DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE SEMINAR: What Can Developing Countries Learn About Curbing Inequality From The Record Of Industrial Countries?
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10/06/2009 - 13:30
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10/06/2009 - 16:00 TIPS has the pleasure to invite you to the following Development Dialogue Seminar: Professor Albert Berry on What Can Developing Countries Learn About Curbing Inequality From The Record Of Industrial Countries?About Professor Albert Berry: Albert Berry is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Research Director of the Programme on Latin America and the Caribbean at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. Professor Berry obtained his PhD from Princeton in 1963. His main research areas, with focus on Latin America, are labour markets and income distribution, the economics of small and medium enterprise, and agrarian structure and policy. However, his main ongoing research project is on the role of small and medium enterprises under the current open-economy setting of Latin American and other developing countries, and a related analysis of the labour market impacts of increasing openness. Professor Berry has worked with the Ford Foundation, the Colombian Planning Commission, and the World Bank, and acted as consultant for a number of international and other agencies. He has, in the recent past, worked on South Africa's industrial structure, with a particular focus on SMMEs. Professor Berry has published more than 100 papers in learned journals and is the editor or co-editor of a number of books including Critical Issues in International Financial Reform (Transaction Publishers, 2003), Labor Market Policies in Canada and Latin America (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), and Poverty, Economic Reform, and Income Distribution in Latin America (Lynne Rienner, 1998).
Contact:
Ipeleng [at] tips [dot] org [dot] za
Venue:
TIPS – 826 Government Avenue, Arcadia (entrance at the corner of Percy & Government Avenue) |
This event is part of a series:Development Dialogue Seminar SeriesThe Development Dialogue Seminar series is a Seminar Series hosted by TIPS. The Seminars offer a platform to share views and ideas on specific development issues and alternative policy strategies. Though the Seminar programme has been designed for government officials for whom the themes tackled are of relevance, the Seminar in fact focuses on a wide range of topical development issues. The themes covered by the series span the informal economy, specific trade negotiation challenges, etc. The seminar series also attempts to offer perspectives from other countries in the region and beyond. The Seminars are generally be held in the afternoon of the last Friday of the month. They will start at 14h00 and conclude at 15h30 though discussions can continue after 15h30. However, for international speakers, the seminars could be held on other days. Please refer to the programme on the home page. Who can attend?Government officials and others who contribute to policy are targeted by the Seminar series but all are welcome though places are limited. If you would like to attend please contact ipeleng [at] tips [dot] org [dot] za. Please specify food allergies if any, as a light lunch will be served prior to the seminar. Other events in this series:
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