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African Development Seminar Series (2001-2002)
The Africa Program at the Center for International Development (CID) is pleased to announce a new seminar series on African development issues. The African Development Seminar Series will be devoted to a rigorous analysis and discussion of current issues of African development in their multidimensional and interdisciplinary dimensions.
Accordingly, the series will aim to cover not only the matters of macroeconomic stability and the related issues of economic policy reform and management, but also that lie in the interface areas of public health, education, IT, and science and technology among others. It will also importantly aim at fostering a closer connection between academic research and the world of practice by featuring speakers and presenters from the wider Boston/Cambridge academic community, senior officials from the multilateral development institutions and NGOs and leading policy makers from the Africa region.
The seminars will take place once a month on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Perkins Room, 4th floor, One Eliot Street. They will be conducted under the chairmanship of Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Director of Africa Research and Programs at the CID, aided by a student steering Committee that will assist in planning logistics, publicity, and evaluation.
Faculty members and researchers in the Cambridge and wider Boston community of scholars and practitioners who are interested in presenting papers or leading discussions are invited to send due notification either to Ellen Bitter, Assistant to Dr. Botchwey, or to Aimee Fox, Student Programs Coordinator at the CID.
Graduate students who wish to present papers or have suggestions for speakers or topics should contact the coordinator of the student Steering Committee, Andrew Lentz.
Schedule for 2001-2002:
Nov. 9, 2001, Dr.
Kwesi Botchwey. "The changing paradigm and environment of international
development cooperation."
Dec. 7, 2001, Mr. Paulo Gomes, Alternate Executive Director, World
Bank. "The World Bank and African Development in the new Millennium: the
role of the Executive Board"
Feb. 1, 2002,
Prof. Leonce Ndikumana, UMASS, Amherst. "The Economics and Politics of
ethnic conflict, war and post-war reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region
of Africa"
March 1, 2002, Bruce Bolnick
April 5, 2002, TBA
May 3, 2002, TBA
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