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BRICLab is pleased to be joined by three journalists from Brazil, Ana Rosa Alves, Marcos Mortari, and Natalia Portinari, for the 2022 year.
On October 27, 2021, the Columbia Global Centers - Rio de Janeiro and the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG) co-hosted the event "Brazil: Possible paths towards Economic Justice", in which Brazilian academics and experts discussed economic policy alternatives – and their fiscal and political feasibility – capable of simultaneously promoting economic growth and greater social equity in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period in Brazil, with an emphasis on reform and expansion of social protection networks. CGEG Director Jan Svejnar gave the introductory remarks and co-hosted…
Corruption and the Lava Jato Scandal in Latin America brings together key international and interdisciplinary perspectives to shine new light on Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash, Latin America’s largest corruption scandal to date.
In the online panel of the 24th Forum 2000 Conference on October 14th, titled “Can we take advantage of the disaster? The economic priorities for a New World”, Jan Svejnar, Professor and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG) and Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University discuss.
BRICLab is pleased to be joined by three journalists from Brazil, Murilo Salviano and Breno Pires for the 2020 year.
On 31 October, the Center on Global Economic Governance hosted Daniel Cohen, head of the economics department of the Ecole normale supérieure and a professor and founding member of the Paris School of Economics.
In several countries across the globe, including the US, socialism is increasingly forming a part of the political rhetoric.
CGEG Faculty Associate Katharina Pistor has published a new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. This book argues that the law selectively “codes” certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital – and lawyers are the keepers of the code. Pistor describes how they pick and choose among different legal systems and legal devices for the ones that best serve their clients’ needs, and how techniques that were first perfected centuries ago…
Columbia SIPA faculty will visit the National School of Public Administration in Zagreb, Croatia, to conduct a program on European monetary and banking union May 13 and 14.
BRICLab is pleased to be joined by two journalists from Brazil, Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Juliana Gragnani, for the 2019 year.