- Event name
- Guest lecturer: Finn Tarp presents 'Aid, Growth, and Development: Have we come full circle?', Bonn, Germany
- Address
- Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung,(ground floor conference room) Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Date
- 7 June 2011 15:00 - 16:30
- Contact person
- http://www.zef.de/1549.html?pk=3578;
Contact: Sebastian Eckert
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article/read/aid-growth-and-development-have-we-come-full-circle
Risk and Uncertainty for Sustainable Development seminar series:
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn
UNU-EHS, jointly organize a seminar series on Risk and Uncertainty for Sustainable Development.
Speaker: Finn Tarp, Director of UNU WIDER
Chair: Fabrice Renaud, UNU Bonn
Discussant: Joachim von Braun, ZEF Director
Background information:
In this seminar series we will address opportunities, risks and uncertainties for development. Uncertainty, i.e. the unknown unknowns, is a particular challenge. Risk and uncertainty have become a focal topic among development researchers, policy makers and practitioners as worldwide, economy and ecology have been assailed by a series of global crises: financial crisis, high and volatile food and oil price, and/or climate change. These crises present threats to development and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The understanding, mitigating and controlling of risk and uncertainty is far from being understood. The seminar series will be a forum for agenda setting and discussion on related themes with leading experts in this field of research and policy.
Contact: Sebastian Eckert