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SUMMARY:CID 2018 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Interested in the cutting edge research in International Development? Here’s your chance to meet CID faculty\, research fellows and staff and learn about student programs and opportunities at CID’s Annual Open House.	 	Speakers: Matt Andrews\, Faculty Associate at Building State Capability (BSC) Program; Andrea Carranza\, CID Acting Executive Director; Rohini Pande\, Co-Director for Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Program; Ricardo Hausmann\, CID Director
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-2018-open-house/
LOCATION:Democracy Lab AB (R414 AB) – Rubenstein 4th Floor
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Understanding Income Gaps within Mexico: Place-Specific vs. Individual Factors
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos\, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University 	About the talk: The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors. Yet\, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion\, the schooling gap has shrunk while the income gap has widened\, and we find no evidence indicating that Chiapas indigenes are worse-off than their likes elsewhere in Mexico. We explore a different hypothesis. Based on census data\, we calculate the economic complexity of Mexico’s municipalities\, a measure of knowledge agglomeration. Economic complexity explains a larger fraction of the income gap than any individual factor. Our results suggest that chiapanecos are not the problem; the problem is Chiapas. \nAbout the speaker: Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. 	At CID\, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies\, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014\, he has been involved in projects at the national level in Mexico\, Panama\, and Venezuela\, and at the sub-national level in Mexico in the states of Chiapas\, Baja California\, Tabasco and Campeche; and the city of Hermosillo at Sonora state. He has also performed as project manager in the projects leading to the build-up of the Mexican Atlas of Economic Complexity\, and the Peruvian Atlas of Economic Complexity. 	Before joining the field of international development\, Miguel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America\, performing as Director of Finance for the Cisneros Group of Companies (1997-2003)\, Head of Corporate Finance for Mercantil Servicios Financieros (2005-2007)\, and Business Vice-President for Sony Pictures and Entertainment Latin America (2008-2009). At that point\, he decided to switch tracks and get involved in development economics. 	He holds two Master of Science degrees in International Finance and Trade (2011) and Economics (2012) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2014)\, and a Ph.D. in Economics at Universidad de Barcelona (2016). He was the head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-understanding-income-gaps-within-mexico-place-specific-vs-individual-factors/
LOCATION:Democracy Lab A (R-414 A) – Rubenstein Building 4th Floor
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180921T120000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Can Brexit be Overturned with Other Trade and FDI Agreements?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: María C. Latorre\, member of the European Commission’s group of experts in International Trade; Professor\, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 	About the talk: With less than nine months before the UK is scheduled to depart from the EU\, much uncertainty surrounds the future EU and UK relationship. It is clear\, however\, that Brexit will increase barriers between the EU and the UK which will have harmful effects for both economies. According to the majority of economic studies and to our own estimations\, Brexit will be far more damaging for the UK than for the European Union (EU). From the economic point of view\, it seems less harmful for both to be able to negotiate a soft Brexit with rather small barriers. However\, for political reasons the EU may want to deter other nations from following the UK’s path and may want to negotiate a self-damaging hard Brexit. 	The negative impact of trade and foreign direct investment seems to be more important than UK’s contributions to the EU budget (with a maximum net fiscal saving of -0.53% of UK’s GDP)\, or reductions in the flows of migrants. Since massive deportation seems to be ruled out after the pre-agreement of December 8 (2018)\, the impact of migration would not be so harmful.  	UK may try to strike other trade or Foreign Direct Investment agreements with other countries outside the EU. We have studied different policy alternatives for UK and also for the Rest of the European Union (REU) to counteract the harmful impact of Brexit. In particular\, we have analyzed a unilateral tariff elimination in the UK\, different FDI agreements of this economy with China\, Japan and India and a comprehensive trade and FDI agreement with the US (similar to TTIP). While the FDI agreements have a negligible impact on the UK\, we find some scope in the unilateral tariff elimination to raise wages and capital remuneration in that economy. When analyzing a UK-US TTIP agreement we find it insufficient to compensate the negative impacts of Brexit. By contrast\, in most of the possible Brexit and TTIP joint scenarios\, TTIP could be useful for the REU to overturn the limited negative effects it experiences with Brexit. 	About the speaker: María C. Latorre is currently a member of the group of experts in international trade of the European Commission. She has also conducted other consulting projects for the World Bank and the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness. Maria has been a Research Scholar at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. She has held research visiting positions in the US International Trade Commission\, the CEPII and the University of Nottingham. Her papers have been published in academic journals such as World Development\, Journal of Policy Modeling\, Economic Modelling and China Economic Review among others. 	  	This event is co-sponsored by: 	 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-can-brexit-be-overturned-with-other-trade-and-fdi-agreements/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R429) – Rubenstein 4th Floor
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: The Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela - A Conversation with José Miguel Vivanco
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: José Miguel Vivanco\, Executive Director of Americas division\, Human Rights Watch 	About the talk: The current exodus of Venezuelans has generated the largest migration crisis of its kind in recent Latin American history\, as Human Rights Watch has pointed out in its most recent report. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2014\, according to the United Nations\, and many others have left whose cases have not been registered by authorities. Venezuelans are fleeing their country for multiple reasons\, which includes: Severe shortages of medicine\, medical supplies\, and food; extremely high rates of violent crime; hyperinflation; and thousands of arbitrary arrests\, torture and other abuses against detainees. The director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division\, Jose Miguel Vivanco\, will talk about this exodus\, its causes and consequences\, and the Need for a Regional Response to face the crisis.  	About the speaker: José Miguel Vivanco\, director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division\, is a general expert on Latin America. Before joining Human Rights Watch\, Vivanco worked as an attorney for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the Organization of American States (OAS).  In 1990\, he founded the Center for Justice and International Law\, an NGO that files complaints before international human rights bodies. Vivanco has also been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. He has published articles in leading American and Latin American newspapers and is interviewed regularly for television news. A Chilean\, Vivanco studied law at the University of Chile and Salamanca Law School in Spain and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. 	This event is being co-sponsored by:
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-venezuela-a-conversation-with-jose-miguel-vivanco/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room (ADR) – Taubman\, 5th Floor
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