“Infrastructure Policy and Inequality” by Michael A. Cohen · Book Launch Event Summary
The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) hosted a book launch for the book Infrastructure Policy and Inequality by Michael Cohen on September 24, 2024. The event had welcoming remarks from Joel Towers, President of The New School and Michael Cohen, Director of the...
Labor inclusion for the fair city: Digital training for young people from La Matanza
Authors:Juan M. Graña is an Economist (UBA), Doctor in Economics (UBA). Researcher at CONICET, at the Center for Studies on Population, Employment and Development (CEPED-UBA).María Belén Fodde is a Political Scientist (UBA). Master in Urban Policy, Analysis and...
LATIN AMERICA ON THE MOVE: TWO PANELS · Event Summary
Latin America on the Move: Two PanelsContinental Governance and the Impact of the US 2024 Elections on Latin America May 2, 2024, The New School, New York, This event was jointly organized by the Observatory on Latin America OLA together with faculty from the...
New book · “Infrastructure Policy and Inequality” by Michael A. Cohen
A new book, “Infrastructure Policy and Inequality” by Michael A. Cohen, Professor of International Affairs and Founding Director of GPIA, The New School, will be out next month. The book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to...
Conference: Colonized Temporalities · Event Summary and video
On February 27, OLA held an in-person event as part of its program “2084: Imagined Futures from the South”. The keynote speaker was Carmen Ibañez Cueto, an interdisciplinary social scientist from Bolivia currently teaching at the Freie Universität in Berlin. The title...
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