UPDATE 9/5 4:00 PM: We will post the video from the panel in this space as soon as IIES provides it. UPDATE 9/5 7:40 AM: Panel with Paul Collier, Esther Duflo, Bill Easterly, Dani Rodrik and Jeff Sachs is livestreaming now at this link.
Will appear in public with Jeff Sachs for the first time ever tomorrow at this event.
When: March 22, 2012 Where: The Great Hall at Cooper Union, New York City 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY View Map This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited
9:00am-10:00am Coffee and Refreshments
10:00am-10:45am Introductory Remarks from DRI Technology Answers and Development Possibilities Yaw Nyarko, NYU Development Research Institute Finding Answers or Answer-Finding Systems? William Easterly, NYU Development Research Institute
10:45am-12:15pm Session I: Development Goals, Evaluation, and Learning from Projects in Africa Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development Stewart Paperin, Open Society Foundations Bernadette Wanjala, Tilburg University Development Research Institute
12:15pm-1:30pm Lunch Provided Cooper Union Great Hall Lobby
1:30pm-2:30pm Session II: Keynote Address: Finding Answers in the Global Market Andrew Rugasira, Founder and Chairman, Good African Coffee, Uganda
2:30pm-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00pm-4:30pm Session III: Searching for Answers with Randomized Experiments Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, presentation of the book “Poor Economics” Discussant: Angus Deaton, Princeton University and Woodrow Wilson School
4:30pm “Poor Economics” Book Signing
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.
