Results for tag: Historical Development
ERC Consolidator Grant for Africa@Work: Reconstructing a Century of Labour and Livelihoods in Africa
In December 2025, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to Jutta Bolt, Professor of Global Economic History at the University of Groningen and Board Member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for her research proposal...
Veni grant for Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich
Nobel Prize 2024 Awarded for Groundbreaking Work on Institutions and Prosperity
Grant for ICT Innovation Project
Professors Abe de Jong and Herman de Jong received a grant of 160,000 euro for a UG ICT Innovation Fund Proposal titled Digitization of printed registries to structured data. The project’s idea is to deliver a machine learning-powered online platform to...
FEB-HIS Summer School: Financial, Economic and Business History
The Financial, Economic and Business History (FEB-HIS) Summer School for PhD students and Postdocs will take place in Groningen from Monday 24th June to Friday 28th June 2024. It is organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University...
Grant for investigating long-term disease patterns in Africa between 1850 and 1960
Jutta Bolt has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant for five years to investigate historical disease patterns in Africa. The current pandemic is a forceful reminder of the global importance of good health for all. But at the same...
Long-run WIOD published
As part of Marcel Timmer's VICI-project, a long-run time series of World Input-Output Tables for the period 1965-2000 has been constructed.
European Historical Economics Society Conference, Groningen 17th and 18th June, 2022
The fourteenth conference of the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) will be held at the University of Groningen, Friday - Saturday, 17-18 June 2022.
WIOD migration and DataverseNL
The original website of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), previously hosted at www.wiod.org, has been migrated to the GGDC website. An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated. All information and...