LSE IDEAS Kuwait Programme and LSE Middle East Centre Public Seminar
Date: Thursday 15 May 2014
Time: 4.30-6pm
Venue: 32L G.03, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Speaker: Raphael Espinoza
Chair: Professor Danny Quah
Raphael Espinoza's talk will analyse the challenges created by the changes the economies of the Gulf states have gone through in the last decade, spurred by high oil prices and ambitious diversification plans.
Raphael Espinoza is an economist in the research department at the International Monetary Fund and an external research associate at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
Danny Quah is Kuwait Professor of Economics and International Development (endowed by the Kuwait Foundation) and Director of the LSE Kuwait Programme.
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This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries contact Ian Sinclair by email i.sinclair@lse.ac.uk or call 0207 955 6639. For further information visit the LSE Kuwait Programme website.
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