Annual World Bank Conference on Development Econmics 1998 (ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821343211 ISBN 13: 9780821343210

Publisher: World Bank, 1999

Synopsis

The 'Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics' (ABCDE) brings together the world's leading scholars and development practitioners for a lively debate on state-of-the-art thinking in development policy and the implications for the global economy. The tenth conference dealt with four difficult topics in development:

* the role of geography in countries' success, with Paul Krugman, John Luke Gallup and Jeffrey Sachs;
* the role and design of regulation and competition policy, with Paul Joskow and Jean-Jacques Laffont;
* the causes of financial crises and ways to prevent them, with Bruce Greenwald, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache; and
* how ethnic conflict affects democracy and growth, with Paul Collier and Donald L. Horowitz.

This volume also includes insights from Nobel Prize winner James Tobin, Stanley Fischer, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of The Price of Inequality, Freefall, and Globalization and Its Discontents. He is a columnist for the New York Times and Project Syndicate and has written for Vanity Fair, Politico, The Atlantic, and Harper's. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Bank
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0821343211
• ISBN 13: 9780821343210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Pleskovic Boris, Stiglitz Joseph E.