Event

The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) will  host a Distinguished Lecture in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis to be delivered by Dr De Lisle Worrell on Tuesday 14^th October, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. in the Daaga Auditorium (next to the Centre for Language Learning).

Dr. Worrell will speak on “Dependent Economic Development in the English-speaking Caribbean (1945-2000)”. This is the seventh in a series of eight Distinguished Lectures organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Economics and SALISES. A cocktail reception will follow the lecture.

Dr Worrell, a graduate of The UWI (B.Sc. Economics, 1967) and of McGill University (Ph.D., 1975), is a distinguished Caribbean scholar and technocrat, most eminently qualified to speak on this topic which has occupied a substantial part of his professional life. Currently the Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance and Professor of Economics at the SALISES, UWI, he is also a former Senior Economist with the International Monetary Fund and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. He is the author of several books on Caribbean and South Pacific economies, including Small Island Economies: Structure and Performance in the English Speaking Caribbean since 1970. He has also published articles on money, banking, exchange rates, economic modelling and forecasting. He has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute for International Economics and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, at Yale University, Princeton University and The University of the West Indies. He has been a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the Foundation for Development Cooperation in Brisbane, Australia, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the UN Economic and Social Council and the Caribbean Community Secretariat.