Fifteen years after the launching of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the post-2015 development agenda is being formulated in a world which is in many ways very different to its state at the start of the twenty first century. The distribution of economic power has shifted to newly emerging middle income countries, and there have been significant improvements in many dimensions of wellbeing. However, many development challenges remain, and new ones have emerged: there are still large numbers in income and non-income poverty; global forces are tending to increase inequality within countries; greater integration in trade and finance has come with increased volatility in national fortunes; climate change presents an ever present threat to development; failed and conflict affected states are stuck in a low development trap.
This panel will look ahead to the next two decades of development challenges, in light of the report of the United Nations Secretary General s High Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda. The issues tackled by the panel include: (i) an assessment of the High Level Panel Report, (ii) the role of the private sector in advancing the development agenda, (iii) conceptualizing social protection as a central part of the development agenda, (iv) cross-border public goods and cooperation as a development challenge, (v) mobilizing public opinion behind development.
Participants:
- Bilge Erten
Speaker
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Committee on Global Thought
Columbia University - José Antonio Ocampo
Speaker
Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
Columbia University
- Jonathan Ostry
Speaker
Deputy Director of the Research Department
International Monetary Fund - Rakesh Mohan
Speaker
Distinguished Fellow
Brookings India
- Anton Korinek
Speaker
Assistant Professor
John Hopkins University - Erinc Yeldan
Speaker
Professor
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Yasar University