Newsletter: August 2024

Retrofit for Purpose: Reform of the International Financial Architecture

August 7 – 9, 2024. Rio de Janeiro Copacabana. Hosted by International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

As part of the global effort to exert pressure on the international community to reform the financial architecture, IDEAS, a progressive South-led network of development practitioners and thinkers, and the Institute of Economics at UFRJ convened policy makers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries, development and media practitioners, academics, and members of civic society in Rio de Janeiro. Participants discussed urgent issues for reform, including tackling the debt crisis and restructuring multilateral development banks.

During the panel “Policy space in a world of mobile private capital,” Martin Guzmán (Columbia University, SIPA; IPD), Laura Barbosa de Carvalho (University of Sao Paulo), C.P. Chandrasekhar (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Ndongo Samba Sylla (Africa Region at International Development Economics Associates) engaged in a discussion chaired by Carlos Frederico Leao Rocha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).

More information about the IDEAS-UFRJ conference is available here.

Screening of Tax Wars

August 7, 2024. Hilton Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Hosted by Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT).

Tax Wars is a film by Hege Dehl about the battle to make mega-corporations and the ultra-rich pay their fair share of taxes. Multinationals have mastered sheltering their profits in tax havens, but a handful of experts, united in ICRICT, have been working for tax justice. The film tells their story.

Ahead of this screening of Tax Wars, Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts) moderated an introductory discussion with Martin Guzmán (Columbia University, SIPA; IPD) and Jose Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University, SIPA).

Learn more about the film here.

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz ‘Economics and the Good Society’ Speaking Tour with The Australia Institute

July 29 – August 14. Locations across Australia. Hosted by The Australia Institute.

As a guest of The Australia Institute, an independent, non-partisan research group, and in honor of its 30th anniversary celebrations, Joseph E. Stiglitz participated in six events in Australia during the months of July and August.

In Sydney on July 29, Joseph E. Stiglitz joined in conversation with the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull AC, 29th Prime Minister of Australia & Dr Emma Shortis, senior researcher International & Security Affairs at the Australia Institute on: What’s Happening in the US? Implications for Australia.

In New South Wales on July 30, Stiglitz gave a public talk on Modern Industrial Policy.

In Hobart on August 1, Stiglitz gave a lecture on Economics and the Good Society.

In Melbourne on August 7, Stiglitz, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of the Senate Inquiry into Greenwashing and Polly Hemming, Climate & Energy Director at the Australia Institute engaged in the conversation Greenwashing: How do we fix it?

In Canberra on August 12, Stiglitz and Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director of the Australia Institute engaged in conversation about The Role of Competition Policy in the Cost of Living Crisis.

In Perth on August 14, Stiglitz was in conversation with Richard Denniss, Executive Director of the Australia Institute, about how taxing resources fairly would benefit the Australian economy in an event titled Why Taxing the Export Gas Industry is Good for the Economy.

The Journal of Globalization and Development (JGD) publishes academic research and policy analysis on globalization, development, and in particular the complex interactions between them.

Editors: Kevin Gallagher, Professor, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies; Director, Boston University Global Development Policy Center and Jeronim Capaldo, Senior Economist, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Senior Scholar, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University (BU).

Managing Editor: Gabriela Plump, Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University.

The Journal of Globalization and Development’s Special Issue on the Gendered Effects of Globalization

With Guest Editors Jessica Leight, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Bilge Erten, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Northeastern University; Co-editor, Review of Economics of the Household; Associate Editor, Feminist Economics.

Volume 14 Issue 2

For more information or to submit a paper to JGD, click here.