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Strings Attached? Conditionalities on Development Lending

Date: Wednesday February 25, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Jerome Green Hall 101

When organizations like the World Bank and IMF lend money to developing countries, these loans include conditions, such as anti-corruption measures, budget deficit reduction programs and the privatization of public services. Learn more about conditionalities and explore their role in lending and development from the perspective of the borrowing country, the lending organization and the legal and economic policy-making standpoint.

Speakers:

Professor Sara Calvo, Lecturer in the Discipline of International & Public Affairs at SIPA, with prior World Bank experience

Professor Jose O’Campo, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Program in Economic and Political Development at SIPA, with several prior roles in the Government of Colombia

Professor Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, with academic and research experience in international law and development

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Past Dialogues

Feb. 25, 2009: Strings Attached? Conditionalities on Development Lending
Feb. 5, 2009: Challenges and Frontiers in the Provision of Global Reproductive Health Services
Nov. 19, 2008: An International, Multidisciplinary Look at Breastfeeding
Sept. 24, 2008: Street Children
Feb. 7, 2007: International Human Trafficking
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