The World Bank's Chief Economist for South Asia To Speak at Smith

The World Bank/Robert H. Smith School of Business Management & Leadership Forum Presents:

Eight Sizes Fit All: The Challenges of Public and Private Delivery of Services in the Global Marketplace
Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist for the World Bank's South Asia Region

Friday, March 5, 2004, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
Howard Frank Auditorium
Robert H. Smith School of Business

The Robert H. Smith School of Business and The World Bank will continue the series of business and management discussion engagements focusing on managerial dilemmas in the global marketplace. These sessions take place in the Howard Frank Auditorium on the first floor of Van Munching Hall (1524).

Shantayanan Devarajan the Chief Economist for the World Bank's South Asia Region, editor of the World Bank Research Observer, and staff director for this year's World Development Report (Making Services Work for Poor People) will review the main messages of the World Development Report which has attracted widespread attention since its launch last fall, and engage a discussion on challenges related to public and private delivery of services in the global marketplace.

Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Devarajan has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Devarajan's research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Devarajan received his A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

This event is sponsored by the Masters Program Office and the Office of Executive Education.