Making Poverty History? Unequal Development Today
Wertheim Lecture 2007 by Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram. Organized by the ASSR and ASiA/IIAS
Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development at the United Nations:
Monday 21 May, 2007, 15:00 - 18:00 hrs, in the Waalse Kerk, Walenpleintje 159 (for directions please refer to: http://www.waalsekerk-amsterdam.nl/locatie.htm)
Jomo K.S. is currently Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development at the United Nations and was Professor in Applied Economics at Universiti Malaya. He has published extensively on Economic development, global inequality, the Asian financial crisis, and ethnicity and entrepreneurship.
The annual Wertheim-lecture is organised jointly by the ASSR and ASiA/IIAS. Please see our special Wertheim lecture website (http://www.iias.nl/asia/wertheim) for the full list and scanned in texts of all previous lectures.
Programme:
15:00-15:30 arrival; coffee and tea
15:30-15:45 Prof. Dr. Willem van Schendel: Introduction of the 2007 Wertheim-lecturer
15:45 Wertheim-lecture by Prof. Jomo K.S.
16:45 Borrel with information about ASiA/IIAS and Asian Studies at the ASSR