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UNDP/BDP Levy Conference: Unpaid Work and the Economy ;Gender, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals
Organized by Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York October 1–3, 2005 The purpose of convening this conference was to share views, research, and methodologies from around the world, on women’s unpaid work and its […]
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Employment Guarantee Policies: Theory and Practice
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York October 13–14, 2006 This conference focused on those government policy initiatives that can create a safety net through public service employment for individuals who are ready, willing, and able to work but find themselves in an economic environment that does not offer employment opportunities. Unemployment and […]
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Time Use and Economic Well-Being
This conference was part of the Levy Institute’s research and policy program of the distribution of income and wealth. Its purpose was to cover issues and topics related to time allocation. Presentations focused on utilizing time-use data in investigating the determinants of time allocation by gender and other demographic and economic characteristics (for example, family-type […]
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Government Spending on the Elderly
The aging of the American population will be a primary domestic public policy issue during the next decades. According to Census Bureau projections, the proportion of the elderly in the total population will increase from its 2002 level of under 13 percent to slightly more than 16 percent by 2020. Concomitantly, the proportion of the […]
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Gender Equality, Tax Policies, and Tax Reform in Comparative Perspective
This symposium focused on the gender dimensions of tax policy and tax reforms in countries at different levels of development. Topics included gender biases in direct taxation (including biases in individual and joint filing) and the structure of exemptions, deductions, and allowances; gender biases in indirect taxation, including VAT and excise or sales taxes; the […]
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16th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Global Imbalances Prospects for the U.S. and World Economies
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York April 19–20, 2007 The 2007 Hyman P. Minsky Conference drew upon public discussions on the United States and world economies in the context of prevailing economic trends and their implications. The presenters—top policymakers, economists, and analysts—addressed such topics as fiscal and monetary policies for continued growth […]
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17th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Credit, Markets, and the Real Economy Is the Financial System Working?
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York April 17–18, 2008 The focus of this year’s conference was the current economic and financial crisis in the United States and its effects on the world economy. Topics included the causes and consequences of the “Minsky moment”; the impact of the credit crunch on the economic […]
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18th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Meeting the Challenges of Financial Crisis
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Ford Foundation New York City April 16–17, 2009 On April 16 and 17, top policymakers, economists, and analysts gathered at the Ford Foundation’s headquarters in New York City to offer their insights and policy guidelines on the extraordinary […]
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9th GEM-IWG International Conference: Gender and the Global Economic Crisis
Co-organized by the Government of Mexico, GEM-IWG, UNDESA/UNDAW, UNDP, UNIFEM, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and IDRC (Canada), with additional support from the Ford Foundation (U.S.A.), and with the participation of the Government of Canada ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters New York City July 13–14, 2009 On July 13 and 14, the 9th GEM-IWG […]
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Employment Guarantee Policies: Responding to the Current Economic Crisis and Contributing to Long-Term Development
A Collaborative Project of the United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC), and the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), in Partnership with Levy Economics Institute Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York June 22–23, 2009 With poverty, inequality, and unemployment trending upward worldwide, job creation, especially for […]
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The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar and Conference
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Levy Institute Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, New York June 19–29, 2010 The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is pleased to announce that it will hold a Minsky summer seminar in June 2010. The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both […]
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19th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: After the Crisis—Planning a New Financial Structure
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford foundation Ford Foundation New York City April 14–16, 2010 From his extensive research, Hyman Minsky was convinced that economic systems are prone to financial instability and crisis, and urged that lessons be learned from the crisis of 1929–1933 so […]