World Bank Public Seminar "World Development Report 2010: Development
Date : Nov 16, 2009
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World Bank Public Seminar
World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
Date/Time: November 16 (Mon), 2009 / 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: Large Conference Room (1st floor), IDEC
World Bank will organize a public seminar “World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change” upon the forthcoming visit by Mr. Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President and Mr. Kirk Hamilton, Co-Author of the report. Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, says the report. High-income countries also need to act quickly to reduce their carbon footprints and boost development of alternative energy sources to help tackle climate change. If they act now, a 'climate-smart' world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable.
Speakers:
Mr. Justin Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, The World Bank http://go.worldbank.org/DW31NCS6S0
Mr. Kirk Hamilton, Lead Economist in Development Research Group, The World Bank and Co-Author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change http://go.worldbank.org/LQ4QN3SXC0
Mr. Kirk Hamilton, Lead Economist in Development Research Group, The World Bank and Co-Author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change http://go.worldbank.org/LQ4QN3SXC0
Speakers Profile:
JUSTIN YIFU LIN is World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. He took up his World Bank position on June 2, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at PekingUniversity. He will remain on leave from PekingUniversity during his World Bank tenure. Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 18 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability, which is available in Chinese and English. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition. Among his many public roles in China, Justin Yifu Lin served as a deputy of China’s People’s Congress and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He has served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee. He was awarded the 1993 and 2001 Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economists in China), the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index), fellow of Academy of Sciences for Developing World in 2005 and honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D’Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University and City University of Hong Kong. He gave the 2007-2008 Marshall Lectures at CambridgeUniversity on October 31-November 1, 2007. Mr. Lin is the World Bank’s first chief economist from a developing country. The Chief Economist guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the research agenda of the institution.
KIRK HAMILTON is Lead Economist in the Development Economics Research Group of The World Bank and co-author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change. He is principal author of the World Bank report Where is the Wealth of Naions? and leads research on the links between poverty and environment, ‘greening’ the national accounts, and the economics of climate change. Previously senior research fellow at the UK Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Dr. Hamilton has researched and published extensively on growth theory and the economics of sustainable development. He also served as Assistant Director of National Accounts for the government of Canada, where his responsibilities included developing an environmental national accounting program. His degrees include a PhD in Economics and MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, as well as a BSc (Eng.) from Queen's University at Kingston.
JUSTIN YIFU LIN is World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. He took up his World Bank position on June 2, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at PekingUniversity. He will remain on leave from PekingUniversity during his World Bank tenure. Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 18 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability, which is available in Chinese and English. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition. Among his many public roles in China, Justin Yifu Lin served as a deputy of China’s People’s Congress and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He has served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee. He was awarded the 1993 and 2001 Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economists in China), the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index), fellow of Academy of Sciences for Developing World in 2005 and honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D’Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University and City University of Hong Kong. He gave the 2007-2008 Marshall Lectures at CambridgeUniversity on October 31-November 1, 2007. Mr. Lin is the World Bank’s first chief economist from a developing country. The Chief Economist guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the research agenda of the institution.
KIRK HAMILTON is Lead Economist in the Development Economics Research Group of The World Bank and co-author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change. He is principal author of the World Bank report Where is the Wealth of Naions? and leads research on the links between poverty and environment, ‘greening’ the national accounts, and the economics of climate change. Previously senior research fellow at the UK Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Dr. Hamilton has researched and published extensively on growth theory and the economics of sustainable development. He also served as Assistant Director of National Accounts for the government of Canada, where his responsibilities included developing an environmental national accounting program. His degrees include a PhD in Economics and MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, as well as a BSc (Eng.) from Queen's University at Kingston.
Language: English (ConnectingHiroshimaUniversity and World Bank Tokyo Office via video conference)
Contact for further information:
Masaaki Komatsu (ex. 6917, mkomatsu(at)hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Daisaku Goto (ex. 6918, dgoto(at) hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Satoru Komatsu (ex.6932, skomatsu(at)hiroshima-u.ac.jp)