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MODERATOR
Francisco Ferreira
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ferreira is a lead economist with the Development Research Group
at the World Bank and one of the contributors to the Princeton
Encyclopedia of the World Economy. He has published a number of
articles on both the theory and empirics of income and wealth
distribution dynamics. His current research interests include the
measurement of inequality of opportunity; the design of cash
transfer programs; and the political economy consequences of high
inequality. Mr. Ferreira is a co-editor of the Journal of Economic
Inequality and an Editor of Economía (the Journal of the Latin
American and Caribbean Economic Association?LACEA). He was a
co-director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006
on Equity and Development, and is a former member of the Executive
Committee of LACEA. He was an assistant professor of economics at
the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) between 1999 and
2002, and has also taught economics at the LSE and summer schools in
Italy, Russia, and Spain. He has served on the Advisory Boards of
the Institute of Public Policy at the Universidad de las Americas in
Mexico and of the Institute for Labor and Social Studies (IETS) in
Brazil.
EDITORS
Kenneth Reinert
Professor, Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Reinert is professor of public policy at George Mason
University, where he directs the International Commerce and Policy
Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at Trade Partnership Worldwide.
Mr. Reinert has held the positions of Senior International Economist
at Kalamazoo College. He has consulted for the World Trade
Organization, the World Bank, the OECD Development Centre, and the
U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Reinert has published over 50
journal articles and book chapters in the areas of international
trade, economic development, and environmental policy. He has
co-edited Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook,
authored Windows on the World Economy: An Introduction to
International Economics, co-authored Globalization for Development,
and is Lead Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia
of the World Economy.
Ramkishen Rajan
Associate Professor, Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Rajan is associate professor of public policy at George Mason
University and the author of Economic Globalization and Asia. Prior
to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Adelaide for
five years, where he remains a Visiting Associate Professor. He is
also currently an Associate Faculty at the Center for Global
Studies, George Mason University and an Adjunct Fellow at RIS (Delhi
based think tank). He has held one year visiting positions at the
National University of Singapore and at the Claremont McKenna
College, California. Additionally, he held shorter visiting
positions at the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, National
University of Singapore, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
and Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore. Mr. Rajan specializes
in international economic policy with particular reference to the
developing Asia-Pacific region. He is on the Editorial Board of
various academic journals, including Development Policy Review,
North American Journal of Economics and Finance, International
Journal of Business, and elsewhere. Mr. Rajan has been a consultant
with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the UN-ESCAP,
Development Bank of Singapore and other places.
DISCUSSANT
Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
Mr. Dougherty began his publishing career as a college textbook
salesperson for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and was later named
sociology editor at Harcourt. Before coming to Princeton, he served
as an editor at McGraw-Hill, W.H. Freeman, St. Martin's Press, Basil
Blackwell and The Free Press. A member of the American Economic
Association, he is also active in the American Association of
University Presses. Mr. Dougherty writes and lectures about social
science publishing and occasionally about economic culture and the
culture of economics. His articles have appeared in The Financial
Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle Review of The Chronicle
of Higher Education, The Journal of Economic Literature, The Journal
of Scholarly Publishing, World Economics, The American Sociologist
and elsewhere.
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