Laporde

The Third Latin American Advanced Programme on Rethinking Macro and Development Economics

Hosted by São Paulo School of Economics FGV/SP

09 January – 13 January, 2012

Escola de Economia de São Paulo

Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil

The São Paulo School of Economics is hosting an advanced summer programme on rethinking macro and development economics for the third time in Sao Paulo. The programme builds on the experience of the successful Cambridge Advance Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE) that has been running in Cambridge, UK, for eight years and will be held for the between 9th January and 13th January 2010. The programme will admit a select group of 30 or so young academics from developing countries with a focus in Latin America, and provide them with lectures, discussions, and research workshops with leading scholars on cutting edge topics in macro and development economics from a number of critical perspectives. There will be no tuition fees for the course.

The programme is mainly intended for young academics. This year’s lecturers whose participation are confirmed are, Gabriel Palma (Cambridge University), Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge University), Jomo, K.S. (Assistant-Secretary General, UN), Jan Kregel (Univ. of Missouri), Yoshiaki Nakano (São Paulo School of Economics) , Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (São Paulo School of Economics) and Nelson Barbosa (Secretary on Ministry of Finance, Brasil).

Each day of the workshop will consist of two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon and one short night talk. Each session lasts three-and-half hours. The sessions will be mostly in the form of lectures, which will consist of at least two hours of lecturing and at least 30 minutes of discussions with some breaks. Lectures will be given in English. There will be also informal contacts between students and faculty during lunch, tea and coffee breaks, and possibly some dinners. The details of the provisional program are attached at the end of this announcement.