Tuesday, October 12

2:45 pm – International Studies Colloquium, 129 Schaprio Hall
Isaac Osei CDE ’77 – Member of Parliament, Ghana. Mr. Osei, a recent presidential primary candidate in Ghana and former Ghana High Commissioner to the UK, will speak about democratization in Ghana and in Africa.

6 pm to 8 pm – Opening reception at CDE building, 1065 Main Street

Wednesday, October 13

9:30 am – 10:45 am – Discussion with Professor Henry Bruton, CDE Classroom

2 pm – “The CDE: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward,” Brooks-Rogers Auditorium

• Catharine Hill, Williams College ‘76 – President, Vassar College
• Fakhruddin Ahmed, CDE ’71 – former Chief Adviser (Prime Minister), Bangladesh
• Elsie Kanza, CDE ’00 – Economic Adviser to the President, Tanzania
• Michele de Nevers – Senior Manager, the World Bank

4 pm – ” Macroeconomic Reforms in Developing Countries: What Has Been Gained?” Brooks-Rogers Auditorium

• Peter Montiel – Professor of Economics, Williams College
• Gary Teves, CDE ’68 – former Secretary of Finance, Philippines
• Eduardo Conesa, CDE ’69 – Professor of Political Economy, University of Buenos Aires
• Ishrat Husain, CDE ’72 – former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
• Eteri Kvintradze, CDE ’99 – IMF Resident Representative to Bangladesh, originally from Georgia

8 pm – ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Joseph Stiglitz – University Professor, Columbia University, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001, “A Half Century of Changing Perspectives on Development”

Thursday, October 14

9:30 am – 10:45 am – Discussion with Professor Henry Bruton, Weston 10

12 noon – 1:30 pm – “Careers in International Development” – panel sponsored by Career Counseling and CDE, Weston Hall 10 – An information session for undergraduates.

12:30- 1:45 pm – Discussion of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Griffin 3.
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, and Rob Johnson, head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, will discuss economics in academia.

2 pm – “Whither the Washington Consensus? Perspectives on Development Strategy,” Brooks-Rogers Auditorium

• Anand Swamy – Professor of Economics, Williams College
• Steve Lewis, Williams College ’60 – former President, Carleton College
• Toga Gayewea McIntosh, CDE ’76 – Executive Director, the World Bank, originally from Liberia
• Ana Rodriguez-Ortiz, CDE ’87 – Senior Advisor to the President, Inter-American Development Bank, originally from Colombia
• Rafkat Hasanov, CDE ’02 – Executive Director, Investment Roundtable, Kyrgyz Republic

4 pm – “The Financial Crisis of 2007-09: Lessons from Developing Countries for the U.S.” Brooks-Rogers Auditorium

• Gerard Caprio, Williams College ’72 – Professor of Economics, Williams College, and Chair, CDE
• John S. Wadsworth, Williams College ’61 – Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
• Goh Chok Tong, CDE ’67 – Senior Minister, Singapore
• Mauricio Yepez, CDE ’82 – former Minister of Finance, Ecuador

8 pm – ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Dani Rodrik – Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
“Diagnostics before Prescription?”

Friday, October 15

12 noon – The Log, 78 Spring Street, Center for Environmental Studies
Michele de Nevers – Senior Manager, Environment Department, the World Bank
“The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries”

This paper develops a theory of political behavior in which moral values are
a luxury good. This idea both generates new testable implications and ties
together a broad set of empirical regularities about political polarization in
the U.S. The model predicts (i) the emergence of economically left-wing elites;
(ii) that more rich than poor people vote against their material interests; (iii) that
within-party heterogeneity is larger among Democrats than Republicans; (iv) that
the correlation between people’s economic and social policy views increases both
in income and over time; and (v) realignment patterns that reflect an increased
relevance of moral rather than class-based divisions: rich moral liberals who
switch to the Democrats, and poor moral conservatives who swing Republican.
Assuming that parties set policies by aggregating their supporters’ preferences,
the model also predicts increasing polarization on social issues over time. We
relate these predictions to known stylized facts, and test our new predictions
empirically.