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Last chance to register | SITE 2023 Development Day conference
⌛️Last chance to register! Join 21 speakers and over 200 participants in this highly anticipated event in Stockholm featuring international and national experts and representatives from the Swedish and Ukrainian governments. 📅 Tuesday, 5 December, 2023 ⏰ 10:00 - 16:35 CET 📍 On-site at Stockholm School of Economics 💡Learn more and register here: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/events/site-2023-development-day-conference/ Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies Nordic Ukraine Forum

🇺🇦 How to sustain support for Ukraine and overcome the financial and political challenges? 📍 Join the SITE Development Day conference with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Belarusian Democratic Forces, Andrij Plachotnjuk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Sweden, Johan Forssell, Minister of Foreign Trade and International Development Cooperation and more than 20 other distinguished speakers. ➡️ Learn more and register: https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/news/site-publications/2022/sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-johan-forssell-andrij-plachotnjuk-will-be-attending-the-site-2022-Development-day-conference/ #SITEDevDay #Ukraine #Development #Europe #DevelopmentDay #EU #Belarus

Torbjörn Becker, Director of SITE, discusses the reconstruction of Ukraine in an interview with news channel Al Jazeera English based on key points and ideas from the paper-series Rapid Response Economics series: "A Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine". 📑 Read the paper here: https://voxeu.org/content/blueprint-reconstruction-ukraine

Everybody is deeply shaken by the horror of war, but there are some gender differences in the type of harm that individuals face. What are the risks that women typically face during a conflict that are specific to their gender? Pamela Campa, Assistant Professor at SITE, discusses the specific risk that women face during wartime. 💡 Learn more: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/News/gender-based-violence-and-the-ukraine-conflict/ 📚 Interested to learn more about the dimensions of gender-based violence in military conflicts? Join the hybrid conference on 11 May 2022 "Economic and social context of domestic violence". 📅 Learn more and how to register: https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/calendar/site-external-events/2022/economic-and-social-context-of-domestic-violence/

In recent decades, a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. What do we know about these "Spin Dictators"? Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Sciences Po, and Maiting Zhuang, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, discuss the strategies of "Spin Dictators", how Putin is turning into a "Fear Dictator" and what the war in Ukraine means for Russia's economy and media freedom. 📺 Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/kHLIEXw521c

Why should Sweden provide financial support to a country that is invading a democratic neighbour and killing people in the thousands and creating the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the WWII? Anders Olofsgård, Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), discusses the reasons why Sweden has been providing financial support to Russia and why we need to understand what that support is actually financing and what its purpose is. 📺 Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/4VfF5XVxs-s #academicsstandwithukraine

What is the biggest problem with imposing sanctions on autocracies? How are the cost of sanctions shared across the sanctioned party? 👨‍🏫 Jonathan Lehne, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), talks about the "Fortress Russia" strategy and how the Russian economy's exposure to sanctions has changed since 2014. 📺 Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/I1EFcZdj2Gw

📈How will rising energy prices affect EU growth strategy, the so-called Green Deal? Elena Paltseva, Associate Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, discusses EU green transition plans. ➡️Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/orEiL3GkAkk

What policies and investments are needed to improve global value chains post pandemic? On December 20, 2021, Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, presented key findings from the Asian Infrastructure Finance 2021 report: Sustaining Global Value Chains. ⬇Watch the full video to learn more. 📙 Read the full report here: https://www.aiib.org/en/news-events/asian-infrastructure-finance/2021/introduction/index.html

📢Just a few days left to register! Join our flagship conference online on Dec 8, together with distinguished experts and panelists from Russia, Poland, Belarus, Georgia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and other countries in the region to discuss global warming and energy transformation and security with a particular focus on Eastern Europe. 💡 Learn more and register here: https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/calendar/site-external-events/2021/development-day-2021-environmental-policy-and-public-opinion-in-eastern-europe/

In what way did the COVID-19 pandemic affect our wellbeing?
In what way did the COVID-19 pandemic affect our wellbeing? Join the online workshop ´Dimension of Well-being´ on 28-29 June hosted by SITE and Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies in collaboration with CenEA - Centre for Economic Analysis to learn more about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for different aspects of well-being. ✅ Register here: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/events/webinar--dimensions-of-well-being/

📯 You can still register for today's webinar 'Strategies to opening up after the pandemic´. Register in the link below to learn more about the different strategies implemented in vaccination, opening up the borders and the socioeconomic aspects within Sweden, Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region, and the Caucasus region. ❗️Closing ticket sale at 10:00am CEST, Stockholm time: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/events/webinar--strategies-to-opening-up-after-the-pandemic/

Understanding Russia’s GDP numbers in the COVID-19 crisis
Real GDP growth numbers are important to understand economic developments in a country. What is the problem with Russia’s reported growth of minus 3 percent when the EU average in 2020 was minus 6%? 📈 Torbjörn Becker from the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics explains why real GDP growth in Russia is the wrong metric to use for understanding how incomes and purchasing powers of Russian households, companies, and the government changed in 2020. 💡Learn more: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/News/understanding-russias-gdp-numbers-in-the-covid-19-crisis/

What are the challenges to media freedom in Eastern European countries?
📺 What are the challenges to media freedom in Eastern European countries? Maiting Zhuang, Assistant Professor at SITE, discusses backsliding scores of press freedom in the Eastern European countries. 📕 Read the full policy brief to learn more: https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/news/site-publications/publications/2021/what-are-the-challenges-to-media-freedom-in-Eastern-European-countries/

Pollution and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Air Quality in Eastern Europe
💨Was there a significant improvement in air quality in 2020 as a result of COVID-19? 👨‍🏫Jonathan Lehne, researcher from the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, discusses factors that explain a persistent East-West divide in air pollution in Europe. 📚Learn more: https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/site/News/pollution-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-air-quality-in-eastern-europe/ Follow Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies to read more about similiar research topics.

Highlight from Development Day conference 2020

Maria Perrotta Berlin on domestic violence during the #COVID19 pandemic
Have #domesticviolence increased in Sweden during the current #COVID19 pandemic? Assistant Professor Maria Perrotta Berlin gives you the full insights. Learn more in the link below! 📈📊 🔗: https://www.hhs.se/en/about-us/news/site-publications/2020/domestic-violence---the-case-of-sweden-during-the-pandemic/

GDP growth in former Soviet Union countries (PPP, USD per capita)
How have former Soviet Union countries developed in economic terms? ⌛️ Join the SITE annual Academic Conference to learn more about the economic transition from a command economy to a market economy. 📈📉 Learn more: http://bit.ly/SITEConference2019 p.s. This year marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Key event that started a dramatic transition process from totalitarian regimes towards liberal democracy in many countries. For most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union change in political institutions and social norms has been slow and uneven. Weak political checks and balances, corruption and authoritarianism threaten not only the welfare of citizens within these countries, but also peace and cooperation in Europe more generally. Join SITE Academic conference and learn more about the current academic standing on the topic. Dataset: IMF. GDP per capita, current prices (Purchasing power parity; international dollars per capita)

Development Day 2019
ANNOUNCEMENT | The date of the annual Development Day conference 2019 is now set. #SAVETHEDATE RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/development-day-2019-the-state-of-democracy-in-eastern-europe-tickets-74422661183?ref=ecount

The second day of SITE Academic conference ends with presentations of four research papers covering topics of gender development from women survival to career opportunities. Girija Borker, World Bank, discusses the perceived risk of street harassment and educational choices of women. Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University, presents her paper “All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage”. Markus Goldstein, World Bank, talks about adolescent empowerment in the face of shocks. Michal Myck, CenEA - Centre for Economic Analysis, discusses the consequences of widowhood from health and material condition perspective. Follow us on Twitter for LIVE updates #SITEConference