Announcements

Professor Gupta has organized the following lecture series for fall 2010:

Winners and losers, risks and rewards: seven voices on globalization, development and (in)equality

Fall 2010

University of Mary Washington

Trinkle 204, 4:30-5:30

Is globalization good for us? Is it good for developing countries? Does it promote economic development? Or does it breed inequality? Who reaps the benefits of globalization? Who suffers its harms? What are the causes and consequences of global inequality? What is the true meaning of development? How do societies develop? Is globalization gender-neutral? Does it pose new political challenges or offer new political solutions? In this lecture series, seven experts from diverse disciplinary and institutional backgrounds will address these fascinating empirical, ethical, and theoretical questions.

September 20 Title: “How to make rural service provision gender-responsive? Insights from India, Ghana and Ethiopia”

Speaker : Regina Birner, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

September 27  Title: “Why Does Inequality Matter? Power Asymmetries and the Politics of Economic Development”

Speaker:  John Echeverri-Gent, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

October 6        Title: "Globalization and international policy coordination"

Speaker :  Subir Lall, Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund, and the Mission Chief for Korea

October 13      Title: “Mitigating Risk in Emerging Markets: Insuring and Financing Investment from the Perspective of a Development Finance Institution”

Speaker : John Moran, Managing Director, Investment Development and Coordination, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (an agency of the United States Government)

October 18      Title: “Raising $1M for Honduras”

Speaker : Shin Fujiyama, Co-founder, Students Helping Honduras

October 27      Title: Globalization and labor in America (exact title TBA)

Speaker : Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice

November 10  Title: “Making Global Rules: Science, Markets and Quality Standards in the Cotton Trade”