Posted on March 3: Lecture explores political economy of global poverty reduction

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/tim_besley_opt.jpg” caption=”Tim Besley”]Mainstream economic thinking on how to reduce poverty has evolved in the last couple of decades. Timothy Besley, professor of economics and political science at the London School of Economics (LSE) will explore this at the 2004 Hooker Distinguished Lecture in Economics on Thursday, March 4.

The public lecture, called “The Political Economy of Global Poverty Reduction” will take place in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, Rm. 505 from 3-4:30 p.m. His lecture will explore improving human welfare and how to cut in half the proportion of people living in poverty.

Besley is director of the Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE and a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His work focuses mainly on issues in development economics, public economics and political economy.

Click here for a biography on Besley.

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[img_inline align="right" src="http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/tim_besley_opt.jpg" caption="Tim Besley"]Mainstream economic thinking on how to reduce poverty has evolved in the last couple of decades. Timothy Besley, professor of economics and political science at the London School of Economics (LSE) will explore this at the 2004 Hooker Distinguished Lecture in Economics on Thursday, March 4.<p><br />
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The public lecture, called "The Political Economy of Global Poverty Reduction" will take place in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, Rm. 505 from 3-4:30 p.m. His lecture will explore improving human welfare and how to cut in half the proportion of people living in poverty. <p><br />
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Besley is director of the Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE and a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His work focuses mainly on issues in development economics, public economics and political economy. <p><br />
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<a href="http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/tbesley/tbesley_shortbio.pdf">Click here</a> for a biography on Besley.

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