from experimental variation in the size of asset transfers

MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: The UNU-MERIT Seminar Series kicks off the new academic year with a seminar featuring Christine Valente, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

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Conference

Are we using the right metrics? Towards a research agenda for measuring how innovation drives the SDGs in Africa

NEW YORK & ONLINE: UNU-MERIT researcher Hugo Hollanders will be speaking at the Science Summit of the 79th United Nations General Assembly, in a session on 13 September.

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Degree Defense

PhD Defence: Understanding the Drivers of Income Inequality in China: A Multilevel Distributional Microsimulation Analysis

PhD defence at Maastricht University. Abstract willl follow.

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