The World Bank/Robert H. Smith
School of Business
Management & Leadership Forum
Presents:
Eight
Sizes Fit All: The Challenges of Public
and Private
Delivery of Services in the Global
Marketplace
Shantayanan
Devarajan, Chief Economist for
the World Bank's South Asia Region
Friday, March 5, 2004,
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Reception to Follow
Howard Frank Auditorium
Robert H. Smith School of Business
RSVP BY MARCH 1, 2004:
Gabrielle Graves in the Masters Programs
Office
ggraves@rhsmith.umd.edu or by phone at
301-405-7852
The Robert H. Smith School of
Business and The World Bank will
continue the series of business and
management discussion engagements
focusing on managerial dilemmas in the
global marketplace. These sessions take
place in the Howard Frank Auditorium on
the first floor of Van Munching Hall
(1524).
Shantayanan Devarajan the Chief
Economist for the World Bank's South
Asia Region, editor of the World Bank
Research Observer, and staff director
for this year's World Development Report
(Making Services Work for Poor People)
will review the main messages of the
World Development Report which has
attracted widespread attention since its
launch last fall, and engage a
discussion on challenges related to
public and private delivery of services
in the global marketplace.
Since joining the World Bank in 1991,
Devarajan has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public
Economics in the Development Research
Group, as well as the Chief Economist of
the Human Development Network. Before
1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of
Government. The author or co-author of
over 100 publications, Devarajan's
research covers public economics, trade
policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general-equilibrium
modeling of developing countries. Born
in Sri Lanka, Devarajan received his
A.B. in mathematics from Princeton
University and his Ph.D. in economics
from the University of California at
Berkeley.
This event is sponsored by the
Masters Program Office and the Office of
Executive Education.
