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Issue 4: October 2000 |
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Annual WIDER Lecture
Focuses on
Noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati will speak about the need to devise domestic and international policy frameworks to offset the negative effects of globalization when he gives the WIDER Annual Lecture Nov. 27. Professor Bhagwati contends that globalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but often-confused questions such as: is globalization bypassing the poor or is it actually harming them. Arguing that, in the main, globalization has a human face, the Lecture will then focus on Appropriate Governance to devising domestic and international institutional policy frameworks to offset the downsides that define the few warts on that human face. Jagdish Bhagwati is the Arthur Lehman Professor of
Economics and of Political Science at Columbia University and the Andre
Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign
Relations, New York. He was Ford International Professor of Economics at
MIT and served as Professor Bhagwati is a leading economist, best known for contributions to the theory of international trade policy. He also writes frequently on public policy in leading newspapers and magazines. He has received many Honorary Degrees and Prizes, among them the Bernhard Harms Prize (Germany), the Freedom Prize (Switzerland), the Seidman Distinguished Award for Political Economy (USA) and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (India). Click here to register for the lecture and reception. |
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