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Go to todayChanging African Attitudes to Foreign Aid |
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| Robert Calderisi is Africa Commissioner for the Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa. An economist and writer, he studied at the Universities of Montreal, Oxford, Sussex and London. He started his career at the Department of Finance in Ottawa in 1971, moved to the Canadian International Development Agency in 1975 and to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in 1978, then spent 22 years at the World Bank, where he was Country Division Chief for Indonesia and the South Pacific (1987-89), head of the Bank’s Regional Mission in Western Africa in the Ivory Coast (1991-94), the Bank’s international spokesman on Africa (1997-2000) and Country Director for Central Africa (2000-2002). He left the Bank in July 2002 and now lives in Montreal. Mr. Calderisi has published several books, including The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, and London: Yale University Press, 2006) and most recently Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa. |
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| Date | November 12, 2009 |
| Time | 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM |
| Location | G08 Uris Hall |
| Speakers | Robert Calderisi (Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa) |
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For more information on this event contact: Evangeline Ray 607-255-5499 er26@cornell.edu |
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