The Global Development Network and the European Investment Bank are co-hosting two webinars in March, focused on the theme of 'Assessing Impact Investments.'
The importance of social sciences for sustainable development cannot be understated: in its applied version, social science research offers solutions and recommendations to inform concrete action
11-12 June, Peru. GDN presented the implications of the Doing Research program in Peru for Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo's (GRADE) international conference 'How to promote research in the social sciences in Peru?'.
Global Development Network, along with Banque de France organized a four-day seminar 'Research Agenda for Central Banks' from 4-7 June 2019, in Paris, France.
20 February 2019 | In a half day event, the Global Development Network will close its program on quality and improvement in the public and private sectors. The two-year research program documents the link between productivity increases at the firm level and managerial innovation such as Kaizen, a Japanese management approach.
At a seminar jointly hosted by the Global Development Network and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow Bruegel, spoke on "The Challenges of International Collective Action in a Changed Environment."
On 20-21 December 2018, teams from national research institutions in Bolivia, Indonesia and Nigeria met for the first time in GDN's global office in New Delhi, to discuss emerging research -- including context analyses, stakeholder mapping and data collection -- to document the health of social science research systems in their respective countries.
#K4SD asked how to strengthen the capacity of the current system of development research to meet new development challenges and facilitate sustainability.
