Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
A symposium designed to explore the latest thinking from microfinance practitioners and academics on improving microfinance programs. Jonathan Morduch, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University presented the keynote address. The conference focused on designing microfinance to address education and health goals and addressing behavioral issues in microfinance. This symposium was funded through the generosity of the Hudak family. James B.
Aaron David Miller is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, where he is writing a book about America and the Arab-Israeli conflict.Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance coexistence and reconciliation. For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an advisor to six Secretaries of State, where he helped formulate U.S.
It is clear that Michigan is in the midst of serious structural economic trouble, perhaps the worst since the Great Depression. Northwest Airlines and Delphi Corp. are already in Chapter 11. There are rumors and real concern about the stability of General Motors, Ford and much of the auto parts industry. There is a real possibility of descent into receivership for both the City of Detroit and the Detroit school system.
Sheldon H. Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Research Professor, Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, discusses why poverty persists in the U.S. and what policy reforms can reduce the incidence of poverty. Danziger, who is also co-director of the National Poverty Center and director of the Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy, is nationally recognized for his research on the causes and consequences of poverty.
Prior to his position at the EBRD, President Lemierre was Head of the French Private Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance and Director of France's Treasury. This Citigroup lecture was presented in conjunction with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the International Policy Center.
Andrew Cherlin, Benjamin H. Griswold, III, Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Co-sponsored by the Population Studies Seminar.
About the Conference Health policy is often equated with health insurance and programs explicitly linked with the provision of medical and health services. However, many public policies and expenditures can and do affect population health and health disparities, even though health is neither a central goal nor an anticipated side effect of these efforts.
Ronna Cook, Associate Director of the Human Services Research Group, Westat, Inc. and Maris Vinovskis, A. M. and H. P. Bentley Professor of History and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, moderated by Edward Gramlich, Interim Provost, University of Michigan; Richard A. Musgrave Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The program is sponsored by National Poverty Center and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Ronna Cook, Associate Director of the Human Services Research Group, Westat, Inc. and Maris Vinovskis, A. M. and H. P. Bentley Professor of History and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, moderated by Edward Gramlich, Interim Provost, University of Michigan; Richard A. Musgrave Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Tom Bombelles, Director of International Government Relations at Merck & Co., Inc. speaks on Merck's HIV/AIDS program in Botswana and the pricing of essential medicines in developing markets, more specifically on what sort of business challenges exist in these markets – establishing prices, logistical constraints, pushback/support from governments, the WTO/intellectual property rights, other corporations, NGOs, etc. The lecture was sponsored by International Policy Center and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the William Davidson Institute.
'Health Care Financing, Access, and Equity in the Developing World'
Thursday March 9th, 2006
Sharon Maccini, Ford School of Public Policy,
'Policy and Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Health in Developing Countries'
Thursday March 30th, 2006
Scott Greer, School of Public Health
'The Europeanisation of national health policies: what can we expect and how will it matter?'
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Shobita Parthasarathy, Ford School of Public Policy
'Is there a place for morality in global patent law? The case of biotechnology'
Co-sponsored by the Internati
Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH School of Public Health, will speak on health care financing in the developing world. Event was co-sponsored by the International Policy Center, Ford School of Public Policy and the UM Global Health Research & Training Initiative (UM-GHRT).
Francisco Thoumi, Professor of Economics and Director and Founder, Research and Monitoring Center on Drugs and Crime, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá will speak on 'Institutions, Governability and Illegal Drugs in Colombia and Afghanistan: Why Traditional Policies Are Not Enough.'
The event was sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Emerging Markets Club, International Policy Center and the Hispanic, Latin American Business Student Association.
A public symposium featuring Derek Yach, Professor of Global Health at Yale University, speaking on 'The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.' A reception for Professor Yach to follow the lecture.
This event is cosponsored by the UM Global Health Research Training Initiative (UM-GHRT), the Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS), the UM Michigan Tobacco Research Network (UM TRN) and the International Policy Center (IPC).
*This event formally opens the UM Global Health and Research Training Initiative.
Background:
Between 1995 and 2004, Professor Yach worked at the World
The International Policy Center and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, jointly with International Policy Students Association (IPSA) and Emerging Markets Club (EMC), present Alan Rousso, Lead Counsellor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Jan Svejnar, Director of the International Policy Center, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business, Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Alan Rousso and Jan Svejnar presented the findings from The Annual EBRD Transition Report 2005: Business in Transition.
The elections and campaigns class at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, taught by Rusty Hills, to host former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer. All students, faculty and staff of the Ford School are invited to attend and ask questions. The session is part of an ongoing segment of the course that invites members of the political community to participate in the class. About the speaker Dennis Archer was the first African-American President of the American Bar Association.
This is the first seminar in the 2005-2006 International Colloquia series.
Program
9:00 AM - Coffee and muffins
9:30 AM - CRISTINA ARELLANO, Minnesota
'Dollarization and Financial Integration' (with Jonathan Heathcote)
Discussants:
Yui Suzuki
Jing Zhang
11:00 AM - Coffee break
11:30 AM - GALINA HALE, Yale
'Are Private Borrowers Hurt by Sovereign Debt Rescheduling?' (with Carlos Arteta)
Discussants:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Paolo Pasquariello
1:00 PM - Adjorn
Everyone is invited to lunch immediately following the seminar.
Lecture by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Click here for full event description The event was sponsored by CICS, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, UM Law School, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Democrat Chairman Mark Brewer and Republican Chairman Saul Anuzis will participate in a debate. The session will begin with both chairmen assessing their party's strength in the upcoming 2006 Michigan gubernatorial and U. S. Senate campaigns.
This event is presented as part of the Ford School's PubPol 683 class on 'Elections & Campaigns' and is part of an ongoing segment of the course that invites members of the political community to participate in the class.
Free and open to the public.
A Conference Sponsored by:
Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Michigan Suburbs Alliance
Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies
University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy
Michigan State University Land Policy Program
Citizens Research Council
Michigan Municipal League
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
W.K.
'Perspectives on the WTO Doha Development Agenda Multilateral Trade Negotiations,' conference was hosted by the International Policy Center of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, together with the Department of Economics and the Law School. The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum to discuss the most important issues to be addressed during the December 2005 Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Hong Kong. Robert M.
