6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Charter Cities: A Solution to Global Poverty
Charter Cities: A Solution to Global Poverty
A discussion with Paul Romer and Ray Fisman
In his three decade career, Paul Romer, senior fellow for Stanford Center for International Development and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, has done foundational work on economic growth that puts him on a Nobel Prize short list, founded and sold a highly successful e-publishing company, and served as senior advisor to governments around the world. His current initiative, Charter Cities, focuses on poverty in the developing world. If people can migrate to newly chartered cities, Romer believes that they can improve their lives and, by their own actions, do much to reduce global poverty. Why might Charter Cities - which Bill Easterly has said lies somewhere on the fine line between revolutionary and crazy - succeed where so many well-intentioned efforts have failed?
For more information, watch Dr. Paul Romer's TED talk from 2009 at http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html and Paul Romer's blog: www.chartercities.org.
6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Registration
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Introduction by Ray Fisman, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program, Columbia Business School; Remarks by Paul Romer, Senior Fellow for Stanford Center for International Development and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Q&A to follow.
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Reception
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This event is co-sponsored by the Social Enterprise Program, The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business and the International Development Club.