The Triple Crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change
UNU-WIDER angle 05/2010
Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Date Written: May 1, 2010
Abstract
More than 200 researchers and policymakers came together in Helsinki in mid-May to celebrate UNU-WIDER's 25th anniversary and to discuss the 'Triple Crisis' of finance, food and climate change — and its implications for poverty, inequality and human development. Energetic debate, from a wide range of perspectives, took place over 13-15 May.
This is at a time when the global economy is passing through a period of profound change. How to interpret that change, and what it means for the next 25 years of UNU-WIDER research and training, was central to the Triple Crisis conference. And how economics as a discipline refocuses itself on the really important dangers facing humanity was an issue that ran throughout the 3 days of debate.
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