Announcements
Welcome to our virtual bulletin board, where we share the latest announcements on things such as how our alumni are doing, opportunities, really important news or research, free stuff, and what's going on with us in Williamstown.
Let us know if you have any announcements to share by emailing Chrispine at crl2 (at) williams (dot) edu, and we'll put them up!
Events, Opportunities, and Resources
Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter Sign up form The Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter which gets released monthly and sent over email to those signed up contains a lot of great resources for those interested in development economics. Here is a sample of a few resources mentioned in its July issue: Conference organized by the…
Africa’s evolving banking landscape July 28, 2021 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) Below is a short summary of the event taken from the link above. See our announcements View our online learning resources See other Professors’ Picks
Reducing the compliance costs of regulation See our announcements View our online learning resources See other Professors’ Picks
How China lends: A rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments Working Paper by the Peterson Institute for International Economics This working paper examines 100 China debt contracts with foreign governments in 24 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Oceania. It is an amazing read on how China uses…
Pandemic divergence: The social and economic costs of Covid-19 Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Federico Filippini This is a really nice research-based analysis and commentary piece on the specific social and economic costs of Covid-19. It includes the effects of Covid-19 to various things such as the World GDP, education and human capital loss. The following is…