The Global Development Network Newsletter 
GDNews # 38

April 2005

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In this issue:

GDN Annual Conference in Dakar
 New Legal Status
 New Chair of the Board
 Update on GDN’s move to India
 Awards and Medals Winners
New GDN book

Project 

"Macroeconomic Policy Challenges of Low Income Countries"

What's New in GDN?

GDN held its Sixth Annual 
Global Development Conference
"Developing and Developed Worlds: Mutual Impact," in Dakar,
January 23-26, 2005. Speakers included: 
Abdoulaye Wade, the President of Senegal, 
Paul Collier, professor of Oxford University,
and Rajiv Shah, Global Development Council member from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 
A comment of one conference participant
captured the essence of the common feedback that we have received:
"The conference was one of the most enriching experiences that I have had
so
far in my academiclife" 
(Sandra Sookram, Researcher, 
the University of the
West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago).

 New Legal Status. On January 23, 2005 in Dakar, Senegal, GDN took
a historic step towardsbecoming an International Organization when
representatives of Egypt,Italy and Senegal signed the Agreement
establishing
GDN as an International Organization. Since then, representatives of
Colombia
and Sri Lanka have also signed. India and Mexico are expected to do so
shortly.

 Ernesto Zedillo: The GDN Board of Directors unanimously elected
Ernesto
Zedillo,the former President of Mexico, as chair for a three-year term
beginning
on January 1, 2005.

 Relocation to India: The GDN Secretariat has identified its new
premises
in Delhi and recruited local staff. The official opening of the office is
scheduled
for April 8, 2005. The event will honor Dr. Lalith Jayawardena; former
chairman of
GDN’s Board and will be graced by the presence of Dr. Manmohan Singh, the
Prime
Minister of India.

Please note that GDN office in Washington D.C. will be closed with effect
from
March 31, 2005. We ask that you therefore not use the D.C. contact
information
after this date. As soon as they become available, we will post contact
phone
numbers and email addresses on our website: 

www.gdnet.org. 

Here is new GDN
address
in India:

2nd floor, West Wing,
ISID Complex,
Vasant Vihar Institutional Area,
New Delhi-, 110070, India
Tel: 91-11-3959-4091

Events:

6th Annual Global Development Conference 

in Dakar Senegal 

January 24-26 

2004

New GDN book: 
Globalization and Equity:
Perspectives from the Developing World

Selected papers presented at the 

Fourth Annual Global Development
Conference 

(Cairo, January 2003) 

have been published by Edward Elgar 

as an edited volume.

This book analyzes the links between globalization and equity from
the perspectives of seven regions: the Commonwealth of Independent
States, East Asia and South Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, Latin
America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

It presents the views of researchers from the developing world; voices
that are seldom heard in the ongoing debate on globalization, and
provides models of successful research conducted in developing and
transition countries, thus promoting homegrown expertise.

The contributions from different regions reflect their disparate
experiences and represent diverse positions on globalization and
equity. Nevertheless, they reveal a fledgling consensus on the benefits
of the developing world’s entry into a global universe and the necessity
for prudent adjustment to the perils of this endeavor.

Book details:

Editors:
NATALIA DINELLO, Principal Political Scientist at the Secretariat of
the Global Development Network.

LYN SQUIRE, President of the Global Development Network

Contributors:
S. IBI AJAYI, Professor of Economics at the University of Ibadan,
Nigeria
ALI ABDEL GADIR ALI, Economic Advisor with the Arab Planning Institute
in Kuwait ROBERTO BOUZAS, Professor at Universidad de San Andrés,
Argentina

CHIA SIOW YUE, Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of
International
Affairs, and the former regional coordinator of the East Asian Development
Network

RICARDO FFRENCH-DAVIS, Post-graduate Professor of International Economics
at the
University of Chile

SISIRA JAYASURIYA, Director of the Asian Economics Centre and Associate
Professor
in Economics at the University of Melbourne, Australia

GRZEGORZ W. KOLODKO, Director of Transformation, Integration and
Globalization
Economic Research at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and
Management in Warsaw, Poland

KSENIA YUDAEVA, Director for Policy Studies 

at the: 

Center for Economic and
Financial Research in Moscow.  

Obtain a copy of the book from 

Edward Elgar Publishing 

 website:
https://www.e-elgar.co.uk/

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