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Wheeler Institute for Business and Development
We create impact by identifying big challenges, applying business insights to help solve these challenges, and forging communities of learning and practice to implement large-scale and enduring change.

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Business research for impact
Spanning every urgent social issue from climate change to political economy and gender discrimination to global conflict, this website brings together the Institute’s research into emerging markets and developing nations, with a mini library that enables rapid access to information by key theme, location, affiliated researchers and external collaborators.

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President Donald Trump 100-day report card: what comes next?
The Wheeler Institute, in collaboration with the Geopolitics and Business Club at LBS, invites you to a discussion featuring panellists Richard Portes, Professor of Economics at LBS, and Robert Wescott, former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy. Due to high demand registration has now ended.

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Geographic Information System workshop
Our open access virtual workshop on GIS methods for quantitative spatial data analysis runs from May 13–29. The workshop will provide an overview of geospatial data and work through case studies using Python for spatial data analysis and QGIS for visualisation. This is a very popular workshop open to doctoral students, early-career academics, and professionals. Early application is encouraged.

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Geopolitical Tensions, Tariffs, and the World Economic Outlook
On the 13th May we will welcome Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to London Business School, as he shares his insights on the shifting landscape of the global economy, the key challenges facing emerging markets, and the policy responses shaping our future.

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Global economic prospects

3 February 1884Wheeler InstitutePast Events, Wheeler Institute

The Wheeler Institute was very pleased to host Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist at the World Bank Group on Wednesday 19th February 2025 for a discussion on the future of emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) at London Business School. Opening and closing remarks were made by the Dean of London Business School Sergei Guriev. Lucrezia…