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April 23rd, 2008. Here a link to the presentation I gave to an ongoing WBI interactive course on Governance & Anticorruption with four francophone African countries. It is clear that empirics do not support either the afro-pessimist camp, or the irrationally exuberant camp. And the evidence also questions the tendency to generalize about a whole continent, when in fact there is so much variation across countries, and between institutions within a country. [Here to the same presentation but in french instead]
April 22nd, 2008. Strobe Talbott gave a presentation on his very interesting new book which is just out, called ‘The Great Experiment’ (I was a commentator, emphasizing incentives, incentives, and incentives, of course, since I am an economist at the end of the day…).
April 21st, 2008. Here a link to the presentation on governance to a large ‘Global Economy’ class at Columbia University, New York City. The professor in charge of the class, who invited me as a guest, is the trade economist Sunil Gulati, who also happens to be the President of the US Soccer Federation…
April 16th, 2008: Literally in front of my 2nd floor office, facing Pennsylvania Ave., the Pope just went by at noon today, his Popemobile having slowly emerged from the White House (which is just a block away). There were songs for the Pope’s birthday (it is today). A couple of unedited pictures below, taken by a colleague at work.
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Recent Presentation:
In this space I will be sharing some presentations (for a fuller calendar, click here).
On February 1st, 2008, I delivered a presentation at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University on “Challenging Orthodoxy in Governance and Corruption: Lessons from Worldwide Empirics”. Click here for the full Announcement, here for the Slide Presentation, and here for the Video.
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In the News (a few)
Here for the March 15th Issue in The Economist on our work, or here for the March 13th ‘At a Glance’ snippet in the same weekly.
Here a link to a personal interview article in Globes, the Israeli financial paper, in June 2007. If you happen to read hebrew, same interview is here.
For overall media coverage on governance work, visit here
For coverage of the most recent release of the ‘Governance Matters’ series, and the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), here
A recent snippet in YouTube here.
And here a very brief interview about sports and management at the time of the 2004 Olympics (bottom of second page in the link)
And click here if searching for a sample of videos of presentations on governance.