Date: Thursday 8 December 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Pablo Brassiolo
Discussant: Dr Alvaro Mendez
Chair: Dr Caroline Varin

The presentation of CAF's latest Economy and Development Report (RED) is part of the events programme of LSE's Global South Unit.

Pablo Brassiolo is Principal Economist in the Socioeconomic Research Department at CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and has been part of the team producing CAF’s flagship report since 2012. His research focuses on labor economics, development economics, family economics and impact evaluation of public policies, and has been published in refereed academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). He is Instructor of microeconomics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina).

Alvaro Mendez (@alvaroimendez) is the co-founder of the LSE Global South Unit. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE; Senior Lecturer in IR at Regent’s University London; Research Associate, University of Bristol; and a former editor of Millennium -Journal of International Studies at the LSE.

Caroline Varin is an Associate Fellow at the Global South Unit, London School of Economics. She has authored three books on security in the Global South.

The Global South Unit (@LSE_Globalsouth) is a research and teaching initiative based in the International Relations Department of the LSE. It is a decentralised ideas hub aimed at investigating the changing role of the South in shaping the global order

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