The World Bank’s World Development Report is an invaluable guide to the economic, social, and environmental state of the world today. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty.
With this workshop, Columbia SIPA’s Center on Global Economic Governance, Cornell University and the World Bank WDR Team will convene the Report authors, alongside Columbia and Cornell faculty, for a discussion of the World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work. The WDR 2019 studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today, focusing on areas such as technological progress, new trends in global trade and investment, and shifting demographics.
Registration is required and space is limited. This event is open only to current graduate students.
Participants
Belinda Archibong, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University
Michael Best, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Nancy Chau, Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Marty Chen, Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Advisor and Founder of WIEGO
Simeon Djankov, Director of the WDR 2019, World Bank
Gary Fields, Professor of Economics and John P. Windmuller Chair of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University
Kevin Hallock, Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and Joseph R. Rich ’80 Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies, ILR School, Cornell University
Merit Janow, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Professional Practice, International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University
Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Mike Lovenheim, Chair, Department of Economics, Cornell University
W. Bentley Macleod, Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Suresh Naidu, Associate Professor, International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University
Kiki Pop-Eleches, Associate Professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Rodrigo Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs
Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA
Anja Tolonen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University
Gergana Tsvetanova, Analyst, World Bank
Miguel Urquiola, Professor, Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University
Homa Zarghamee, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University
