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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Anthropogenic Material Cycles and Sustainable Development
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Anthropogenic Material Cycles and Sustainable Development 	Abstract: Modern society relies on the use of more diverse materials and the growing amount of each material\, and results in several relevant sustainability challenges including exhaustion of natural resources\, over-generation and emissions of solid wastes\, and carbon emissions from materials industries. In this talk\, I will use some cases to demonstrate how human activities\, from urbanization\, industrialization\, trade\, to the pursue for carbon-neutral society\, rely on the use of materials and drive the cycles of materials in the anthroposphere. I argue that our sustainable future will heavily rely on the close-loop cycles of materials\, and more attentions should be paid to the challenges in sustainability of physical materials and resources.Dr. Wei-Qiang Chen is a professor of Resources and Urban Sustainability at the Institute of Urban Environment\, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained his bachelor and PhD degrees in Environmental Science and Engineering from the School of Environment at Tsinghua University\, Beijing\, and worked at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies during 2010-2015. His research focuses on material-energy nexus\, sustainable management of materials and urban sustainability. His studies have appeared in PNAS\, Nature Communications\, Environmental science and Technology\, and other first-level journals. He served in the board of the International Society for Industrial Ecology during 2018/01-2020/21\, and was the founding president of the Chinese Society for Industrial Ecology built in 2015. He is now serving as associate editor for the journals Resources\, Conservation\, and Recycling and Journal of Industrial Ecology. 	Please register in advance. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-anthropogenic-material-cycles-and-sustainable-development/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Growth Lab
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?
DESCRIPTION:Title: Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?Please register in advance. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.Abstract: We study the relationship between international trade and development in a model where countries differ in their capability\, goods differ in their complexity\, and capability growth is a function of a country’s pattern of specialization. Theoretically\, we show that it is possible for international trade to increase capability growth in all countries and\, in turn\, to push all countries up the development ladder. This occurs because: (i) the average complexity of a country’s industry mix raises its capability growth\, and (ii) foreign competition is tougher in less complex sectors for all countries. Empirically\, we provide causal evidence consistent with (i) using the entry of countries into the World Trade Organization as an instrumental variable for other countries’ patterns of specialization. The opposite of (ii)\, however\, appears to hold in the data. Through the lens of our model\, these two empirical observations imply dynamic welfare losses from trade that are small for the median country\, but pervasive and large among a number of African countries.Bio: Arnaud Costinot is Professor of Economics at MIT. He received his B.S. from Ecole Polytechnique in 2000\, his M.A. from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2001\, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005. Professor Costinot has received numerous awards including the Prix Edmond Malinvaud\, the Kiel Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs\, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society\, a Faculty Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research. He also serves on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics. Specializing in international trade\, he has published the American Economic Review\, Econometrica\, the Journal of Political Economy\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and the Review of Economic Studies. His current research focuses on trade policy and the measurement of the welfare gains from trade.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-globalization-and-the-ladder-of-development-pushed-to-the-top-or-held-at-the-bottom/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
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