Eilert Sundt lecture 1999

Globalization and Development: Getting the Story Straight on What the World Economy Can Do For and To Developing Countries

Professor Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

Friday 22. October 1999,
12.15, Auditorium 1,
Eilert Sundts House

The talk will have two parts:

a) The first part will focus on the theory and empirics of the trade-growth linkage, and ask: can developing countries expect a growth boost by integrating themselves in the world economy?

b) The second part will consider the world economy as a source of shocks and instability, and ask: what can developing countries do to increase their resilience to instability arising from erratic capital flows or terms-of-trade shocks?

Dani Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central questions on which his research focuses. He is the research coordinator of the Group of 24 (G-24), and is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), and Overseas Development Council. He serves on the advisory committees for the Institute for International Economics and the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey. Among other honors, he was the invited Marshall Lecturer of the European Economic Association in 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University, and an A.B. from Harvard College.