WORLD BANK CONFERENCE
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Political philosophy meets economics
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 1-2, 2007
MC building, Room 7-100
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Tuesday, May 1
Morning session: 9-12:45 (chair: Branko Milanovic)
9 Branko Milanovic, Opening remarks
9:10 Martin Ravallion (World Bank), Global poverty measurement at the World Bank: history, results, future
9:40 Thomas Pogge (ColumbiaUniversity), Incentives for pharmaceutical research: must they exclude the poor from advanced medicines?
10:10Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Globalization, immigration and social justice
10:40 Discussion
11:15Jim Davies (University of Western Ontario),The world distribution of household wealth
11:45 Mathias Risse (HarvardUniversity), What is special about the state?
12:15 Discussion
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon session: 2:15-6:15 (chair: Peter Lanjouw)
2:15Paul Segal (OxfordUniversity), What do we know about global income inequality?
2:45Frances Kamm (HarvardUniversity), Does distance matter morally?
3:15 Leif Wenar (SheffieldUniversity), Property rights and the resource curse
3:45 Discussion
4:15 Shaohua Chen (World Bank), Income distribution and poverty in China
4:45 Andre Decoster and Koen Decancq (CatholicUniversityLeuven). Multidimensional global inequality: income, education and health
5:15 Adolfo Figueroa (Universidad Catolica del Peru), Comments on positive economics vs. normative economics: The case of redistribution policies
5:45 Discussion
6:15 End of day 1
8 Dinner (for participants)
Wednesday, May 2
Morning session: 9-1 (chair:Shaohua Chen)
9John Roemer (YaleUniversity), Circumstance and effort
9:30 Christian Barry (University College Dublin), Fairness in sovereign debt
10 David Crocker (University of Maryland), Development ethics, democracy, and globalization
10:30Dusan Pavlovic (University of Belgrade), Comments on international justice: principles and implications for global redistribution
11 Discussion
11:30 Sanjay Reddy (ColumbiaUniversity), International trade and labor standards: a proposal for linkage
12Francisco Ferreira (World Bank),Inequality of opportunity in Brazil
12:30 Discussion
1Lunch
Afternoon session: 2-5:30 (chair: Francisco Ferreira)
2 Richard Miller (CornellUniversity), Global power and global justice
2:30Bob Sutcliffe (University of Bilbao), Development, utopia and inequality
3 Discussion
3:30 David Rosenblatt (World Bank), Global redistribution of income: an empirical simulation
4 Branko Milanovic (World Bank), Circumstance and effort in a world of unequal mean incomes and (almost) no migration
4:30Rafael Bustillo (Universidad de Salamanca),Comments on global inequality: its implication on migration and Mediterranean Europe
5:00 Closing discussion
5:30 End of the conference
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