Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to the Global Economy Lecture 2016

Monday, 28 November 2016, 4:00 pm
Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna
Veranstaltungssaal, ground floor  

’How should Europe meet the duty of rescue towards the displaced and the poor?’

Paul Collier
Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
and Co-Director of the International Growth Centre, Oxford and London School of Economics

The lecture is organized in cooperation with the OeNB. Please register by Wednesday, November 23, 2016, by e-mail to Event-Management@oenb.at

Abstract
In his presentation, Professor Collier will scrutinize the role of public policy in the current refugee crisis. The Syrian refugee situation has been an avoidable tragedy. Thousands have drowned, millions have been neglected. This is the consequence of a chronic failure of public policy. The explanation for this failure is partly that the global refugee system is hopelessly out of date: it is broken. This has been compounded by political responses that have lurched from one populist approach to another, with insufficient thought as to their consequences. The global refugee situation will remain serious for many years, and so urgently requires serious policy attention. The lecture will be based on a forthcoming book, jointly written with Alexander Betts, "Refuge: transforming a broken refugee system".

Speaker
Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. He is a Director of the International Growth Centre (Oxford and LSE) and a Professeur Invité at Sciences Po, Paris.

Best regards,

Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Landesmann
Senior Research Associate, Scientific Director (1996–2016)

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