CDES Sustainable development conference 2023
This annual workshop at the Monash University Prato Centre makes research connections between academics at Monash Business School and international researchers and practitioners. It aims to stimulate new ideas, deepen existing research relationships, and explore further opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction and collaboration. The workshop will bring together a core group of Monash scholars across a range of academic disciplines in business and economics and a select group of researchers and practitioners from around the world.
The 2023 Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) conference on sustainable development is a continuation of an annual event that started several years ago as the Monash Business and Sustainability Network Workshop on Sustainable Development held at the Monash Prato Centre in Prato, Italy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event was suspended during 2020-2022. This year marks the revival of this event in a renewed form. Hosted by CDES, the Conference‘s key purpose is to bring together researchers from Monash Business School and the international research community to share their work on issues of development and sustainability and create opportunities for future collaborations.
Speakers
Indermit Gill, Chief Economist, The World Bank
Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.
Gill is widely regarded for his contributions to development economics. He spearheaded the influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His pioneering work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries—among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality. Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Watch Indermit Gill's keynote address
Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard University
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School. She serves as the Faculty Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and is the co-Scientific Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South East Asia Office in Indonesia. In addition, Professor Hanna is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
Her research revolves around improving the provision of public services in developing and emerging nations, particularly for the very poor. She is particularly interested in how governments can improve and strengthen social protection, tax collection, and environmental safety. She combines economic theory, qualitative field work, extensive data collection, and cutting-edge empirical analysis to offer insights into how governments function and how they can do better. Her work has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy, among others. Professor Hanna is currently on the editorial board at the American Economic Review and previously was on the board of Review of Economics and Statistics and VoxDev and served as a co-Editor at the Journal of Human Resources. Prior to joining the Harvard Kennedy School, Hanna was an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Event Details
- Date:
- 29 June 2023 at 9:00 am – 30 June 2023 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Monash University Prato Centre, Pugliesi, 26, 59100 Prato PO, Italy
- Categories:
- General; Sustainability & Social change
Description
This annual workshop at the Monash University Prato Centre makes research connections between academics at Monash Business School and international researchers and practitioners. It aims to stimulate new ideas, deepen existing research relationships, and explore further opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction and collaboration. The workshop will bring together a core group of Monash scholars across a range of academic disciplines in business and economics and a select group of researchers and practitioners from around the world.
The 2023 Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) conference on sustainable development is a continuation of an annual event that started several years ago as the Monash Business and Sustainability Network Workshop on Sustainable Development held at the Monash Prato Centre in Prato, Italy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event was suspended during 2020-2022. This year marks the revival of this event in a renewed form. Hosted by CDES, the Conference‘s key purpose is to bring together researchers from Monash Business School and the international research community to share their work on issues of development and sustainability and create opportunities for future collaborations.
Speakers
Indermit Gill, Chief Economist, The World Bank
Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.
Gill is widely regarded for his contributions to development economics. He spearheaded the influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His pioneering work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries—among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality. Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Watch Indermit Gill's keynote address
Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard University
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School. She serves as the Faculty Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and is the co-Scientific Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South East Asia Office in Indonesia. In addition, Professor Hanna is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
Her research revolves around improving the provision of public services in developing and emerging nations, particularly for the very poor. She is particularly interested in how governments can improve and strengthen social protection, tax collection, and environmental safety. She combines economic theory, qualitative field work, extensive data collection, and cutting-edge empirical analysis to offer insights into how governments function and how they can do better. Her work has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy, among others. Professor Hanna is currently on the editorial board at the American Economic Review and previously was on the board of Review of Economics and Statistics and VoxDev and served as a co-Editor at the Journal of Human Resources. Prior to joining the Harvard Kennedy School, Hanna was an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).