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Conference explored stresses caused by globalization
"Globalization and Social Stress" was the theme of an international conference held in Warsaw, Poland, by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) and Transformation, Integration, and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER), an independent economic think-tank affiliated with the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (WSPiZ) in Poland. The conference, which took place Oct. 23–24, was organized by Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS and the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics at Yale, and Grzegorz W. Kolodko, director of TIGER and former finance minister and deputy prime minister of Poland. "Yale organized this joint conference with TIGER because globalization and the social stress it generates, along with the opportunities it provides, has become a universal concern and is of special relevance to the transition countries of Eastern Europe contemplating accession to the European Union," said Ranis. Robert A. Mundell, 1999 Nobel Prize winner in Economics and University Professor of Economics at Columbia University, opened the conference with an address titled "One Global Economy, One World Currency?" The conference also included sessions on "Migration, Labor Markets and Human Development," "Globalization and EU Accession," "Globalization: Opportunities and Threats for Economic Growth," "Globalization and Poverty" and "Globalization, Natural Resources and Institutional Choice." Participants included Tony Addison, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Finland; Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan; Andrzej Bolesta, TIGER-WSPiZ, Poland; Laszlo Csaba, Central European University, Hungary; Grzegorz W. Kolodko, TIGER-WSPiZ, Poland; Aminur Rahman, University College, London; George Vojta, Financial Services Forum, New York; and Xia Yeliang, School of Economics, Beijing University, China. In addition to Ranis, the speakers from Yale included David Cameron, Keith Darden, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Pauline Jones Luong, Patricia Pessar and T.N. Srinivasan. The conference's proceedings are expected to be published in book form. |
