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Inaugural Session
Nobel Laureate Professor Robert W Fogel,
Director, Center for Population Economics and Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, Booth School of Business, Member of Economics Department, Member of Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago Research Associate, National Bureau of Economics Research
Robert William Fogel received his B.A. from Cornell University, his M.A. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D., in Economics, from The Johns Hopkins University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester, Cambridge University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and the director of the Center for Population Economics in the Booth School of Business, as well as a member of both the Department of Economics and the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1993, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics (with Douglass C. North). During his graduate work under Simon Kuznets, he became interested in combining the study of economics and history to understand long-term technological and institutional change. Early work focused on railroads and economic growth in American history, which was followed by analyses of the economics of American slavery (jointly with S. L. Engerman) published as Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) and Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (4 vols., 1989-1992). In 2000, he published a reinterpretation of America’s current prosperity, material and spiritual, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. Beginning in the mid-1970s, he began to study the secular decline in mortality and the improvement in health and nutrition. Since the mid-1980s, he has focused on the changing pattern of aging over the life cycle in the United States. Findings from this project were published in The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004). He was selected as the Indispensable Person of the Year for 2006 by the Alliance for Aging Research for his contributions to the study of health and aging. His other current research includes an examination of the role of Simon Kuznets in twentieth-century economic thought, forecasts of global economic growth (especially with respect to China and India), and forecasts of the U.S. demand for health care.
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Prof Lawrence Haddad,
Director, Institute of Development Studies,
Sussex, UK
Topic: Seven ways to make it more difficult to neglect the crisis of undernutrition
Professor Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. He is an economist and has been working at the intersection of poverty, agriculture and nutrition for the past 25 years.
Presentation Abstract:
Why is the growth of India's economy so much stronger than the growth of its children? This presentation focuses on some ideas to make sure that the neglected crisis of undernutrition is less easy to neglect in the future. It focuses on new approaches to strengthening the enabling environment for nutrition including new perspectives on nutrition leadership, nutrition surveillance, nutrition diagnostics and the monitoring nutrition commitments.
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