Development Policy Seminars: Archive

2012

• Development Policy Seminar Series "The World Economic and Social Survey: A reflective and selective energy discourse" presented by Prof. Mark Howells, Director of the Division of Energy Systems Analysis (KTH-dESA) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. (10 December 2012)
• “Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda” presented by Dr. Nazrul Islam, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit/DPAD/DESA (6 December 2012)
• “The Millennium Institute’s Threshold 21 Model” presented by John D. Shilling (30 November 2012)
• "Desirable financial sector in developing countries, especially LICs, to serve the real economy, and not undermine it" presented by Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones, Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University and Associate Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute(19 November 2012)
• "Policy Choices for Different Stages of the Demographic Transition" presented by Prof. Ronald Lee, Professor of Demography and the Jordan Family Professor of Economics; Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley (8 November 2012)
• “Inequality, Instability and the Future of Finance” presented by Professor James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/ Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, and professorship in Government (2 November 2012)

2011

• “Innovative Development Finance” presented by Dr. Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist and Manager of the Migration and Remittances Unit at the World Bank; CEO of Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium; and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex (26 October 2011)
• “Can fiscal union resolve the euro crisis?” presented by Prof. Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (25 October 2011)
• “Aid Securitization: beyond IFFlm” presented by Prof. Suhas L. Ketkar (19 October 2011) Presentation
• "Could the current crisis lead to a sustainable global golden age?" presented by Prof. Carlota Perez, Cambridge and Sussex Universities, United Kingdom and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (12 October 2011) Presentation
• "UN LDC IV: Framework Issues and Strategic Considerations" presented by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka;former Ambassador of Bangladesh to WTO and UN Offices in Geneva; former Special Adviser on LDCs to Secretary General UNCTAD (22 March 2011) Presentation
• "Twenty-three things they don't tell you about capitalism" presented by Ha-Joon Chang, Reader, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (21 March 2011)
• "Will the current boom in capital inflows to developing countries end in a bust?" presented by Yilmaz Akyuz, Special Economic Advisor, South Centre, Geneva; former Director, Globalization and Development Division, UNCTAD ( 1 March 2011)
• "Market access, Transparency and Fairness in Global Trade" presented by Willem van der Geest , International Trade Centre (ITC) (28 January 2011)

2010

• "Taxation, Development, and Globalization?What are the Issues?" presented by Michael Keen (29 October 2010)
• "Global Democracy for Sustaining Global Capitalism" presented by Dr. Jose Miguel Andreu and Dr. Rita Dulci Rahman (19 October 2010)
• "Gaps and Traps in De-regulating Finance in Emerging Economies: The Case of India" presented by Dr. Sunanda Sen (29 June 2010)
• "Are Trade Agreements an Obstacle to More Predictable Investment Flows to Developing Countries?" presented by Kevin P. Gallagher, Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
  (12 May 2010)
• "Redesigning the Poverty Eradication Agenda" presented by Rehman Sobhan, Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh. Chapter I (13 April 2010)
• "Diffusion of Activities" presented by Prabhat Patnaik, Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (06 April 2010)
• "Maynard's Revenge: Keynesianism and the Crisis", presented by Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, New School for Social Research (11 March 2010)

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)
• "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)
• "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)
• "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)