Speaker Series on the Role of Foreign Aid in Solving Global Poverty
What works, what doesn’t, and why it matters
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Foreign aid serves as a catalyst for global progress, providing essential resources, expertise, and support to countries striving to improve the well-being of their populations and achieve sustainable development goals. At this King Center Speaker Series event, Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Chief Economist at USAID, and Katherine Casey, Faculty Director of the King Center, will explore the role of foreign aid in development—what’s working, what’s not, and why it matters.
Schedule:
4:30 PM–5:00 PM: Registration and reception
5:00 PM–6:00 PM: Talk by Dean Karlan, followed by Q&A moderated by Katherine Casey
About the Speaker:
Dean Karlan, Agency Chief Economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Dean Karlan serves as the Agency Chief Economist and leads USAID's Office of the Chief Economist and is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, co-Director with Nancy Qian and Christopher Udry of the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University. He is also the Founder and former President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems.
Karlan also previously served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT. In 2015, he also co-founded ImpactMatters, a nonprofit dedicated to estimating and rating impact of nonprofit organizations in order to help donors choose good charities and to promote more transparency in the nonprofit sector.
In 2011, Karlan co-authored More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty; in 2016 he co-authored Failing in the Field; in 2018 he co-authored The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector; and in 2020 he co-authored the third edition of an economics principles textbook, Economics.
About the Moderator:
Katherine Casey, Faculty Director at the King Center on Global Development
Katherine Casey is a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Faculty Director of the King Center on Global Development. Her research explores interactions between economic and political forces in low-income countries, with particular interest in strategies to improve governance and spur local economic development. Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Science, among others. She teaches a course in the MBA program focused on firm strategy vis a vis government policy in a diverse set of international markets.
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