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Development Roast https://inesad.edu.bo/developmentroast/2012/09/september-wrap-up-from-inesad/ |
September Wrap Up from INESADWarm welcomes to four new interns at INESAD: At INESAD it is possible to do internships both remotely and in the main office in La Paz. This month we have made several international and multidisciplinary additions to the INESAD Team:
On the 14th of August, we held a Welcome Friday Bar for the team members most recently arrived in La Paz: Mieke Dale-Harris, Marcelo Cardona and Luis Carlos Jemio. The 4th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics: A preliminary program for the 4th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2012) 5 to be held in La Paz on the 6th and 7th of November 2012 is now available.The Conference is now open for general inscriptions at the following registration doodle: http://www.doodle.com/z5bx6rifde6kytky 6. For participants who register and pay the conference fee at INESAD before 12/10/12, the cost is Bs. 100. After that date, the cost is Bs. 130. For students the costs are Bs. 50 and Bs. 70, respectively. For more information, please visit the conference web-site: http://www.inesad.edu.bo/bcde2012 7. Supporting policy initiatives and allied institutions: Lykke E. Andersen was invited to make a presentation for a group of Scandinavian donors at the Swedish Embassy in La Paz on the 20th of September to discuss the Development Roast "With or without you: Should the international cooperation support reduction of deforestation in Bolivia?" 8 Lykke E. Andersen also made a presentation on "Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of the Bolivian Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism" at the "Plurinational Workshop: Framework Law for Mother Earth and Integral Development and the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral Management of Forests and Mother Earth" held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 24th of September 2012. Teaching and studying: During the month of September, almost everybody at INESAD has been busy either teaching or studying. Lykke E. Andersen and Carlos Gustavo Machicado have been teaching "Environmental Economics" and "Macro-economics", respectively, at the Ph.D. program in Economics and Finance at Universidad Privada Boliviana, where Fernando Mita, Natalia Zegarra and Osvaldo Nina are all studying.Osvaldo Nina has been teaching "Introduction to Micro- and Macroeconomics" at the M.Sc. program in Economic Development at CIDES-UMSA, where Daniela Romero is also studying. Soraya Román is teaching "Integral and Inclusive Health Models" at a diploma course organized by Medicus Mundi in Cochabamba from the 18th of September to the 19th of October. Carolina Cardona and Lykke E. Andersen have both taken advantage of the new free Coursera on-line courses to study "Model Thinking" at University of Michigan and "Gamification" at University of Pennsylvania, respectively. Policy Briefs:INESAD's new Policy Brief series is called Síntesis. Check out the first two issues here:   September Roasts: Here is a selection of this month's key Development Roasts:
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