Event Description
- Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
- Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
- Location: UCU 205
While the financial crisis of 2008/9 first broke out in the United States and quickly spread to emerging market economies, developing countries have not been exempted from the wide-spread effects of the crisis. The crisis has already driven more than 50 million people back into extreme poverty, and there is little hope that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. This panel will interrogate the response of the International Financial Institutions to the Financial Crisis of 2008/9.
The financial and economic crisis has definitely exposed the need for significant and systemic changes to the current global financial architecture. Globalization has steadfastly dismantled financial, economic and trade barriers between countries, integrating countries into an interdependent globalized economy. Building on a policy brief forthcoming from the Halifax Initiative conference on the impact of the financial crisis on the global South that took place from October 19 and 20, 2009, this session will interrogate critically the response of the international financial institutions and the international aid community to the crisis.
Biographies of Speakers:
1) Arne Rückert, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa:
Arne Ruckert is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund's development policies, which have appeared in Studies in Political Economy; the Canadian Journal of Development Studies; Labour, Capital and Society; and Review of International Political Economy, and in various edited collections. He has recently co-edited a collection on Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas (Palgrave, in press), and is currently co-editing a collection on the World Bank and Poverty Reduction. He received the prestigious Government of Canada Award in 2004 and 2005, won the Canadian Confederation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Paper Competition in 2006, and was granted the International Studies Association's Robert W. and Jessie Cox Award in 2008. He is currently conducting SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research on the impacts of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of Nicaragua and Honduras, and the role of the IFIs in transnational governance. (en français: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/cepi-cips/fra/arneruckert.asp)
2) Bill Morton, Researcher, North-South Institute:
Bill Morton joined the North-South Institute in August 2004. He has a strong background in development assistance, community development and international program management. He previously worked as Coordinator of the Horn of Africa program for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, as Assistant Manager, Asia/Pacific Program, for MEI International Projects. He recently completed a Masters program in International Development, with a focus on Canadian, UK and Australian policy on aid effectiveness. (en français: http://www.nsi-ins.ca/fran/contact_us/profiles/bill.asp)
3) Chair:
Susan Spronk, Assistant Professor, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa
Susan Spronk is assistant professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies. Her research focuses on the experience of development in Latin America, more specifically the impact of neoliberalism on the transformation of the state and the rise of anti-privatization movements in the Andean region. Her latest research project examined the role of public sector unions and social movements in promoting the democratic reform of public water utilities in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. She obtained her PhD in Political Science from York University. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa faculty, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University. She is also a research associate with the Municipal Service Project, an IDRC-funded research project that focuses on policy alternatives in municipal service delivery in Africa, Asia and Latin America. (en français: http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/edim/fra/profdetails.asp?id=481)
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This event will be presented in both official languages |
