Development, Law, and Economics
IAD Distinguished Africanist Scholar, Fall 2021
Nkatha Kabira
Dr Nkatha Kabira is a Lecturer at the University of Nairobi, School of Law and a postdoctoral Fellow at the Ife Institute for Advanced Studies, Ile Ife, Nigeria. She completed her doctoral degree at Harvard Law School in May 2015 and has since been working towards converting her doctoral thesis into a book titled, “The Law of Commissions: A Case Study of The Place of Commissions in Law and Governance in Kenya.” The study is the culmination of work done over a period of 10 years in the areas of law and development, constitution making and implementation, legal and institutional reform, rule of law, regulation of the state and the administration of justice. She has professional and research experience in several areas ranging from law and language to democracy and governance and to gender and the law.
DAS Lecture: Covid-19, Gender and the Law, Thursday, September 9, 2021, G-08 Uris Hall @ 2:40pm
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Financing Africa's Post-COVID-19 Development
African Economic Conference
Date: 2 – 4 December 2021 Venue: Cabo Verde
The 2021 edition of the African Economic Conference, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is planned to be held in Cabo Verde from 2 to 4 December 2021. The theme of this year’s conference is “Financing Africa’s post-COVID-19 development”. Considering the multidimensional impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa’s development, this theme will bring together various stakeholders, including policymakers, the private sector, and researchers, to examine ways and means to expand Africa’s development finance sources sustainably. Africa’s different financing frameworks should be explored to find innovative solutions, beyond the beaten track, so that Africa does not emerge from the COVID-19 crisis with a real loss of more than a decade of efforts to strengthen its economy and human capital.
The deepening of financial intermediation mechanisms and monetary policy instruments is therefore much more urgent. The monetary models of certain African sub-regions such as West Africa are thus urgently questioned by the populations.
The shock of COVID-19 presents Africa with a game-changing opportunity to put its financing strategies on a more sustainable footing. The AEC 2021 will be an occasion to stimulate this reflection.
Diverse perspectives will be represented at the conference, which will be attended by researchers, policymakers, the private sector, financial institutions and banks, development practitioners, young people, and women from Africa and from around the world. The conference will provide a platform for established academics and young researchers to present their solution-oriented research to policymakers and decision-makers. It is expected that at the end of the conference, policy recommendations will be made on strengthening Africa’s financing system to build-forward better within the framework of the United Nations decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals.
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What Is Insider Trading and When Is It Illegal?
Robert Hockett, Einaudi
“The worry is that if this [insider trading] happens often, people won't be as willing to buy stocks and they'd be less trusting of the market in general,” says Robert C. Hockett, professor of law. “Less investment money flowing into companies can mean fewer productive activities, wealth generation, and even employment opportunities.”
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Liberian Studies Association 52nd annual conference
The Functional Liberian State: Historical Lessons, Current Best Practices, and Future Paths
Virtual Conference
The 52nd annual conference of the Liberian Studies Association (LSA) will focus on an array of questions and issues through multidisciplinary presentations that will strive to construct a road map for the creation of the functional Liberian state.
April 22-24, 2021 10:00am-6:00pm (EST) Register
Creating structures and favorable conditions that lead to the construction of a functional state requires active participation, comprehensive commitment, and effective institutions, among others. A functional state fosters in the people such qualities as initiatives and inventiveness and steadies improvement in their overall condition. The functional state seeks to eliminate systematic denial of entitlements to resources and services, remove impediments to participate on equal terms in social, economic, political and cultural arenas, and create an enabling environment for transformation.
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IAD Global Africa Monthly Webinar Series
BLACK LIVES MATTER ET PROGRÈS SOCIAL: L’INDISPENSABLE CONVERGENCE DES LUTTES EN AFRIQUE, AUX USA ET DANS LA DIASPORA GLOBALE
Friday, April 30, 2021
an interview with Her Excellency Dr. Aminata D. Traoré former Minister of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Mali, activist, author, oordinator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Dr. Traoré is based in Bamako, Mali.Languages: English and French with simultaneous translation.
Interviewers: Dr. Rokhaya Diallo, journalist, author, filmmaker, and activist for racial, gender and religious equality. Dr. Diallo is based in Paris, France.
Dr. Gregory S. Jenkins, Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography, and African Studies at Penn State University. Professor Jenkins is based in Pennsylvania, USA.
Open to the public. The interview will be followed by a Q & A.
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Study: European unions’ support varies for precarious workers
“Dualism or Solidarity? Conditions for Union Success in Regulating Precarious Work,”
The paper was co-authored by Laura Carver, M.S. 20, and Virginia Doellgast, associate professor of international and comparative labor in the ILR School.
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A Conversation with Rahul Gandhi
March 2, 2021
9:30 am
Rahul Gandhi, member of India’s Parliament and former president of the Indian National Congress, will join Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, for an open conversation on democracy, development, and life in politics, India, and the world. Q&A with Cornell students and faculty will follow.
Rahul Gandhi has been a member of the Lok Sabha (India’s lower house of Parliament) since 2004. He currently represents the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala. In 2007, he was named general secretary of the Indian National Congress in charge of the party's youth and student organizations. In January 2013, he assumed office as vice president of the Indian National Congress. He was the president of the Indian National Congress from December 2017 to July 2019.
Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. He attended St. Stephen’s College, Delhi; Harvard University; and Rollins College. He has an M. Phil. in development studies from Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Kaushik Basu is professor of economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies. From 2012 to 2016 he was chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. Educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the London School of Economics, Basu has published extensively in development economics, game theory, and industrial organization. His most recent book The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics was published by Princeton University Press in 2018.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Leaders of Sarayaku: Connecting Indigenous Roots, Session I, Feb 24, 11am, a LASP-CUSLAR Public Issues Forum
February 24, 2021
11:00 am
Sarayaku’s Kichwa communities were central to Ecuador’s first National Indigenous Uprising in 1990 and are at the forefront of indigenous rights mobilization. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's indigenous communities and learn more about indigenous cosmologies & human rights frameworks. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's indigenous communities (Abigail Gualinga, Mario Santi, Yaku Viteri, and Fausto Santi) and learn more about indigenous cosmologies & human rights frameworks.
Registration required: https://bit.ly/3anacht
Co-Sponsors: American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS), Latin American Studies Program, funded in part by its UISFL grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education, CUSLAR (Committee on U.S. Latin American Relations), and the Cornell Law School
For more informaton and a beautiful film check this out: https://amazonwatch.org/work/sarayaku
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Cornell Blockchain Creating Digital Currency
CRADLE Leader Advises the Student Club
Blockchain adviser Robert Hockett codirects Einaudi's CRADLE initiative and development, law, and economics research theme. #IEW2020
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China Pulls Ahead Among Major Economies in Pandemic Recovery
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, professor of economics, says that China is likely to be the “key driver of global growth” in 2020 and 2021.