International Growth Centre Launch Event for Growth Week
Date: Tuesday 22 September 2009
Time: 7-8.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Collier
Chair: Robin Burgess
The natural assets of the poorest countries constitute the biggest single opportunity for transformative development.
Paul Collier is a professor of economics at Oxford University and co-director of the International Growth Centre. The author of The Bottom Billion, which won the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for the world's best book on international affairs, he has lectured widely on the subjects of economics and international relations. He was the senior advisor to Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, and was Director of the Development Research group at the World Bank for five years.
The next public event in Growth Week will be on Wednesday 23 September, and will be a public lecture on The Political Economy of Development by Professor Tim Besley.
The International Growth Centre promotes sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC was initiated by and is funded by DFID.
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