"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050 at the World
Bank.
Please see attached invitation for more information.
(See attached file: 12-16Draft1.pdf)
Elena Panaritis
Director, Panel Group
Ms. Panaritis is a leading expert in property rights, transformation of
illiquid real estate assets, and public sector management. She currently heads
Panel Group, a specialized advisory group that invests in undervalued property
and provides counsel on transforming informal real estate and related public
policy. She lectures on housing finance and public policy reform, with a focus
on property and institutions, at INSEAD, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International
Studies, and elsewhere. In her eleven years working as an economist at the World
Bank, she spearheaded property rights reform in Peru.
Francis Fukuyama
Professor, International Political Economy, SAIS Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning
political and economic development. His book, The End of History and the Last
Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign
editions. It made the bestseller lists in the United States, France, Japan, and
Chile, and has been awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the
Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition.
He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of
Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of
Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology
Revolution (2002), State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st
Century, (2004), and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the
Neoconservative Legacy (2006).
Klaus Deininger
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Deininger is a Lead Economist in the rural development group of the
Development Economics Group. His areas of research focus on income and asset
inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land,
land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and
agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including
environmental sustainability; and capacity building (including the use of
quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly
in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions.
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