A World Bank-Georgetown University Roundtable
The UN Summit on the Post-2015 Agenda was an occasion to reflect on the global future of development in its policy and ethical dimensions.
What have we learned, since the year 2000, about how best to pursue economic growth and social welfare in tandem? How should those lessons inform future efforts to reduce extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity on a global scale?
Georgetown faculty and students joined World Bank staff and members of the Chief Economist’s Advisory Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) to explore these questions.
The roundtable was the culmination of the Spring 2015 Global Future of Development lecture series at Georgetown University, which featured two presentations each by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Chief Economist Kaushik Basu. Topics ranged from pandemics and climate change to shifting frontiers of development economics.
SCHEDULE
9:30 .m. - 10:00 a.m. | Gathering/Coffee
10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. | Introductory Remarks by Kaushik Basu and John J. DeGioia
10:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. | Session One: Lessons Learned
Framing Question: What have we learned, since the year 2000, about how best to pursue economic growth and social welfare in tandem?
- Tom Banchoff (moderator), Vice President for Global Engagement, Georgetown University
- Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Stern School of Business New York University
- Ory Okolloh, Director of Investments, Omidyar Network Africa
- Pepi Patrón, Vice President for Research, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- Steven Radelet, Director of Global Human Development Program, Georgetown University
10:50 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Session Two: Paths Forward
Framing Question: How should lessons learned since 2000 inform future efforts to reduce extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity on a global scale?
- Tom Banchoff (moderator), Vice President for Global Engagement, Georgetown University
- François Bourguignon, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics
- Justin Yifu Lin, Professor and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University
- Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, Professor, University of São Paulo
- Adriana Kugler, Vice Provost for Faculty, Georgetown University
- Geeva Gopalkrishnan, student, Georgetown University