Department of International Development

 PUBLIC SEMINAR

The Asia Research Centre and Department of International Development are pleased to announce

Pakistan after Bin Laden: Free-fall or resurgence?

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Speaker: Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan Director, Human Rights Watch
Chair: Professor Athar Hussain

Thursday 7th June 2012, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Alumni Theatre, NAB.LG.09, New Academic Building, LSE

SUMMER PUBLIC EVENT

International Development and STICERD are delighted to announce

The Amartya Sen Lecture
Given by Professor Joseph E Stiglitz with Professor Amartya Sen

Thursday 28th June 2012 at 6.30pm
Old Theatre, LSE

Joseph E Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Amartya Sen teaches Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and was Master of Trinity College Cambridge until 2004. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. Professor Sen is an Honorary Fellow of the LSE.

This event is open to the public but a ticket is required.

  

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LSE academic awarded NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship|

Dr Tim Forsyth (pictured), reader in the Department of International Development, has been awarded the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia for the 2012-13 academic year.

New Work on Intellectual Property and Late Development|

Kenneth Shadlen has two new publications on the politics of intellectual property. The work is part of his ongoing research programme on "Intellectual Property and Late Development"

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs|

Speaker: Muhammad Yunus

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We Don't Know How To Solve Global Poverty And That's A Good Thing|

Speaker: Professor William Easterly

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