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Columbia Journalism's 8th Annual Reuters Forum
To Focus on Human Capital


	The central role of human capital in sustaining the global economy is the 
focus of this year's Reuters Forum at the Columbia University Graduate School of 
Journalism. 
	Open to the public and free of charge, it will bring together international 
scholars, bankers, business leaders, journalists and world financial authorities 
to discuss trends in education, training, knowledge, skills and health that affect 
people's earnings and world economic development.
	The discussions will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on seven Wednesday 
evenings, Jan. 28, Feb. 11 , Feb. 25, March 11, April 1, April 15 and April 29, in 
the main lecture hall of the Journalism School.
	Participants will include Columbia economist Jagdish Bhagwati and 
urbanist Saskia Sassen, banker Walter Wriston, Stephen Cecchetti of the Federal 
Reserve, Bruno Laporte of the World Bank, Demetrios Papademetriou of the 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Louis Uchitelle of The New York 
Times and Edward Yardeni of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.  They will debate the 
impact of the information revolution, trade liberalization, the rise of democracies 
and free market economics on the development of human capital.
	"At a time when ideas and innovation are the new engines of economic 
growth and the 'knowledge worker' has become the driver of this new world 
economy, the Reuters Forum will bring together the innovative thinkers of the day 
to address some of the most compelling questions surrounding the role of
human capital in economic development," said Terri Thompson, director of the 
forum. 
 	Among some of the questions to be addressed at this year's Reuters Forum: 
What is the necessary regulatory framework to attract and nurture today's high-
skilled workers?  What architecture of governance - both national and trans-
national - is reasonable in a global age?  Does everyone have access to the new 
factors of production - knowledge and ideas?  Has economic globalization had an 
impact on workers by producing a race to the bottom among manual and low-
wage service workers as firms shop around the world for cheaper labor?  Is global 
capitalism dismantling the social safety net?  Are the social costs of economic 
deregulation too high?
	Following is the forum schedule:

 Jan. 28	Global Migration:  The Competition for Human Capital.  Moderated 
	by William Wolman of Business Week, with Muzaffar Chishti of the Union 
	of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE); Van Doorn 
	Ooms, Committee for Economic Development, and Dr. Demetrios 
	Papademetriou, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  
Feb. 11	Global Governance: Are Global Institutions a Match for Global
	Markets?  Moderated by Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect, with
	Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University; Clyde Preskowitz, Economic 
	Strategy Institute, and Walter Wriston, former chairman, Citibank.

 Feb. 25	Education & Training:  Can Anyone Join the Knowledge
	Revolution?  Moderated by Ernst Z. Rothkopf, Teachers College, with John 
	Gage, Sun Microsystems; Richard Kazis, Jobs for the Future, Inc., and 
	Bruno Laporte, The World Bank. 
        
March 11	Labor at a Crossroads:  Do the World's Workers Need a Raise? 
	Moderated by Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, with John Langmore, 
	United Nations; Sumner Rosen, Columbia  University; Robert Taylor, The
	Financial Times, and Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times. 

 April 1	Global Trade:  Do Open Markets Threaten National Sovereignty? 
	Moderated by Peter Morici, University of Maryland, with Kimberly Elliott, 
	Institute for International Economics; Robert Hormats, Goldman Sachs  
	International; Thea M. Lee, AFL/CIO, and Clive McKeefe, Reuters.

 April 15 	The New Growth Debate:  Has Economics Kept Pace with the 
	Information Age?  Moderated by Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern 
	University, with Stephen G. Cecchetti, Federal Reserve; Stephen Roach, 
	Morgan Stanley, and Dr. Edward E. Yardeni, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

April 29	 Global Capitalism:  A Boon or Bane for Social Progress?  Moderated 
	by Dr. Alice H. Amsden, M.I.T., with R.C. Longworth, Chicago Tribune; 
	Claudia Rosett, The Wall Street Journal, and William G. Shipman,
	State Street Global Advisors. 

 	 Students in Columbia's Business, International and Public Affairs, Law 
and Journalism schools may enroll in The Reuters Forum for academic credit 
and attend lectures preceding each discussion. The best articles they write will 
appear in the next edition of The Reuters Forum Journal published by Columbia 
University.  The 1997 edition may be seen on The Reuters Forum website at 
http://moon.jrn.columbia.edu/reuters-forum/1997 or it may be purchased for $4.95 
and ordered by calling (212) 854-2711.  For more information or to register for The 
Reuters Forum, call (212) 854-6840, fax (212) 854-3900 or e-mail tat5@columbia.edu. 
	The Reuters Forum was begun in 1991 with a grant from The Reuter 
Foundation.

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