Investing for All or Investing for Some: Should We Try to Develop All of Africa at Once?
Peter Orazem
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
University Professor of economics Peter Orazem has researched topics ranging from the health consequences of child labor in Brazil to economic growth rates in university communities in the American Midwest to how technology has increased income inequality in Taiwan. Most recently he authored four of the top fifteen strategies to improve education in the developing world cited by a panel of leading economists at the global Copenhagen Consensus 2012. Orazem joined the Iowa State faculty in 1982. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and on the team for the 2007 World Development Report. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.PowerPoint slides available upon request.
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- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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