New York City, USA (October 20-24, 2008)
October 20, 2008
New York, New York, United States
COVERING DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION
The International Institute for Journalism in Berlin (part of the German development agency InWent) again sent a group of journalists to New York for a one-week seminar organized by IPD. Graham Watts led the team and reporters met with KS Jomo and Isabel Ortiz from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, heard Nobel laureates Bob Mundel and Joseph Stiglitz discuss the financial crisis, visited Bloomberg and the New York Stock Exchange.
Additional Related/Relevant Information
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'This is Worse Than the Dotcom Crisis'
Interview with IPD Co-President Joseph Stiglitz in Business Standard. http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?leftnm=3&leftindx=3&subLeft=1&autono=339478 |
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Nobel Laureate Warns of ‘Disastrous Consequences’
Joseph Stiglitz discusses the recession in Business World Online. http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/ipd/files/workshops/Stiglitz%20story.pdf |
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UN Calls for Policies With 'Human Face'
UN-DESA's senior Interregional Advisor Isabel Ortiz on the need for improved economic and social policies. |