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August 2008
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Arthur Lewis Memorial Conference:
Development Challenges in the 21st Century
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the West Indies
(St Augustine Campus), in collaboration with the Department of Economics
and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies, is
hosting the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Conference at the Learning
Resource Centre (LRC) at The University of the West Indies from
September 25- 27, 2008. The theme of the conference is Development
Challenges in the 21st Century
Economies in the Caribbean and all over the world are grappling with the
consequences of globalization and the accompanying changes in the rules
of international trade, including loss of preferential markets and
erosion of preferences due to tariff reduction. This has resulted in
increasing competition for traditional products from these economies, a
situation compounded by rising energy costs and accompanying negative
social ills like unemployment, rising criminality, overburdened health
and educational facilities and the like. To compound these problems,
many of these economies are facing a serious threat from climate change
and the accompanying rising sea levels and increase in number and
ferocity of hurricanes. What are realistic development options, given
the policy space now available to these economies? It is to answer
questions like these that the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Conference is
being hosted on the theme indicated. Participation is open to scholars,
policy makers, graduate students, professionals and all persons
interested in the burning issues associated with this theme.
About Sir Arthur LewisBorn in Castries St Lucia on 23rd
January 1915, Sir Arthur Lewis would win the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1979. A former
lecturer and Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies
(1959)), he was knighted in 1963 and then went on to lecture at
Princeton University. In 1970, he became Director of the Caribbean
Development Bank. His prize winning work is an economic model that
examines the problems facing developing nations. His landmark dual
sector model explains why in developing nations, so often, wages remain
low and capital rents high, even as development continues at a pace.
After retiring from academia, Sir Arthur Lewis returned to the
Caribbean. In 1991 he died and was buried on the grounds of the St Lucia
community college named in his honour.
For further information please contact
Ms Joy Cooblal at the Faculty of Social Sciences,
Tel:1-868-662-2002 Ext. 2401
E-mail Joy.Cooblal@sta.uwi.edu
Visit the conference website:
http://sta.uwi.edu/nlc
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