Past Annual Lectures
The WIDER Annual Lecture is delivered by an eminent scholar who has made significant contribution in the field of economics of development and transition. The Lecture is available to download from this web site, and a printed copy is also available upon request. Please go to Publications/Annual Lectures on this site for more details.
- 27 September 2012 WIDER Annual Lecture 16: Folk and the Formula—Pathways to Capable States, by Lant Pritchett, Helsinki, Finland
- 4 May 2011 WIDER Annual Lecture 15: New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of The World Bank. Maputo, Mozambique.
- 9 December 2010 WIDER Annual Lecture 14: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture, by José Antonio Ocampo. Professor in the Professional Practice of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs. New York, USA.
- 21 October 2009 WIDER Annual Lecture 13: The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History by Professor Ronald Findlay of Columbia University
- 23 February 2009 WIDER Annual Lecture 12: Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past? by Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 6 March 2008 WIDER Annual Lecture 11: Climate Change: Reflections on the Challenge of Public Good Provision and Development by Kemal Derviş, Head of UNDP
- 29 September 2006 WIDER Annual Lecture 10: Global Patterns of Income and Health by Angus Deaton
- 26 October 2005 WIDER Annual Lecture 9: The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy by Nancy Birdsall
- 5 November 2004 Annual Lecture 8: Rethinking Growth Strategies by Dani Rodrik
- 10 November 2003 Annual Lecture 7: Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms by Kaushik Basu
- 5 September 2002 Annual Lecture 6: Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization by Jeffrey G. Williamson
- 14 December 2001 Annual Lecture 5: Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development by Frances Stewart
- 27 November 2000 Annual Lecture 4: Globalization and Appropriate Governance by Jagdish N. Bhagwati
- 1 November 1999 Annual Lecture 3: Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus by Anthony Atkinson
- 7 January 1998 Annual Lecture 2: More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- 7 March 1997 Annual Lecture 1: The New Institutional Economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem by Douglass C. North