Podcasts about developing economies

Show host Gene Tunny and the World Bank's Nilima Ramteke delve into the transformative impact of fast payments. They discuss how Project FASTT (Frictionless Affordable Safe Timely Transactions) bridges financial gaps and drives inclusive economic development worldwide. For example, they cover how QR codes and mobile apps make digital payments more accessible for small merchants and rural communities.If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for Gene, please email him at contact@economicsexplored.com.TimestampsIntroduction (0:00)Overview of Project FASTT (2:28)Benefits and Implementation of Fast Payment Systems (7:50)Challenges in Implementing Fast Payment Systems (14:51)Role of Central Banks and Trust in Fast Payment Systems (20:33)Impact of Fast Payment Systems on Cryptocurrencies (25:53)Conclusion (31:36)TakeawaysFast payments enable 24/7, low-cost, secure, real-time transactions, making them vital for financial inclusion.Project FASTT provides a toolkit and support for implementing fast payment systems globally.Central banks, in collaboration with private sectors, play a key role in designing and implementing fast payment systems.QR codes and mobile apps make digital payments more accessible for small merchants and rural communities.Fast payments offer an alternative to cryptocurrencies in emerging markets, significantly where volatility and regulatory risks hinder crypto adoption.Links relevant to the conversationWorld Bank Project FASTT website: https://fastpayments.worldbank.org/World Bank paper on “What Does Digital Money Mean for Emerging Market and Developing Economies”:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099736004212241389/p17300602cf6160aa094db0c3b4f5b072fcLumo Coffee promotion10% of Lumo Coffee's Seriously Healthy Organic Coffee.Website: https://www.lumocoffee.com/10EXPLOREDPromo code: 10EXPLORED Full transcripts are available a few days after the episode is first published at www.economicsexplored.com.

The term ‘fragility' is used to describe various complex challenges including protracted conflicts, weak state capacity, and vulnerability to climate-related shocks.Development progress has been the hardest in these contexts. But the landscape is changing, with new development players emerging – notably in the private sector. Private capital is reaching frontier economies (those in low- and middle-income countries impacted by so-called fragility), fuelled by an impact investing market of more than $1 trillion.Ahead of next week's World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, this episode examines who is shaping this new vision of development in frontier markets. Guests dissect the innovative approaches and collaborations needed to strengthen development efforts in areas affected by conflict and instability.Guests Sara Pantuliano (host), Chief Executive, ODI GlobalJake Cusack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CrossBoundary GroupHeike Harmgart, Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)Andrej Kirn, Head of International Organisations and Humanitarian Agenda, World Economic ForumSurer Mohamed, Research Fellow, Politics and Governance programme, ODI GlobalRelated resourcesHumanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative (World Economic Forum)Mobilising European Institutional Investors into Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: three critical areas to address (Insight, ODI Global)Trillions or billions? Reassessing the potential for European institutional investment in emerging markets and developing economies (Report, ODI Global)Blended finance's broken promise and how to fix it (Event, ODI Global)Trillions or billions? The Future of European Institutional Investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (Event video, ODI Global)

For more than 30 years, optimists about technology have been telling us that the internet is transforming our economies. What is the evidence that this has happened, or is happening, in low- or middle-income countries? And if the promise has not been fulfilled, why not? Lin Tian is one of the authors of a new paper that examines the evidence so far. She talks to Tim Phillips about what the research is telling us. Read the full show notes on VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/macroeconomics-growth/how-does-internet-connectivity-impact-developing-economies

In this week's episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we bring you coverage of the annual S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit held in London on May 8.   We sit down with panelists on the sidelines of the event to discuss key conference themes, including data challenges related to climate, nature and the energy transition; the role that technology and innovation can play in addressing these challenges and the potentially transformative role of AI; and the challenge of sustaining economic growth in emerging markets while accelerating the transition.    "We don't have enough actual innovation, we don't actually have enough quantum of finance going into developing countries," says Sagarika Chatterjee, Climate Finance Director and Finance Lead for the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. "This is absolutely critical because this is where a lot of the emissions is going to come from. We can't change the past and the energy system of the past, but we can try to change the carbon that we have in future.”    For emerging markets and developing countries, "the lack of data is the biggest problem," says Budha Bhattacharya, Head of Systematic Research at Lombard Odier Investment Managers. If companies in developing economies embrace sustainability, "a huge amount of capital unlocks," he tells us.    Christopher Johnstone, a partner at management consultant Oliver Wyman, highlights the need for more asset-specific data to understand how companies will be impacted by climate change and biodiversity loss, and he explains the role AI could play here. He also talks to us about how approaches to sustainability are evolving around the world.    "Historically people have seen the climate, sustainability or the ESG agenda as being a very Western agenda," Christopher says. "What I am more and more seeing is this is a core topic across lots of different emerging market economies — even a large number of economies that would traditionally be seen as oil-based. They see the energy transition as actually being a key economic enabler and a growth lever as they look to move away from oil over time."    Listen to our interview from the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit with International Sustainability Standards Board Vice Chair Sue Lloyd: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/issb-vice-chair-sue-lloyd-talks-aligning-sustainability-standards-across-jurisdictions      Less than half of the leading listed companies in the US have a net-zero target, according to the S&P Global Sustainable1 Net-Zero Commitments Tracker dataset. Read the research: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/featured/special-editorial/net-zero-commitments-are-still-the-exception-for-top-us-companies-not-the-rule      Read our research that uses the S&P Global Sustainable1 Nature & Biodiversity Risk Dataset to assess nature-related impacts and dependencies across a company's direct operations: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/featured/special-editorial/how-the-world-s-largest-companies-depend-on-nature-and-biodiversity     Read research that uses the S&P Global Sustainable1 Physical Risk Exposure Scores and Financial Impact dataset to quantify the financial costs of climate change physical risks for companies: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/featured/special-editorial/quantifying-the-financial-costs-of-climate-change-physical-risks    We'll be back next week with more coverage from the S&P Global Sustainable1 Summit in London. The next leg of the Summit will take place in Tokyo on June 6. 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Often when we talk about competition between two nations, the US and China is the perfect example for today, we get arguments that are boiled down to broad ideas; like East vs the West and capitalism vs communism. But when we do this, we often lose a lot of nuance and miss some important details. Not too long ago, the US and the West were competing with the USSR and pooled their resources towards containing the spread of communism. Fast forward to now and some of the satellite states and former Soviet Union nations have turned into development success stories. Nations like Poland have increased their GDP by 179% since the fall of the USSR in 1990; Estonia's GDP per capita in 1995 was $3,134, and in 2021 it's just below $28,000. Dr. Gevorkyan received his bachelor's degree in International Trade and Finance from Louisiana State University, two master's in Economics from The New School and Louisiana State University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the New School. He is an expert on Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union economies. He is the author of numerous journals and articles, as well as the author of two books: "Transition Economies" and "Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets." He is a professor and Henry George Chair in Economics at St. John's University, as well as a member here at the Henry George School. Together, we discussed some recent economic and political trends within the region, changes to the overall base and superstructure of the economy, and why a poly-crisis may not be as bad as it seems. To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: ⁠https://www.hgsss.org/⁠ Podcasts and Publications Mentioned: How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment on The Ezra Klein Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-martin-wolf-understands-this-global-economic-moment/id1548604447?i=1000623031651 Gevorkyan, A.V. (ed.). 2023. Foreign Exchange Constraint and Developing Economies. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/foreign-exchange-constraint-and-developing-economies-9781800880498.html Gevorkyan, A.V. 2018. Transition Economies: Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Oxford: Routledge. https://goo.gl/otvbQe Minsky, H. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy  https://www.amazon.com/Stabilizing-Unstable-Economy-Hyman-Minsky/dp/0071592997 Kondratieff, N. (1935), ‘The Long Waves in Economic Life,' Review of Economics and Statistics, 18 (6), 105–115. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smart-talk-hgsss/support

In an increasingly interconnected world, the advent of mobile banking has ushered in a transformative era. Access to mobile banking can have a profound impact on people in developing economies. The impact of mobile banking extends beyond individual lives – it ripples through entire communities, affecting aspects such as migration and inequality. Dr Saravana Ravindran, Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, studies challenges and potential policy solutions relating to migration, including mobile banking and digital financial services. He has conducted research into whether mobile technology can reduce inequality by modernising traditional ways to transfer money. He joins us to explore the socio-economic impact of mobile banking on communities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steven Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and previously was the director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. Steve joins David on Macro Musings to talk about the US dollar and its implications for policy and the economy. Specifically, David and Steven discuss the effects of Fed policy on emerging markets, the factors that are driving a higher global equilibrium real interest rate, how to reconcile the domestic and international impacts of Fed policy, and more.   Transcript for this week's episode.   Steven's Twitter: @steven_kamin Steven's AEI profile   David Beckworth's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings   Join the Macro Musings mailing list! Check out our new Macro Musings merch!   Related Links:   *Will the Strong Dollar Trigger a Global Recession?* by Steven Kamin   *How Do Rising US Interest Rates Affect Emerging and Developing Economies? It Depends* by Steven Kamin, Carlos Arteta, and Franz Ulrich   *Are Higher US Interest Rates Always Bad News for Emerging Markets?* by Steven Kamin, Jasper Hoek, and Emre Yoldas

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On February 15, 2023, Social Science Matrix was honored to host Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for a Matrix Distinguished Lecture entitled "Reimagining Global Integration." Abstract Whether they live in vast cities or rural villages, people in virtually every corner of the world have experienced enormous growth in cross-border economic, political, and social connections since World War II. This latest chapter in the story of transnational activity has coincided with enormous changes in the well-being of billions of people. As China gained access to global markets and its share of worldwide trade increased eight-fold in a single generation, for example, the percentage of its population living in extreme poverty plunged from 72 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2010. Global life expectancy has risen from less than 47 years in 1950 to 71 years in 2021, and the male-female gap in primary and secondary schooling globally has almost disappeared. But increased cross-border trade, migration, flows of information, and political ties have also engendered an intense backlash to “globalization” and related concepts. Today, at a time of major geopolitical upheaval and technological change, policymakers and the public are vigorously debating the merits of domestic policies suitable for an interconnected world. They are exploring new trade and migration rules, reviving strategies for national industrial and technological development, and reflecting on the lessons of 1990s-style globalization for international law and institutions substantially influenced by the United States. Discussions of “reshoring” supply chains and United States-China economic “decoupling” are just two examples of rising concerns in Washington about cross-border ties. Yet global cooperation remains vital to solving many of humanity's most urgent challenges: mitigating and adapting to climate change, harnessing technology for the benefit of humanity while taming its risks, reducing poverty, and preventing violent conflict. By better understanding the long-simmering conflicts over global cooperation and integration, policymakers and civil society can further develop the ideas, institutions, and coalitions necessary to create a stable foundation for a more reflective version of global integration: one that addresses the connections between economic well-being and security, and better aligns domestic realities with international norms to tackle the pressing issues of our time. About the Speaker A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar served two U.S. presidents at the White House and in federal agencies, and was a faculty member at Stanford University for two decades. Before serving on California's highest court, Justice Cuéllar was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. In this capacity, he oversaw programs on international security, governance and development, global health, cyber policy, migration, and climate change and food security. Previously, he co-directed the Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation and led its Honors Program in International Security. While serving in the Obama White House as the president's special assistant for justice and regulatory policy, he led the Domestic Policy Council teams responsible for civil and criminal justice reform, public health, immigration, transnational regulatory issues, and supporting the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. He then co-chaired the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission, and was a presidential appointee to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. As a California Supreme Court justice, he oversaw reforms of the California court system's operations to better meet the needs of millions of limited-English speakers. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cuéllar is the author of Governing Security: The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies (2013) and has published widely on American institutions, international affairs, and technology's impact on law and government. Cuéllar co-authored the first ever report on the use of artificial intelligence across federal agencies. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Social and Ethical Implications of Computing Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Action. He chairs the board of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and is a member of the Harvard Corporation. He currently serves on the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Earlier, he chaired the boards of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, and co-chaired the Obama Biden Presidential Transition Task Force on Immigration. Born in Matamoros, Mexico, he grew up primarily in communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. He graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, and received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He began his career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Panel: The Challenges, Successes, and Sustainability of NSF National Research Traineeships (NRTs) on Food, Energy, and Water Systems (FEWS) Panelists: Karletta Chief, PhD, Director, Indigenous Resilience Center; Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona Amy R. Sapkota, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health Yael Perez, PhD, Development Engineering Program Director at the Blum Center and the InFEWS Program Coordinator Joining us from three different NSF research traineeships on food, energy, and water systems (FEWS), our panelists will share each programs' challenges, opportunities, and sustainability. Abstract The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks to explore ways for graduate students in research-based master's and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Join us as the GES Center hosts a panel to learn about three NRT programs focused on Food, Energy and Water Systems (FEWS). Now that the programs have finished and/or are close to finishing, what future lies for their continuation? What lessons have they learned about implementing an interdisciplinary and convergent research program? We will discuss each programs' challenges, opportunities, and sustainability with the traineeship. Our speakers include: Dr. Karletta Chief with Indige-FEWSS (Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty) at the University of Arizona, Dr. Amy Sapkota with the Global STEWARDS (STEM Training at the Nexus of Energy, WAter Reuse and FooD Systems) program at the University of Maryland, and Dr. Yael Perez with InFEWS (Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems) at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California Berkeley. Related links: Indige-FEWSS UMD Global STEWARDS InFEWS NSF Program abstracts and resulting publications: – Indige-FEWSS: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735173 – UMD Global STEWARDS: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1828910 – InFEWS: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1633740 Panelist Bios Dr. Karletta Chief (Diné) is a Professor and Extension Specialist in Environmental Science at the University of Arizona. Dr. Chief works to bring relevant water science to Native American communities in a culturally sensitive manner. As Director of the Indigenous Resilience Center, she aims to facilitate efforts of UArizona climate/environment researchers, faculty, staff, and students working with Native Nations to build resiliency to climate impacts and environmental challenges. Two of her primary tribal projects are The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Climate Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge Project and Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project. Dr. Chief also leads the NSF Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty Program and is training 38 graduate students. Indige-FEWSS's vision is to develop a diverse workforce with intercultural awareness and expertise in sustainable food, energy, and water systems (FEWS), specifically through off grid technologies to address the lack of safe water, energy, and food security in Indigenous communities. Dr. Amy Sapkota is an MPower Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is the Interim Director of the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the Director of CONSERVE: A Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food & Health that was launched with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture in 2016. She is also the Principal Investigator of a doctoral training program, UMD Global STEWARDS (STEM Training at the Nexus of Energy, WAter Reuse and FooD Systems)—funded by the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program—that is preparing a cadre of future leaders focused on innovations at the nexus of food, energy and water systems. Dr. Sapkota's research interests lie in the areas of environmental microbiology, environmental microbial genomics and exposure assessment. Her projects evaluate the complex relationships between environmental microbial exposures and human infectious diseases, with a special focus on assessing the public health impacts associated with water reuse. Dr.  Yael Perez is the Development Engineering (DevEng) Program Director at UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies, managing the DevEng Masters and the DevEng PhD Designated Emphasis. Yael holds a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley with a scholarship on co-design methodologies and technologies to support and empower communities and design practitioners in fostering sustainable development. For over a decade, she has been collaboratively leading CARES—Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability—a team of UC Berkeley faculty and students working with Native American Citizens in their pursuit of sustainable development. Recently, this initiative grew into the Native FEWS Alliance, a cross-institutional collaboration working to significantly broaden the participation of Native American students in Food, Energy, and Water Systems (FEWS) education and careers to address critical challenges facing their communities. Before joining the Blum Center, Yael was a visiting scholar at IIT Mandi (India). GES Colloquium (GES 591-002) is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will generally be live-streamed via Zoom, with monthly in-person meetings in the 1911 Building, Room 129. Please subscribe to the GES newsletter and Twitter for updates. 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Developing countries face the dual challenge of meeting rapidly growing energy demand while also scaling clean energy to avoid dramatic increases in carbon emissions. But financing all of those clean energy projects can be tough. Emerging and developing economies need clean energy investments. Researchers estimate that they will need anywhere between $1-2 trillion per year for the next 30 years to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Most of that capital will need to come from the private sector. Multilateral development banks are working to fill the gap and catalyze private finance. But they still have to work through unique financial, policy, and technical challenges in emerging and developing economies. So what are these barriers? And how do we overcome them to mobilize more capital for clean energy projects across the developing world? This week, we're re-running host Jason Bordoff's interview with Mafalda Duarte. Mafalda is the CEO of Climate Investment Funds, one of the most ambitious efforts to finance clean energy projects in developing and middle-income countries.  In September, Jason and Mafalda discussed opportunities for financing the clean energy transition in emerging economies—including an ambitious new effort to phase out coal in parts of Africa and Asia.

Utilities in developing countries are juggling a complex set of problems: How to extend electricity to those who don't have it; how to deploy large-scale power generation to power economic growth; and how to pursue these goals while decarbonizing.  In this episode, guest host Lara Pierpoint talks to Kate Steel, CEO of Nithio, a finance company focused on off-grid clean energy in Africa. Kate and Lara discuss the options for separating economic growth from fossil fuels. And she argues that we have the technology to develop low-carbon electrified economies in developing economies; we just need to deploy it. Lara and Kate weigh in on:  The tension between expanding access to low-cost power and attracting investment in large-scale baseload generation Why off-grid solar is often more economically viable than diesel generators for rural electrification How canceled power purchase agreements have stymied the development of renewables and how to solve these financing challenges  “Reverse” tech transfer from developing countries to developed ones, such as hyper-efficient appliances  Options for off-grid power, such as lanterns, microgrids, microhydro, biogas and liquefied petroleum gas canisters. How transportation may leapfrog fossil fuels in developing countries with electric motorbikes, buses and cars Recommended Resources: Canary Media: COP26 players pledge funding to shut down coal plants Bloomberg: A New Era of Climate Disasters Revives Calls for Climate Reparations Canary Media: Expanding solar access in Africa through artificial intelligence Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy: Roadmap to Zero-Carbon Electrification of Africa Catalyst is a co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media. Catalyst is supported by Scale Microgrid Solutions, your comprehensive source for all distributed energy financing. Distributed generation can be complex. Scale makes financing it easy. Visit scalecapitalsolutions.com to learn more. Catalyst is supported by CohnReznick, a trusted partner for navigating the complex and evolving financial, tax and regulatory landscape of the renewable sector. Visit cohnreznick.com to learn more.

Developing countries face the dual challenge of meeting rapidly growing energy demand while also scaling clean energy to avoid dramatic increases in carbon emissions. But financing all of those clean energy projects can be tough. Emerging and developing economies need clean energy investments. Researchers estimate that they will need anywhere between $1-2 trillion per year for the next 30 years to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Most of that capital will need to come from the private sector. Multilateral development banks are working to fill the gap and catalyze private finance. But they still have to work through unique financial, policy, and technical challenges in emerging and developing economies. So what are these barriers? And how do we overcome them to mobilize more capital for clean energy projects across the developing world? This week, host Jason Bordoff talks with Mafalda Duarte. Mafalda is the CEO of Climate Investment Funds, one of the most ambitious efforts to finance clean energy projects in developing and middle-income countries.  Since 2015 she's led efforts all over the world to help countries build climate-resilient economies by innovating ways to mobilize capital. She has extensive experience  managing climate-related portfolios and leading policy projects in more than 30 countries around the world.  Jason and Mafalda discuss opportunities for financing the clean energy transition in emerging economies—including an ambitious new effort to phase out coal in parts of Africa and Asia.

People throughout history have imagined ideal societies of various sorts. As the twentieth century dawned, advances in manufacturing and communication arguably brought the idea of utopia within our practical reach, at least as far as economic necessities are concerned. But we failed to achieve it, to say the least. Brad DeLong's new book, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, investigates why. He compares the competing political and economic systems that dominated the “long 20th century” from 1870 to 2010, and how we managed to create such enormous wealth and still be left with such intractable problems.Support Mindscape on Patreon.J. Bradford DeLong received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He is currently a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. and chief economist at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. He has been a long-running blogger, now moved to Substack. He is a co-editor of The Economists' Voice.Web siteBerkeley web pageSubstack/blogGoogle Scholar publicationsPodcast (with Noah Smith)WikipediaTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 2017, leading AI expert Kai-Fu Lee shared a dire prediction: half of all jobs – both blue collar and white collar – could be automated within ten years, replacing the workforce with solutions built on artificial intelligence. Brad and Kai-Fu discuss what this coming change means for national economies and for people who care about their work. Kai-Fu lays out practical steps policy makers can take today to prepare, the three areas he believes human intelligence will continue to lead, and why he remains an AI optimist.Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has driven innovation in AI research and development for over three decades. He is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture's Artificial Intelligence Institute. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. In the field of AI, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion, as well as the world's first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. His bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI, as well as the greater societal impacts wrought by the AI technology revolution. His new co-authored book AI 2041 explores how AI will change our world over the next 20 years.Click here for the episode transcript.

There are ups and there are downs this week, plus everything in between. While there may be rough news, there is also great news, especially with adoption of crypto and new funding. Week 28, Year 2022, Episode 18. Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro Song (00:00:23) Introduction (00:00:43) Disclosures (00:01:14) Ethereum Merge Updated For Release in September (00:01:46) Celsius Network Files for Chapter 11 (00:02:02) Celsius Mining Division Files for Bankruptcy As Well (00:02:15) CoinFlex Arbitration To Recover $84 Million (00:02:23) Terra Switches to Polygon (00:02:32) Senator Lummis On gm Podcast (00:03:01) $2 Billion Valuation for Former Meta Exec (00:03:16) Gary Gensler Article on WSJ (00:03:25) New Brazilian Crypto Exchange (00:03:37) G20 Robust Crypto Rules Coming In October (00:03:46) GameStop Opens Ethereum NFT Marketplace (00:04:00) BlockFi CEO Doesn't Want To Be Compared to Others (00:04:30) Three Arrows Woes (00:04:36) $7.1 Billion Lightspeed Ventures Funding (00:04:51) Kevin O'Leary Mr. Wonderful on Crypto (00:05:04) Singapore Crypto Aspirations Shaken (00:05:22) Voyager Updates (00:05:44) Celsius Reclaims $410 Million stETH (00:06:23) Celsius Hires New Restructuring Lawyers (00:06:40) Crypto To Pay Salaries in Developing Economies (00:06:53) CoinFlex Takes Legal Action (00:07:07) 3AC Updates (00:07:24) Charlie Munger Crypto Quotes (00:07:58) Bitcoin Mining Rig Prices Slump (00:08:14) Crypto Miner CleanSpark Building (00:08:28) India's Crypto Advocacy Group Disbanded (00:08:41) Brazilian Congress Postpones Crypto Bill Vote (00:08:54) Latin American Crypto Report (00:09:09) The Affect of Three Arrows Capital (00:09:20) OpenSea Lays Off 20% of Staff (00:09:48) Mastercard Crypto Efforts in Indonesia (00:10:03) Anthony Pompliano Helps Crypto Recruitment Firm (00:10:20) Vitalik on PoS (00:10:40) Former Ripple Advisor to Supervise the Fed (00:10:57) New York Yankee's Players and Staff Can Convert Salary Into Bitcoin (00:11:15) In Closing -------------------------------------------------- Fort Brox Affiliate Links: Koinly Crypto Tax Software:

In this episode of Interpreting India, Radhika Pandey joins Suyash Rai to analyze why India and other major economies are experiencing high inflation, the measures that have been taken to control inflation, the expected impact of these measures on economic growth, and the future course of action.Episode ContributorsRadhika Pandey is a Senior Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and has twenty years of teaching and research experience in macroeconomics and financial policy. Her academic work focuses on macroeconomics, business cycles, financial policy, and regulation. She has been part of a number of Ministry of Finance instituted committees and writes regularly on contemporary economic issues.Suyash Rai is a deputy director and fellow at Carnegie India. His research focuses on the political economy of economic reforms, and the performance of public institutions in India.--

I interview Dr. Asish Sharma,  Founder of  Sustainability Alternatives. The conversation revolves around the importance of Air Quality and its impact on the most vulnerable people within society. Dr. Sharma also outlines various models of mitigation and technologies that can be used in developed and developing economies. 

"We are now facing a perfect storm that threatens to devastate the economies of developing countries." So says the United Nations Secretary General at the launch of a brief on the impact of the war in Ukraine on food, energy and finance systems globally - an initiative of a Global Crisis Response Group established by the UN Chief in March led by his deputy Amina Mohammed. The war has resulted in disrupted supply chains and rising prices for food, fuel and fertilizer. The UN has called for member states and international financial institutions to make reserves available to countries at risk of hunger and famine, avoid protectionism while ensuring that humanitarian appeals are fully funded- warning that Africa is being particularly affected by the spillover effects of the war. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports....

The World Bank has issued a stark warning on how developing economies are going to be damaged by the Russia-Ukraine war. Caoimhe de Barra, CEO of Trócaire, and Dr. Ian Madison of the London School of Economics join us now to discuss.

In today's episode, we'd like to re-broadcast a previous episode, in which Ang Zhao from REEI and Dr. Kenji Otsuka from the Institute of Developing Economies discussed the role of non-state actors in environmental governance in the Northeast Asia region. In 2021, we saw that non-state actors, including NGOs and industries, have been playing an increasingly significant roles in the global governance on climate related policy issues. We think the discussion may help our listeners to understand why the non-state actors matter in public policy debates despite of the different social and political contexts across countries.

Developing countries are facing a difficult time in defending their interests within the WTO as the trade body has been crippled by the US for years. With China having become a major player in global trade since its WTO accession, can it lead developing-country members to safeguard their own interests as the WTO carries out reforms? For answers to this and other questions, join host Tu Yun and Rodrigo Zeidan, Associate Professor of Practice of Business and Finance, New York University Shanghai, in this episode of our special series on the 20th anniversary of China's WTO accession.

China is Brazil's largest trading partner and Brazil is China's largest trading partner in the Latin American region. How has trade between the two, both belonging to the community of developing economies and emerging markets, contributed to world economic growth, ever since China joined the WTO in 2001? What are some valuable experiences and lessons in the China-Brazil collaboration in terms of improving global governance? In this episode of our special series on China's WTO accession, our host Liu Kun talks to Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, Brazil's Ambassador to China. He was involved with Brazil-China bilateral negotiations during China's accession to the WTO 20 years ago. From 2003 to 2011, he served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other international organizations in Geneva.

Lo scorso 26 novembre ha preso il via la nuova rubrica di Stroncature diretta da Maurizio Sgroi e Roberto Menotti. La prima puntata dal titolo “Il debito misterioso” ha avuto come ospite Diego Rivetti, Senior Debt Specialist della Banca Mondiale, e è stata incentrata sulla presentazione del Rapporto della Banca Mondiale “Debt Transparency in Developing Economies”.

China is Brazil's largest trading partner and Brazil is China's largest trading partner in the Latin American region. How has trade between the two, both belonging to the community of developing economies and emerging markets, contributed to world economic growth, ever since China joined the WTO in 2001? What are some valuable experiences and lessons in the China-Brazil collaboration in terms of improving global governance?   Our host Liu Kun talked to Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, Brazil's Ambassador to China. He was involved with Brazil-China bilateral negotiations during China's accession to the WTO 20 years ago. From 2003 to 2011, he served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other international organizations in Geneva.

We all know about the all-too-familiar retail apocalypse that led to closures of many brick-and-mortar chains due to the ‘08 financial crisis and the e-commerce boom, but it's not over yet. In this episode, we talk about shifts in consumer behavior, how retailers should cope with the current pandemic and how they can prepare for the future. Meet our guests: V. “Paddy” Padmanabhan is the Unilever Professor of Marketing, INSEAD-Singapore and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute, INSEAD. His current research focuses on Business Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Economies, Economic Crises and their implications, Pricing and Supply Chain Management. He is among the top 250 most highly cited scholars in the world in Economics and Business. Molly Hartney comes with more than 10+ years of retail experience as a results-driven executive leader, known for scaling businesses quickly with a unique mix of driving strategy, building talent, and leveraging a customer-centric approach. She most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Digital with Funko. Prior to that she spent 8 years in various leadership positions at Lowe's Home Improvement. Get the Show Notes Season One of the podcast is in partnership with INSEAD.

Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), talks about their newest innovative programs, like the UNCDF 500. This initiative will support 500 companies in the LDCs (Least Developed Countries), focusing on women's economic development, climate change, and biodiversity. And their newly launched partnership with 100 Women in Finance, which has 20,000 members worldwide, will support women leaders in African economies as well as mentor young women to become future leaders. We discuss how these and other UNCDF initiatives in collaboration with official lenders make long-term sustainable finance available to developing countries by extending maturities on lending programs.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our Contributing Editor Christopher P. Cavas discusses the US Navy Third Fleet’s manned-unmanned teaming experimentation off San Diego and Jonathan Hillman, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Economics Program and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, discusses the new report — “Global Networks 2030: Developing Economies and Emerging Technologies — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

P.M. Edition for April 8. The global economy is making a comeback. This week, the IMF upgraded its growth expectations, powered by gains in the U.S. and China. But many developing nations and emerging markets are being left behind, due to a lack of access to vaccines and other challenges. WSJ Africa Deputy Bureau Chief Gabriele Steinhauser joins host Annmarie Fertoli with more on the disparities in the global recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOOK LAUNCH Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World FEB 4, 2021 - 08:30 AM TO 09:30 AM EST The changing global landscape, combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding, means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food value chains, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting gender equity and equality. Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change. In this four-part volume, top experts offer the latest research in the field of agricultural development. Hear from the book’s editors and discussants on policy options and strategies for developing sustainable agriculture and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. Book Overview: -Keijiro Otsuka, Professor of Development Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan & Chief senior researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo -Shenggen Fan, Chair professor, College of Economics Management & Dean of the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University, Beijing; and CGIAR System Board Member Discussants: -William Masters, Director, IMMANA Fellowships Program & Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University -Will Martin, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Moderator: -Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI LINKS: Agricultural Development: New Perspectives In A Changing World: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world Agricultural Development: New Perspectives In A Changing World: Synopsis: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world-synopsis More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world

With the Biden administration taking office, COVID rampant, vaccine disbursement beginning, and businesses and individual Americans reeling from financial burdens, what is the outlook for the economy in 2021? Join us for a lively and important discussion on where the U.S. and global economies are headed and what should be done to keep them on track. Michael J. Boskin is T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1989 to 1993. The independent Council for Excellence in Government rated Dr. Boskin's CEA one of the five most respected agencies (out of 100) in the federal government. He chaired the highly influential blue-ribbon Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity. Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an influential scholar of economics and public policy and an expert on trade and competitiveness who has also served as a presidential adviser. She is a distinguished professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She also chairs the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies, which aims to develop solutions to global poverty. She is the former faculty director of the Berkeley Haas Institute for Business and Social Impact, which she launched in 2013. She served as interim dean of the Haas School from July to December 2018, and served previously as dean from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Tyson was a member of President Clinton's cabinet between 1993 and 1996. She served as chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and as director of the White House National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. She was the first woman to serve in those positions. This event is underwritten by Bank of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artificial intelligence and robots are revolutionizing production processes across the globe, but what countries stand to gain most from these new technologies? Economists Andy Berg and Chris Papageorgiou are coauthors of a new study that suggests the so-called AI revolution may widen the gap between rich and poor countries. Transcript Read the blog

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We all know about the all-too-familiar retail apocalypse that led to closures of many brick-and-mortar chains due to the ‘08 financial crisis and the e-commerce boom, but it's not over yet. In this episode, we talk about shifts in consumer behavior, how retailers should cope with the current pandemic and how they can prepare for the future. Meet our guests: V. “Paddy” Padmanabhan is the Unilever Professor of Marketing, INSEAD-Singapore and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute, INSEAD. His current research focuses on Business Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Economies, Economic Crises and their implications, Pricing and Supply Chain Management. He is among the top 250 most highly cited scholars in the world in Economics and Business. Molly Hartney comes with more than 10+ years of retail experience as a results-driven executive leader, known for scaling businesses quickly with a unique mix of driving strategy, building talent, and leveraging a customer-centric approach. She most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Digital with Funko. Prior to that she spent 8 years in various leadership positions at Lowe's Home Improvement. Get the Show Notes Season One of the podcast is in partnership with INSEAD.

This is an episode of “Why Isn't It Working - Business & Tech Podcast” with hosts Karl Wood, Michael Hamilton and guests.Today's guest is David Davies. CEO at AgUnity with a focus on supporting farming communities in developing nations with their easy to use platform and mobile app. In this conversation we discuss David's background in banking, developing start-ups, how AgUnity is helping farmers in developing countries, the technology behind the platform, Agricultural innovation in Australia and much more. David can be reached through:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviesdavid/Learn more here: www.agunity.comFollow our progress here: www.linkedin.com/company/agunity/ and www.facebook.com/AgUnity --Why Isn't It Working - Business & Tech Podcast details:Join Karl Wood & Michael Hamilton to discuss all things business and technology. The guys will bring you stories from the business side of tech. With over 30 years of combined experience with strategic business & IT delivery. Karl and Michael will bring their true insights into IT and how they can help with your business.Follow “Why Isn't It Working” on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/karlmickpodcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/why-isn-t-it-working-business-tech-podcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/karlmickpodcast/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJ9jPaiU1OyKHOq-F3Kv4gListen and subscribe on the platform of your choice: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/why-isnt-it-working-business-tech-podcast/id1532844598Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93aHlpc250aXR3b3JraW5nLnBvZG9tYXRpYy5jb20vcnNzMi54bWw=Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24VoQLrMMNGwr0tC4O7MTy?si=pnqkhM9XQR-DZBeq8leisAPodomatic: https://whyisntitworking.podomatic.com/

Sinclair Skinner, an American engineer, human rights activist, political adviser and founder of ILoveBlackPeople.com, and Dr. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and president of the National Economic Association, join Political Misfits to discuss the ongoing protests in Nigeria and the role cryptocurrencies can play in protecting grassroots fundraising from hostile governments.

Global environmental governance has witnessed a trend that non-state actors have played an increasingly important role in the past two decades. particularly in European countries and Northern America. A study by two researchers from Institute of Developing Economies in Japan argues that similar governance changes have been emerging in northeast Asian countries even though this type of development has been observed mostly in western countries.The study was recently published in The Pacific Review and entitled Embryonic Forms of Private Environmental Governance in Northeast Asia. Do the authors overstate the role of non-state actors in the region? What are the barriers to prevent non-state actors from playing more active role in the environmental challenges such as air & water pollution, climate change, energy transition and so on?In this episode of REEI Energy and Climate Podcast, REEI’s Mr. Ang Zhao will discuss about these issues with Dr. Kenji Otsuka, one of two authors.

Joyce welcomes Makito Kamiya, CEO and founder of Associa, which provides social skills training at Associa Social University for people with cognitive disabilities, so they are more readily employable and Takanori Sai, Assistant to the Chairperson, DPI International to the show. Mr. Sai has overseen Japan's dealing with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), anti-discrimination law and disability inclusion in the workplace and education. Aside from his current job, he has been conducting research on regulations/laws on disabilities in Korea as an adjunct member of the JETRO Institute of Developing Economies. Discussed will be their individual work to advance the employment of people with disabilities. Among the topics discussed will be how Japan is addressing the effect of COVID-19 on individuals with disabilities and progress on the employment initiatives in Japan since Joyce's visit in 2018.

Joyce welcomes Makito Kamiya, CEO and founder of Associa, which provides social skills training at Associa Social University for people with cognitive disabilities, so they are more readily employable and Takanori Sai, Assistant to the Chairperson, DPI International to the show. Mr. Sai has overseen Japan’s dealing with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), anti-discrimination law and disability inclusion in the workplace and education. Aside from his current job, he has been conducting research on regulations/laws on disabilities in Korea as an adjunct member of the JETRO Institute of Developing Economies. Discussed will be their individual work to advance the employment of people with disabilities. Among the topics discussed will be how Japan is addressing the effect of COVID-19 on individuals with disabilities and progress on the employment initiatives in Japan since Joyce’s visit in 2018.

Diplomatic engagement is at an all-time high across Africa. How can multilateral cooperation effectively address challenges such as Covid-19 and regional security? Judd Devermont is joined by Payton Knopf (USIP), Nilanthi Samaranayake (CNA), and Housam Darwisheh (Institute of Developing Economies) to discuss India, Japan, and the Gulf's approach to the continent, the current state of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and the dispute over the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.  Background Readings: A Strategic Framework to Improve Coronavirus Response in Africa - Judd Devermont and Nilanthi Samaranayake How a Tiny Indian Ocean Island Could Force a US-UK Rift - Nilanthi Samaranayake What’s Ahead for the Horn of Africa in 2020 - Payton Knopf

Original publish date: August 19, 2020Inside this episode:Christian de Guzman of the Sovereign team discusses how lower wages and the fall in employment of migrant workers in advanced economies will result in a decline in remittances to some developing economies. Banking team analyst Nitish Bhojnagarwala talks about our outlook for the issuance of Islamic sukuk bonds.​Related content:Sukuk issuance set for modest decline despite coronavirus outbreakLower remittances after coronavirus to hurt consumption, raise external risks in major recipient countriesMoody's Emerging Markets Focus

Businesses fall into the trap of loving their products too much that they forget about their customers. As a result, they create products that people don’t need and want. Moving you from a product centricity model into customer centricity, Dr. Diane Hamilton talks to Dr. Mary Ritz, owner and founder of Almenta International, as she takes us into the insights and wisdom from her book, Customer Centricity: A Sense Making Framework for Developing Economies. She discusses the importance of accounting for how customers are always changing and evolving, affecting your products in return. She then shares about the customer cycle, the differences in customer experience in other economies, and the ways to navigate your business in this current COVID-19 environment. Putting your business up on social media is one thing. Reaching anyone online—no matter what level they are at—is another. This is one of the many struggles many businesses encounter when setting up their online presence. In this episode, Dr. Diane Hamilton brings over Dan Portik to help you do just that. Dan is the President of BVS Film Productions and the co-author of The Secret Online Door with Tom Hopkins. Taking us deeper into the online world, he shares with us his new book, Fill Your Funnel: Selling with Social Media, where he outlines in detail the successful online techniques he has used over the years to reach and negotiate with anyone at any level of success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take The Lead community today:DrDianeHamilton.comDr. Diane Hamilton FacebookDr. Diane Hamilton TwitterDr. Diane Hamilton LinkedInDr. Diane Hamilton YouTubeDr. Diane Hamilton Instagram

What's it like being a student at Stanford GSB? [Show summary] Ilana Walder-Biesanz’s eclectic background includes engineering, opera, product management, ballroom dance, data analytics, and theatre. In this episode, she shares why she also pursued an MBA from Stanford GSB. Should you include interests and experiences that are not directly business-related in your MBA application? Absolutely! [Show notes] This show's guest is a true Renaissance woman, currently interning for a company in Nigeria, after earning her MBA from Stanford GSB as a member of the Class of 2020. She also has a fascinating series of experiences before arriving at Stanford. Ilana Walder-Biesanz earned her bachelor's in engineering from the Olin College of Engineering in 2013. As a student at Olin, she also had an arts and humanities concentration in theater and founded the Olin Opera Organization. After graduating, she pursued her masters at the University of Cambridge in European Literature and Culture and was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She then studied for a year at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a Fulbright Scholar. Returning to the U.S., she worked for three years for Yahoo as a Product Manager and joined Stanford's GSB class of 2020, where she was a Siebel Scholar and an RJ Miller Scholar. She just became a data analyst marketing intern, working remotely for a Nigerian-based company on behalf of Stanford Seed, the Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies. And what I've told you is just the tip of the iceberg. Ilana has traveled extensively. Per her LinkedIn profile, she speaks English, Spanish, German, and Italian reasonably well, and some Japanese, French, and Hebrew. I'm not exaggerating when I say she is a true Renaissance woman. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? [2:26] I grew up in Portland, Oregon to two parents who had both studied theater in college and had started their careers as actors. So they pretty much pushed me onto the stage as soon as I could walk and talk. I think that's been a through-line of things I'm interested in throughout my life in engineering and business: I've been an avid actress and theater-goer. Dance came a little bit later. I was horribly graceless as a child, and my mother (who was actually also a dance teacher on the side) despaired of me and pulled me out of dance classes because I was so bad at it. But at some point later in life, I found my feet and really developed a passion for ballroom dancing. Can you go into a little more depth on how you developed your interest in engineering and analytics, along with your interest in opera, dance, and the humanities? [3:27] The humanities and opera and dance definitely came first. I actually discovered engineering through Girl Scouts probably when I was eight or nine. My Girl Scout troop went to a Lego Robotics sampler. Just a day where we all built robots out of Legos together. I thought it was the coolest thing. I signed up for Lego Robotics after school and eventually graduated to building robots out of metal instead of Legos. I did that throughout middle school and high school and that was what sparked the interest in engineering and in building robots, which is pretty much what I did for my four years of my engineering degree. Why did you decide to go for an MBA? [4:25] I was working in tech as a product manager, and I think there were two things that sparked the MBA decision there. One was I felt like in my role as a product manager, a really solid grasp of business was what I was lacking most. I had the communication skills, I had the technical background, but product managers make a lot of business strategy decisions. I felt like I was Googling around for things and didn't really have a solid framework or understanding of the best way to approach those. I also had a hypothesis that I wanted to move out of product management and be more directly involved in the business side of things and swit...

In this episode we interview Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fifteen books, is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, “Inequality For All.” More recently he’s co-creator of the Netflix original documentary “Saving Capitalism,” which is streaming now and author of the newly released “The SYSTEM: Who Rigged It, How to Fix It” which is available via Penguin Random House or your independent bookseller. Professor Reich in this episode shares hard facts, learnings from his experience, and inspiration to help shape our future for the better.

Why do trade barriers remain high in developing countries despite the significant potential to drive economic growth through trade? Advanced economies have mostly removed tariffs and other barriers to trade. By contrast, in many developing countries such barriers remain in spite of the huge potential to drive economic growth through trade. In this VoxDev talk, David Atkin and Amit Khandelwal discuss their new paper on trade in developing economies. They argue that we think about trade policy often through neoclassical models that emphasise perfect competition. Whilst this way of thinking may suit environments in advanced economies, it does not resemble the realities on ground in developing countries.     Read “How distortions alter the impact of international trade in developing countries” by David Atkin and Amit Khandelwal here (https://www.nber.org/papers/w26230) .

For wealthy economies the virus is relatively manageable but developing countries face a much more acute crisis says Martin Wolf.

A new ebook from the CEPR and the International Development Policy Journal discusses the threat to developing and emerging economies from the pandemic, and what we can do about it. Ugo Panizza is one of the editors, and he joins Tim Phillips to discuss capital flight, conflict, and what advanced economies and can do to help. Download Covid in Developing Economies (https://voxeu.org/content/covid-19-developing-economies) - it's free.

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed is Joint Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). He is a former civil servant and has served as an Advisor to UNDP. He has also undertaken assignments with Asian Development Bank, World Bank Group, and Ministries of Finance, Planning and Commerce in Pakistan. He is joined by John Morell, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at CIPE, to discuss the disruptive effects of COVID-19 on supply chains in Pakistan, the Belt and Road Initiative's projects in Pakistan, and much more.

When we discuss financial inclusion, specifically in regards to women, the conversation often focuses on developing markets and least developed countries. But challenges to financial inclusion exist for women in developed economies as well, including the United States. So, what are the lessons we can take from developed economies that we can apply to the last mile, and vice versa? In what would be the last episode we recorded before the COVID-19 outbreak, Episode 16 of Capital Musings featured Lauren Silbert, VP and General Manager of the personal finance website, The Balance. Lauren shared her thoughts on the challenges of financial inclusion and financial literacy for women in the U.S. and what lessons we can apply to the LDCs.

The COVID-19 virus has plunged the world into a high level of uncertainty and without a doubt, many developing countries are feeling that brunt. With The Economist having hailed this the African decade and many looking to the promises of Frontier Markets as “the next big thing”, what are their outlooks in a post-coronavirus world now that a deep recession is likely? Joining us to discuss more are Gavin Serkins (Managing Editor of New Markets Media and Intelligence), Andres Alma (Congressional Candidate and Professor of Law at Universidad APEC in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and Michael Nderitu (Chief Risk Officer at AZA in Kenya) to discuss the African, Latin American and Frontier Market perspective.

Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab, is helping developing countries around the globe create capacity to model the coronavirus pandemic and develop economic and epidemiological responses. The Growth Lab COVID-19 Task Force explores the macroeconomic and fiscal implications of the pandemic and offers strategic guidance on policy decisions for collaborating nations including Albania, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Namibia, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia. For more about this effort, Growth Lab COVID-19 Task Force, please visit the Growth Lab COVID-19 Task Force home page.Under Hausmann’s leadership, the Growth Lab, which is based in the Center for International Development, has grown into one of the world’s most well regarded and influential hubs for research on international development. Hausmann has served as principal investigator for more than 50 research initiatives in nearly 30 countries and is the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.

This is Listen to the Editors, a series of interviews with journal editors to unveil the trends in research for Operations and Supply Chain Management. In this episode, we are interviewing two of the guest editors for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) Special Issue on Covid-19, Chris Voss and Xiande Zhao. The host for this show is Iuri Gavronski, Associate Professor for the Graduate Program in Business for the UNISINOS Jesuit University. Listen to the editors is an initiative of the Operations and Supply Chain Management division of the Academy of Management. We post our interviews monthly in our division website. You can discuss any of the topics of this episode using our interactive tool, https://connect.aom.org. Using the discussion section of our site, you can also post suggestions for questions, journal editors you would like to hear from, and requests for clarifications. You can also subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or with the Podcast Addict app on Android. Website for the Journal: ======================== https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18731317 Call for Papers: ================ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/18731317/JOM%20CFP%20-%20COVID-19%20and%20Global%20Supply%20Chains-1586282145923.pdf Editors’ Bios: ============== Dr. Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His areas of specialization include global value chain innovations, supply chain management, global logistics, inventory modeling, and environmental and social responsibility. He was the founding director of the Stanford Institute for Innovations in Developing Economies, and is a co-director of the Stanford Value Chain Innovation Initiative. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. In 2006, he was President of the Production and Operations Management Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. Dr. Xiande Zhao is JD.COM Chair Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His recent research interests mostly focus on supply chain and business model innovations, supply chain finance, digital supply chain, and supply chain optimization using big data. He has published over 150 journal articles in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Consumer Research, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research and International Journal of Production Economics. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He is also the co-Chief Editor for Journal of Data, Information and Management. He is the founder and honourable president of Association of Supply Chain and Operations Management (ASCOM), and was the President of Asia Pacific Institute of Decision Sciences (APDSI). He also received more than 10 academic awards including the Jack Meredith best paper award from Journal of Operations Management. Dr. Xiang Li is a professor with the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His recent research interests mostly focus on transport management, logistics management, and optimization under uncertainty, big-data analytics and applications. He has published over 80 articles in international journals including Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Computer and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and so on. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Data, Information and Management, Associate Editor for Information Sciences, Transportmetrica B, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, and editorial board member for International Journal of General Systems. He was the president of International Conference on Intelligent Transportation and Logistics with Big Data (2017, 2018, and 2019). Dr. Chris Voss is Professor of Operations Management at Warwick Business School and Emeritus Professor of Operations Management at London Business School where he has served as deputy dean. His recent research has included supply-chain management, service supply chains, architecture and modularity, e-services, and service innovation. He has published in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transactions, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Science Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Journal of Production Economics, and Journal of Service Research. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Service Research. He was co-founder and long-term chair of the European Operations Management Association, and serves on several editorial boards. He has received many academic awards including distinguished scholar of the OM division of the Academy of Management. Deadlines: ========== The full-paper submission: January 31, 2021 First Round Review and decisions: April 30, 2021 Second Round Revision Submission: July 31, 2021 Final round review and decisions: September 30, 2021 Acknowledgements: ================= Background music: ================= “Night & Day” by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/years_and_years_ago/08--Dee_Yan-Key-Night___Day 2020-04-14 - Episode 014

The pandemic is hitting emerging markets particularly hard, and the crisis is likely to widen the gap between the strongest and the weakest among them. Physical distancing is making life even harder for people with dementia, and their carers. And a few tips on learning a new language in lockdown.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The pandemic is hitting emerging markets particularly hard, and the crisis is likely to widen the gap between the strongest and the weakest among them. Physical distancing is making life even harder for people with dementia, and their carers. And a few tips on learning a new language in lockdown.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new world order approaches amidst the crashing markets, the COVId-19 pandemic and the palaver in the global Oil sector. It is pertinent to understand what skills are required to adapt to the new system; which jobs will phase out; which opportunities will present themselves and how to leverage on them. Investment enthusiasts and Entrepreneurs interested in developing African Republics must know what impact 5G would have on governments, businesses and markets.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coronavirus coverage on a number of fronts. First, how frontline workers are impacted by and responding to the crisis. We speak with Henry D. Rose, the Field Director for Public Hospital Systems New York State Nurses Association. We also discuss how the pandemic has impacted immigrants in detention centers, specifically children and youth. We speak with Peter Schey, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. How will emerging and small economies be able to get the resources and funding they need to battle the coronavirus? We speak with Andrés Arauz, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coronavirus coverage on a number of fronts. First, how frontline workers are impacted by and responding to the crisis. We speak with Henry D. Rose, the Field Director for Public Hospital Systems New York State Nurses Association. We also discuss how the pandemic has impacted immigrants in detention centers, specifically children and youth. We speak with Peter Schey, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. How will emerging and small economies be able to get the resources and funding they need to battle the coronavirus? We speak with Andrés Arauz, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Presenting The World In You Panels, where you will find some of the most impeccable Panels on various collateral and contemporary issues of International Law and Relations. In Episode 2, we discuss Climate Change and Human Rights: Understanding Development and Entrepreneurship Anomalies in Developing Economies with Mr Salman Aneez Soz, Consultant to the World Bank Group, Mr Abhishek Jagini, Spokesperson, Bhartiya Janata Party and Member of the Art of Living, Mr Pratejas Tomar, President of the Permanent Executive Board of the Juris En Project & Ms Arushi Bajpai, Research Associate, Jindal Global University, India. We also have an additional critique by Dr Seema Singh, Asst Professor at University of Delhi, India. The talk is a part of The Juris En Conference on International Law, 2020. Internationalism, available at: Website: internationalism.co.in ____________________________________________ Also at: Facebook | Anchor.fm | Instagram | Twitter LinkedIn | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Spotify | Breaker | Castbox | Pocket Casts RadioPublic | Stitcher

Twenty-five years after apartheid officially ended in South Africa, the country is in the news for all the wrong reasons: one of the highest unemployment rates in the world at 58%, junk status government bonds, slowing GDP growth, and violent crime. Can President Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress turn things around as his administration approaches its first-year anniversary in office? Ann Bernstein, who heads the Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa’s leading policy center for social and economic development, joins Altamar to explain how the nation can tackle the myriad of challenges. Bernstein was a member of the Transition Team and later the Board of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and is the author of “The Case for Business in Developing Economies.”   https://altamar.us/south-africa-slump/ Follow us on Twitter and Facebook  ----- Produced by Simpler Media

What steps can we take in order to better our country by protecting the common interest of our workers? Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich arrived at Town Hall along with Washington’s 7th District Representative Pramila Jayapal for a Labor Day exploration of Reich’s latest book The Common Good. They offered their perspective on the state of American politics and the labor movement, and unpacked Reich’s powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, Reich demonstrated that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it—one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process, Reich asserts, can and must be reversed. Join Reich and Jayapal for a chance to weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we relate to labor, honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership. Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fifteen books, including the bestsellers Aftershock,The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal represents Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas including Shoreline, Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Edmonds and parts of Burien and Normandy Park. Congresswoman Jayapal is committed to ensuring that every resident of the district has economic opportunity; fairness and equity; and safe and healthy communities. Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the 2019 Homecoming Festival. Recorded live in the Great Hall on September 2, 2019. 

***This week on Stories of Mobile Madness*** Why the Zuckbuck will boost the informal economy in emerging markets, what Reuters write in this year's Digital News Report and how the business models of media are evolving. Want to watch our YouTube? Check it out https://youtu.be/L_2wZUqZF9I Want more? Here are our sources: http://tappable.to/somm-4-reuters http://tappable.to/somm-4-laterpay http://tappable.to/somm-4-digitalconsult http://tappable.to/somm-4-tappable http://tappable.to/somm-4-libra

Jehan Ara is a long-time CIPE partner, FEDN member, and President of the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) based in Islamabad. Jehan is a motivator, an entrepreneur, a social activist and a strong propagator of extending the power and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) beyond pure traditional business, to empower and enable communities.  In this episode, Jehan and CIPE's Regional Director for Global, Anna Kompanek, discuss some successes and challenges seen in Pakistan when it comes to advancing digital transformation of business, and the economy more broadly. They note that innovation and jobs increasingly depend on countries creating enabling environments for a digital economy. To learn more about Jehan's work with P@SHA, please visit their website and their tech incubator's website, called The Nest i/o.

Deregulation for the powerful is a central tenet of the trickle-down myth, embraced by Democrats and Republican alike. Government regulations, we’re told, are costly and inefficient intrusions that slow grow and kill jobs. But Robert Reich explains that when thoughtfully applied, regulations are absolutely essential to growing a safe, secure, and broadly prosperous economy.  Robert Reich: Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Author of fifteen books, including ‘The Common Good’. Co-creator of the documentaries ‘Inequality for All’ and ‘Saving Capitalism’.  Twitter: @RBReich  Facebook: Robert Reich  Further reading: Robert B. Reich: How Trump's war on regulation is trickle-down economics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samuel Martinet is a computer scientist and upcoming swiss entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Bytes. Join our conversation about Internet of Things, Developing Economies, IOTA and more. Sam is a member of the Nextblock Community Please find him here: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/slm15 https://twitter.com/samuelmartinet?lang=en

Developing countries need to urgently deal with an obesity “time bomb” ticking away in their economies, and which is already dragging down growth and driving up health costs. The World Health Organization says that in 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight and 650 million were obese, with the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripling since 1975. Mathias Helble and Azusa Sato investigate. Read the transcript https://bit.ly/2SaqUFd Read the report https://www.adb.org/publications/wealthy-unhealthy-overweight-and-obesity-asia-and-pacific-trends-costs-and-policies About the authors Mathias Helble is a former senior economist and co-chair of the Asian Development Bank Institute's Research Department in Tokyo. Azusa Sato is a health specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila. Know more about ADBI's work https://bit.ly/2LuBDaU https://bit.ly/2Re06XG

Developing economies often lack sophisticated equity markets, meaning that firms that are focused on innovation must rely on bank lending. But tight bank policies can undermine the culture of innovation that is essential to growth. Research conducted for the Asian Development Bank Institute concludes that deregulation creates a dynamic banking sector that, depending on the development stage, can either aid or hinder innovation. The gradual deregulation of US banks over 20 years since 1970 is particularly instructive. During this period, some US banks responded to deregulation by making credit more available to out-of-state firms. Others consolidated locally by opening new regional branches. Comparing the two patterns shows how extending credit markets aided innovation, while regional expansion generally hindered it. Read the transcript https://bit.ly/2lAx1Uw Read the report https://www.adb.org/publications/banking-and-innovation-review About the authors Chen Lin is a professor at the University of Hong Kong. Sibo Liu is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong. Lai Wei is an assistant professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. Know more about ADBI's work on banking https://bit.ly/2K8n5AH https://bit.ly/2K8ncfB

Robust institutions and low levels of corruption are more important to reducing hunger than population size or the state of a country's natural resources. Food security—the ability of a country to feed its people—will become even more important in coming years as Asia's population rises and resources grow scarcer. A study of 10 countries in Asia and the Middle East found that food security grows alongside the development of political democracy, economic growth, strong judicial systems, and other institutions. Asia will need to produce more food despite resources that are already limited and will be even more stretched as populations grow. While environmental issues, including climate change, are tough challenges, institutional reform is the most important step for countries in the region seeking food security for their people. Read the transcript http://bit.ly/2mlGPBN Read the book https://www.adb.org/publications/food-insecurity-asia-why-institutions-matter Read the summary https://www.adb.org/publications/at-a-glance-food-insecurity-asia-why-institutions-matter About the editors Zhang-Yue Zhou is a professor at the College of Business, Law and Governance, James Cook University, Australia. Guanghua Wan is an economist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila. Know more about ADBI's work on food security http://bit.ly/2mfu0cb

This event presents a new narrative to broaden the debate around economic development, and the ways in which traditional aid delivery helps or hinders it.

“Without internet access it's very difficult for you to start a business... even more than a physical location, it's having access to the internet, because that's your access to the world.” Judithe is joined in this episode by Adi Abili, the American Regional Director of the Global Startup Ecosystem, advisory board member at SXSW and former program director at Draper University and investor at Glassroots Ventures. Adi and Judithe crossed paths at the Haiti Tech Summit, where Adi was a speaker. Their conversation focuses on the power and importance of technology in balancing the global economic scales. “What you really need is buy-in. More than the actual technology itself is the buy-in of the people who can make the changes.” From quality of life, economic opportunities and even slowing the rate of immigration, the spread of technology is a theoretical panacea for the problems of the Developing World. With political and corporate partnerships, a future where technology is used to improve the human condition worldwide which is not only possible but profitable! “It's so much easier for us to travel, and therefore people are a lot more comfortable moving from place to place...more than just seeing a place, it's now about wanting to experience that place too.”

This event, hosted in partnership with the Centre for International Economic Law, Trade, and Development, will seek to examine issues surrounding post-Brexit international trade by bringing together internationally-renowned economists and trade law experts to discuss: what are the options for new UK and EU trade policies after Brexit? How might these affect the development of African economies, and what are the legal implications? And for the UK, how can the delivery of development results abroad be reconciled with protection of neglected regions and sectors at home?

Lina Nilsson is a bio-chemical engineer, and was the Innovation Director for the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. She wrote an Op-Ed in the NYTimes called "How to Attract Female Engineers" and in our conversation, she shares some of the letters she received in opposition to this idea.

The IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook published in October 2015. The WEO Update, projects global growth to be slightly lower than last fall’s forecast, at 3.4 percent this year, and 3.6 percent in 2017. IMF Chief economist Maurice Obstfeld, launched the new report at a press conference in London.

As we approach the 70th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we speak with Sr. Megan Rice, who along with two fellow activists was recently freed from federal prison, after a court set aside their convictions for sabotage at the Y12 nuclear facility in Missouri.  The three are members of Transform Now Plowshares, which engages in symbolic destruction of nuclear armaments.  The 83-year-old Rice talks about how she came to the decision to take an action which could have resulted in spending the rest of her life in prison.  Our conversation also touches on feminism and the Catholic Church. And continuing our exploration of how to attract women to scientific and engineering fields, in which they're vastly underrepresented, we speak with Lina Nilsson, innovation director at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley.  In a controversial New York Times op-ed in April, Nilsson described an engineering program that without even trying, achieved gender parity.  Find out how.   The post Womens Magazine – July 13, 2015 appeared first on KPFA.

In episode #213, Economist Dambisa Moyo discusses her views on the transformative role emerging markets are playing in the global economy.

Tissue and hygiene sales in developing markets were especially strong in 2012, with this positive performance directly associated with the changing role of women in these economies. With more women in the workplace, hygiene products catering to on the go female consumers are receiving a sales boost. Nappies and diapers are receiving the largest boost - with more women on the go, diapers are a convenient and time efficient product.

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From Sustainable Business to Sustainable Capitalism Seminar 1: The Big Picture Featuring Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author of the acclaimed Natural Capitalism. NCS educates business, government and civil society leaders to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In 1982 Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, an internationally recognized research center well known for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. Lovins has consulted for dozens of industries and governments worldwide, including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar, Wal-Mart, Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and Afghanistan. Moderator: George T. Scharffenberger, Executive Director of Blum Center for Developing Economies Seminar details: Can capitalism as a system be truly sustainable and just? From global climate change and resource depletion to widening inequality and social unrest, current economic and political models are proving unsustainable. Yet businesses, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and governments are collaborating like never before to address these problems. Can these solutions scale? This interdisciplinary seminar series will examine the changes necessary within the free market system — including law and public policy, consumer behavior, science and technology, the design of products and cities, and faith — for a fundamental shift towards a truly sustainable future. Presented by the Berkeley Net Impact Club, Sustainable Products and Solutions Program and the Blum Center for Developing Economies.  

From Sustainable Business to Sustainable Capitalism Seminar 1: The Big Picture Featuring Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author of the acclaimed Natural Capitalism. NCS educates business, government and civil society leaders to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In 1982 Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, an internationally recognized research center well known for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. Lovins has consulted for dozens of industries and governments worldwide, including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar, Wal-Mart, Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and Afghanistan. Moderator: George T. Scharffenberger, Executive Director of Blum Center for Developing Economies Seminar details: Can capitalism as a system be truly sustainable and just? From global climate change and resource depletion to widening inequality and social unrest, current economic and political models are proving unsustainable. Yet businesses, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and governments are collaborating like never before to address these problems. Can these solutions scale? This interdisciplinary seminar series will examine the changes necessary within the free market system — including law and public policy, consumer behavior, science and technology, the design of products and cities, and faith — for a fundamental shift towards a truly sustainable future. Presented by the Berkeley Net Impact Club, Sustainable Products and Solutions Program and the Blum Center for Developing Economies.  

he Blum Center for Developing Economies and Center for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley have entered into a unique three-year partnership with Tata, the largest privately held conglomerate in India, to provide students the opportunity to intern directly with community initiatives in India. The first crop of interns is now back on campus, having spent eight weeks in various parts of rural India working on projects that included the development of sustainable and fair Water Codes, the exploration of Sustainable Livelihoods for a community that can no longer survive on farming alone, and the development of HIV/AIDS curriculum for high school students to be offered in the schools. To highlight the amazing opportunities of this Tata Partnership, Berkeley will host a student symposium on Friday, September 19th, from 1-4 pm at the International House that is open to the campus community and public. The symposium will feature short presentations by Berkeley's Tata interns, highlighting their work this summer. Another student panel will feature Berkeley undergrads who participated in global practice experiences this summer as part of the Blum Center's Global Poverty and Practice Minor.

he Blum Center for Developing Economies and Center for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley have entered into a unique three-year partnership with Tata, the largest privately held conglomerate in India, to provide students the opportunity to intern directly with community initiatives in India. The first crop of interns is now back on campus, having spent eight weeks in various parts of rural India working on projects that included the development of sustainable and fair Water Codes, the exploration of Sustainable Livelihoods for a community that can no longer survive on farming alone, and the development of HIV/AIDS curriculum for high school students to be offered in the schools. To highlight the amazing opportunities of this Tata Partnership, Berkeley will host a student symposium on Friday, September 19th, from 1-4 pm at the International House that is open to the campus community and public. The symposium will feature short presentations by Berkeley's Tata interns, highlighting their work this summer. Another student panel will feature Berkeley undergrads who participated in global practice experiences this summer as part of the Blum Center's Global Poverty and Practice Minor.