Thinking about Development Differently: Complexity and Network-based Approaches for Policy

April 22, 2025
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Event Details

May 5, 2025

9:00am-2:45pm ET

World Bank Group I Building Room I 2-220 & Online

Co-hosted by the World Bank and  Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this one-day event explores how complexity science and network-based methods can bring fresh insights to development research and policy. 

Discover how these tools can help reveal the hidden structures and systemic interactions that shape observed patterns of growth, poverty, and resilience—and how these insights can help inform innovative approaches to integrated policymaking. The event will feature a keynote address by Professor Cesar Hidalgo, followed by a series of presentations applying these approaches to critical areas such as the green transition, the digital economy, multidimensional poverty, and the interlinked nature of development goals.

Register: https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2025/05/05/thinking-about-development-differently-complexity-and-network-based-approaches-for-policy

 

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