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Max Corden Lecture 2006 - Trade Policy & Poverty: Cause or Cure |
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Professor L. Alan Winters from the World Bank |
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Some see the expansion of international trade as the key to rapid economic growth, rising incomes and the alleviation of poverty. Others see it as the destroyer of livelihoods and the creator of poverty. Professor Winters will review the evidence for such views ranging from studies of whole countries to those of individual households. He will argue that while trade is generally a benign force, there will always be losers and will ask what governments can and should do about this. As a concrete example he will consider the possible consequences of liberalising world agricultural trade on incomes and poverty in rich and poor countries.
Professor L. Alan Winters is the Director of Development Research Group of the World Bank and Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. He is one of the worlds leading specialists on the empirical and policy analysis of international trade, having published over two hundred books and articles in areas such as regional trading arrangements, non tariff barriers, European integration, transition economies trade, international labour mobility, agricultural protection, trade and poverty, and the world trading system.
Professor Winters is a Research Fellow and former Programme Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Rese4arch (CERP, London) and has previously worked in the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol, Wales, and Birmingham. He has been editor of the World Bank Economic Review, associate editor of the Economic Journal and serves on numerous editorial boards. He has also advised, interalia, the OECD, DflD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Max Corden is a Professional Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor of International Economics at the School if International Studies and John Hopkins University. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics. Max Corden is recognised as a world leader in the field of international economics most notably for his work on trade protection; his book Trade Policy and Economic Welfare is regarded as a classic. He has also made significant contributions to study of developing economies and public policy in Australia. In 2001 Max Corden was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
This event is presented in conjunction with the Asia Institute, and the Department of Economics, at the University of Melbourne.
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