Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish BHAGWATI, University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a prominent economist. He has made pioneering contributions to the study of development, globalisation, international trade, foreign aid and immigration. He also writes frequently for leading media worldwide. He has served in many advisory roles, includingat the GATT as Economic Policy Adviser to Director General Arthur DUNKEL and at the UN to Secretary General Kofi ANNAB on Globalization and on NEPAD Process in Africa. The recipient of many honorary degrees and prestigious prizes, he has been uniquely presented with six festschrifts written in his honour. He has also worked with many NGOs and organisations linked to NGOs[HE1] , including Human Rights Watch.

Reducing poverty in the world

19.03.2014, Brugge, Belgium

Prof. Bhagwati will cite the new Pope's emphasis on the poor rather than the recent diversion by the Occupy Movement to focus on the rich. But the question remains: how is poverty to be effectively reduced? Here, Professor BHAGWATI, who addressed this very issue in India when he was working on the problem, will draw on India's experience and the lessons it offers to the Pope and others in finding effective ways to reduce poverty. He will draw on the recent book he has published with Professor PANAGARIYA, WHY GROWTH MATTERS, which precisely tackles this issue, and which was recently selected as one of the Best Books of 2013 by the Financial Times. Watch live the lecture on 19th March at 3:30pm CET / 2:30pm GMT.

When: 19th March 2014 at 3:30pm CET / 2:30pm GMT (check time around the world).

Venue: Room E, College of Europe, Dijver, Bruges campus

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You can join the lecture by:

coming to the event in Brugge
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asking your questions to prof. Bhagwati via Twitter using #KDL hashtag

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