| Development Policy Seminars | |
This seminar series covers topical policy issues of interest to the development community. It brings in speakers both from the UN system and outside academics. The topics range from trade and industrial policies to income distribution to the management of financial markets. Any corresponding paper prepared by the speaker is also generally made available in an electronic format for download from this site. Seminars are generally held on Wednesdays from 16:00 pm to 17:30 pm in conference room DC2-2330. |
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| 2009 | “The Dynamic of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?” presented by Admasu Shiferaw (21 October 2009) |
| "A Development Focused Climate Agreement: Is it possible?" presented by Prof. William Moomaw of The Fletcher School, Tufts University (10 June 2009) | |
| "Energy Security, Climate Change & the Transition to Global Sustainability" presented by Ian Dunlop, Deputy Governor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, Director of Australia 21 (6 May 2009) | |
| "Resurgent China: Issues for the Future" presented by Nazrul Islam, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit/DPAD/DESA (11 February 2009) | |
| 2008 | "Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality and Comparative Development Framework", presented by Matteo Cervellati, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at University of Bologna (25 November 2008) Presentation |
“An International Comparison of the Incomes of the Vast Majority” presented by Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York (29 October 2008) |
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| "Technology Transfer and Development Issues Associated with Climate Change" presented by Kenneth A. Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT, Cambridge (24 September 2008) | |
| "Economic Sanctions after the Cold War" presented by Kimberly Elliott and Jeff Schott, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (14 May 2008) | |
| "Diversification of China's Foreign Reserves" presented by Jun Zhao and Marc Lavoie (7 May 2008) | |
| "How China could contribute to a benign global rebalancing: a model-based policy study", presented by Pingfan Hong, Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Unit, Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA (5 March 2008) | |
| "Latin America's Challenge to Reach the MDGs: Financing Options and Trade-Offs", presented by Rob Vos, Director, Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA (27 February 2008) | |
| "The Anti-Corruption Agenda in Developing Countries: A Story of Missed Opportunities" presented by Mushtaq Khan, SOAS, University of London (15 February 2008) | |
| "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism" presented by Ha-Joon Chang (30 January 2008) | |
| "The Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Lessons for Developing Countries", presented by Ajit Singh of Cambridge University (9 January 2008) | |
| 2007 | "Quality of Civil Administration and Economic Growth: A Threshold Analysis", presented by Nazrul Islam, Economic Affairs Officer, Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA (November 2007) |
| "Different Roads to Democracy?: Conflict, the Rule of Law and Development"presented by Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Associate Economic Affairs Officer in Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA (31 October 2007) |
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"The Fiscal Impact of Trade Reform: Lessons from Country Case Studies", presented by Indira Rajaraman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi (10 October 2007) |
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| "Consensual and Conflictual Democratization: Rule of Law and Development", presented by Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Associate Economic Affairs Officer in Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA (21 June 2007) | |
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