From Charity to Investment: An Evening with Professor Asim Khwaja
Organized by the Harvard Club of France, part of the HKS Dinner Series
Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
Time: 8:00pm onwards
Where: Ricette Ristorante, 10 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris
Who: Harvard community (+1 guest possible)
Cost: The 45 euros ticket includes a two-course menu and one drink.
If you have any dietary restrictions, please let the organizing team know in advance and we will plan accordingly.
We are thrilled to invite you to an exceptional event with Professor Asim Khwaja, the Director of the Harvard Center for International Development (CID).
Professor Khwaja will explain how CID is reimagining international development over a delicious dinner at Ricette Ristorante, an Italian restaurant in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
During the dinner, Professor Khwaja proposes to critically examine the opportunities and limitations in international development marked by a shift from traditional charitable approaches to more sustainable, investment-driven strategies. Professor Khwaja will share his vision of CID being at the forefront of reimagining the global development paradigm through investment in global talent and innovative research. He will then delve into how CID challenges the effectiveness of traditional aid models, while championing transformative investment-driven and collaborative approaches aimed at addressing the growing complexities of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability within a rapidly evolving multipolar economic order.
As part of the HKS dinner series, as always, conversation will be open and guests will freely exchange together with the speaker.
Professor Khwaja’s bio:
Asim I. Khwaja is Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).
His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy.
He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets, such as The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.
His recent work ranges from understanding market failures in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 to pursue research on how religious institutions impact individual beliefs.
Khwaja received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. He was born in London, U.K. and lived in Kano, Nigeria and Lahore, Pakistan before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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We will be joined by Farah Kaddah, a research fellow at CID who is working with Professor Khwaja.
Join us for this very rich event!
Only 10+ seats will be available for this small group dinner! Please save your spot as soon as possible and before May 14th!
We look forward to seeing you!
Organizers:
Audrène Eloit, Isabelle Roux-Buisson, and Annick Steta
Date
- May 15 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 8:00 pm
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Location
- 10 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris, France