The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Date:  Friday, May 2
Time:  9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Location:  The New School
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street). Directions.

Admission is Free; Seating is limited.
RSVP required to scepa@newschool.edu or 212.229.5717 x3044.

This conference will explore the connections among intersecting domestic, global, economic, and political forces that constrain economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

A keynote speech on "From Maladjusted States to Developmental States" will be given by Thandika Mkandawire, director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development and author of Our Continent Our Future.

PANELISTS:

Kwesi Botchwey, professor of development economics, Tufts University and executive chairman, African Development Policy Ownership Initiative. He is the author of Financing African Development.

Mwangi was Githinji, assistant professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and co-author of An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya.

James Heintz, assistant research professor, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and co-author of An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya.

Richard Kozul-Wright, senior economist, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and author of The Resistable Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World.

Carol Lancaster, associate professor of politics at the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government. She is also director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. She is the author of Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics.

Berhanu Nega, former mayor-elect of Addis Ababa and political prisoner, now visiting professor of economics at Bucknell University.

Nicolas Van de Walle, professor of International Studies, director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and author of African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis.

Leonard Wantchekon, professor of politics and economics, NYU, and author of The Paradox of 'Warlord' Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation.

Presented by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and Project Africa.