Join us for a Public Forum with Steve Forbes, who will speak “In Defense of the Free Market at its Moment of Crisis,” with Bill Easterly as moderator.
When: Thursday, February 23rd, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Where: NYU Campus, Kimmel Center 914 – Silver Board Room
This event is open to the public but space is limited. Register now.
Email dri@nyu.edu with any questions.
Tags: Steve Forbes, William Easterly
On Tuesday, February 28th, Abhijit Banerjee, MIT Professor of Economics, will discuss how he is rethinking the fight against poverty in his lecture Why aren’t children learning? (and what we can do about it). The lecture, part of the Albert Gallatin Lecture series, will take place at 6:30pm at the Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts at 1 Washington Place in New York City.
Banerjee is the author, with Esther Duflo, of the recent must-read development book, Poor Economics, which describes his and his colleagues’ work evaluating development interventions through randomized experiments at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Download the event poster here; to attend the event register with Gallatin.
Tags: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Gallatin
David Rice, DRI’s Executive Director, will be speaking at Wesleyan University’s Forum for International Development this Saturday February 18th. David will give the keynote address “Is it Better to Give or Receive? Rethinking International Development,” as well as a lecture on “Innovating Capital Flows to Small Enterprises.” Nathaneal Goldberg, Policy Director at Innovations for Poverty Action, will discuss “How Do We Know What Works in Development?” Other discussion topics include different approaches to development, Wesleyan non-profits, identifying and scaling up effective interventions, and getting involved in development.
Click here for the full program.
Tags: David Rice, Forum for International Development, Wesleyan University
The Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED), a DRI and Africa House partner organization based at NYU Abu Dhabi, will hold its annual conference, “Enhancing Economic Development through Technology”, on February 12th and 13th.
The agenda reflects CTED’s goal of combining economic principles, technological advances, and human-centric designs to address problems in developing regions, as well as DRI’s interest in exploring the role of technology in enabling bottom-up development through non-state actors. One joint DRI-CTED project, for example, evaluates whether providing Ghanaian farmers with market information via text message leads to fundamental changes in the bargaining process between farmers and traders.
At the February conference, Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, now the African Union envoy to Somalia, and UAE Foreign Trade Minister Lubna Al Qasimi will give keynote speeches. Panels led by an international group of scholars and practitioners—including Mwangi Kimenyi, Director of the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings, Ethiopia Commodities Exchange Founder and CEO Eleni Gabre-Madhin, and DRI Co-Director Yaw Nyarko—will discuss mobile money, food security, education, energy, and technologies for healthcare.
We’ll be covering some of these speakers and topics here on the DRI website in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
Please join us for our all-day 2012 Annual Conference
Thursday, March 22nd on the NYU Campus
Confirmed Speakers Include:
Abhijit Banerjee
MIT Department of Economics and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Michael Clemens
Center for Global Development
Angus Deaton
Princeton University Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School
William Easterly
NYU Department of Economics and Development Research Institute/AfricaHouse
Yaw Nyarko
NYU Department of Economics and Development Research Institute/AfricaHouse
Stewart Paperin
Open Society Foundations
Bernadette Wanjala
Tilburg University Development Research Institute
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited
Detailed agenda and exact location to follow
Email dri@nyu.edu with any questions
