Autumn 2010 | Public lectures and events | Video

London School of Economics and Political Science•www.lse.ac.uk

Video files from LSE's autumn 2010 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.

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IGC Growth Week 2010 - Industrial Productivity

Contributor(s): Professor Chang-Tai Hsieh, Rasheed Adegbenro, Ludovico Alcorta, Professor Haroon Bhorat | What do we know about the importance of industrial productivity to a country's standards of living, both in absolute terms and relative to agricultural productivity, to improvements in capital intensity and to improvements in schooling? What do we know about the sources of industrial productivity growth, especially in the developing world? Drawing on evidence from India, China, and Mexico, C...

Sep 21, 2010•1 hr 24 min

IGC Growth Week 2010 - Mobile Phones for Development

Contributor(s): Dr Jenny Aker, Ken Banks, Dawn Haig-Thomas | Mobile phones have the potential to contribute significantly to economic growth in the developing world, in both the private and public sector. From improving market information for fish traders in Lake Victoria, to enabling medical outreach services in rural South Asia, the mobile is a versatile and adaptable tool. What impact can mobiles have on those previously excluded from financial services and communications networks? Which poli...

Sep 20, 2010•1 hr 15 min

IGC Growth Week 2010 - Managing Natural Resource Rents: China and Africa

Contributor(s): Professor Paul Collier, Dr Christopher Alden, Dr Gobind Nankani, Alan Winters | Is China's strategy - of negotiating deals in which resources are exchanged for infrastructure - mutually beneficial, or a new variant of the plunder of Africa? China 'asks no questions' of African governments: is that respectful of African sovereignty or an abrogation of responsibility?

Sep 20, 2010•1 hr 34 min

The Future of IT in India

Contributor(s): S.D. Shibulal | S.D. Shibulal is one of the co-founders and member of the Board of Directors of Infosys Technologies Limited. Shibu, as he is fondly called, has over three decades of IT leadership experience. He has played a pivotal role in the Infosys journey and a signal role in the evolution of the Global Delivery Model which is now the de-facto industry standard for delivery for outsourced IT services.

Sep 14, 2010•1 hr 3 min

Employment, labour markets, and development

Contributor(s): Dr Heiner Flassbeck | Launch Lecture of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2010. As nations struggle with what they fear will be a "jobless recovery" from the global recession, the report studies how employment can be raised in developing countries and how the participation of the majority of the population in economic growth can be warranted. The report recommends a fundamental change in the assignment of economic policies to allow for growth, inclusion, high employment and...

Sep 13, 2010•1 hr 30 min

The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse

Contributor(s): Geoffrey Robertson | The Case of the Pope delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that has shielded paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally responsible or legally liable under domestic or international law for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law? To what...

Sep 08, 2010•1 hr 17 min

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