UNU Update: 2001 WIDER lecture

	UNU Update
	The newsletter of United Nations University and its network of research and training centres and programmes
		Issue 12: October - November 2001

Frances Stewart to give
2001 WIDER lecture

Leading development economist Frances Stewart will deliver this year's WIDER annual lecture. Professor Stewart's subject will be Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development.

This lecture will focus on horizontal inequality – inequality among culturally defined groups (e.g. the Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or Catholic and Protestants in N.Ireland), and its implications for social stability, conflict and economic development.

Frances Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, at Oxford University. A former council member of the United Nations University, she is currently a Board Member of the International Food Policy Research Institute and an Overseer of the Thomas Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

She has made major contributions to analysis of appropriate technology, basic needs, adjustment and poverty. Recently she has been working on the role of groups in development, and on economies in conflict.

This year's WIDER lecture will be held December 14 at the Marina Congress Centre in Helsinki.

For more details contact: ara@wider.unu.edu.
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