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Address By Dr Brian Levy, "Democracy And Development" - Details

Address by Dr Brian Levy, "Democracy and Development" Details:
Category	SAIIA Western Cape Branch
Where:	University of Cape Town - Cape Town
Date:	Wednesday 13 Apr 2011 -Wednesday 13 Apr 2011
Time:	17:30 -20:00

Event description:
The South African Institute of International Affairs, Western Cape Branch invites you to a public seminar to be addressed by Dr Brian Levy on "Democracy and Development" at The Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town on Wednesday 13 April 2011 at 17:30 for 18:00. Brian Levy is a Visiting Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics at UCT, and an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Over the past two decades, his full-time employer has been the World Bank where he is an adviser on governance. He is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report, Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of African development, for the last four years as sector manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World Bank´s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World. He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions between public institutions, the private sector and development in Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere, most recently editing (jointly with Sahr Kpundeh) the volume, Building State Capacity in Africa (World Bank Institute, 2004). A South African national, he has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University. There will be a debate on the topic of Democracy and Development after the talk by the UCT Debating Union which members are invited to watch. Please RSVP to saiia.admin@telkomsa.net or call Pippa on 021 761 4842 or 083 305 2339