School of International and Public AffairsColumbia UniversityCelebrating 60 Years

School of international & public affairs -- saturday, October 28, 2006

 
session one -- PANEL ONE
 

Economic Development in the 21st Century

 


Economic development requires more than capital investment. That is a lesson already learned. Increasingly focus has shifted to the need for sustainable institutional change capable of stimulating and maintaining the developmental process.

Moderator: Al Fishlow, Professor & Director of the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies and Center for the Study of Brazil

Discussant: Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University Professor; Chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought; Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

Alumni Panelists:

  • Lisa Bhansali, MIA ’88, Senior Public Sector Management Specialist, The World Bank

  • Marc Jacquand, MIA ‘00, UN Development Group Office

  • Stephen Gaull, MIA ‘88, Country Director, Africa Region, Millennium Challenge Corporation

  • Charles MacCormack, MIA ’65, CEO, Save the Children

Q&A