Wednesday, December 12, 2007

REMINDER: "Global Warming and Agriculture" on Thursday, December 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, Sustainable Development
Department of the World Bank
Mr. Sanghi has worked on development topics ranging from
infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural
economics, and has taught economics at the University of Chicago and
Thammasat University in Thailand. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Chicago, where his dissertation was on the
economic impact of climate change on agriculture in Brazil and India
- work on which William Cline draws upon for his own book.

PRESENTED BY
William Cline
Senior fellow jointly at the Center for Global Development and the
Peterson Institute for International Economics
During 1996-2001, Mr. Cline was deputy managing director and chief
economist at the Institute of International Finance. Mr. Cline was a
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; deputy director of
development and trade research, office of the assistant secretary
for international affairs, US Treasury Department; Ford Foundation
visiting professor in Brazil; and lecturer and assistant professor
of economics at Princeton University. He is the author of 22 books,
including The United States as a Debtor Nation (2005), Trade Policy
and Global Poverty (2004), Trade and Income Distribution (1997),
International Debt Reexamined (1995), and The Economics of Global
Warming (1992), which was selected by Choice for its 1993
"Outstanding Academic Books" list and the winner of the Harold and
Margaret Sprout Prize for best book on International Environmental
Affairs, awarded by the International Studies Association.

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