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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2005
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Nancy Birdsall to deliver WIDER Annual Lecture
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Nancy Birdsall |
The founding president of the Centre for Global Development, Nancy Birdsall, will deliver this year's annual lecture at UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).
In an address entitled Why Inequality Matters, Birdsall will explain why global inequality poses problems in managing globalization so that it works for the developing world.
The fundamental problem, she says, is that globalization is asymmetric, benefiting the currently rich more than the currently poor, both within and across countries.
Before founding the Centre for Global Development, Nancy Birdsall was a senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank and is a prolific author in the field of development economics.
The WIDER Annual Lecture will be held at the Marina Congress Centre in Helsinki on October 26 from 3-5pm. Register in advance at annual-lecture@wider.unu.edu. Admission is free.
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