HHB is glad to welcome Adeeba Ishaq as a new HHB Researcher.
Lecturer at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE, Islamabad), Adeeba holds an MPhil in Economics from Quaid-i-AzamUniversity (Islamabad, Pakistan) and a MSc in Economics from PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, (Rawalpindi, Pakistan).
Her research focuses on: development economics, labor economics, inequality, food insecurity, and well-being analysis.
HHB is glad to welcome Rabbia Tariq as a new HHB Researcher.
She is currently working as lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Her academic background includes an MPhil in Economics (2015) from Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad), and the publication of her MSc dissertation about fiscal deficit and inflation in Pakistan (2014).
Today, the XREPP Seminar – organized by the Research Group on Globalization, Economic Inequality and Public Policies in Historical Perspective (HISTORIA) from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona – will feature prof. Giovanni Vecchi's discussion of "Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty around the World from a Historical Perspective", on the basis of the HHB project.
Click here for more information on the event.
Tomorrow, prof. Giovanni Vecchi will talk about the HHB project at the 58th yearly scientific meeting of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), held at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania” of the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza).
The presentation will be part of the panel “An economic historian’s look at new data”, organized by the Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE).
For the full programme of the meeting: https://www.siecon.org/online/convegni/2017-58-rsa/programma/.
For more on ASE: http://associazionestoriaeconomica.com/.
HHB is glad to welcome Luisa Muñoz-Abeledo (University of Santiago de Compostela) as a new HHB Researcher.
PhD in Economic History at the Universitat Àutonoma de Barcelona (2003), Luisa is now Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was previously visiting in different foreign research centers (Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Research Centre for Atlantic and International History). Her research focuses on labour history and business history from a gender perspective.
Recently, she has reconstructed Galician female labor activity rates (XIX-XX), and is now elaborating historical series of real wages in industrial towns in North-western Spain. She is currently principal investigator for the Project Wages, Activity and Living Standards in Galicia, 1850-1950, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Industry.