The Growth and Development Challenge
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Written by CEPR
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Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:54 |
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CEPR co-sponsored a seminar, The Growth and Development Challenge, with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The event served as a follow-up to a dialogue held in New York the previous day (see post from May 10). As a featured speaker, Mark Weisbrot dicussed the sharp slowdown in economic growth in the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries. Other speakers included Prabhat Patnaik, professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, Victor Tokman, former Economic Advisor to the President of Chile, and Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank. National Public Radio’s Kathy Schalch moderated. The German Historical Institute hosted the event, which attracted people from various institutions, think-tanks, embassies, and NGOs, despite rainy weather. We will have video and audio of the presentations online soon.
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