Making Miracles: The Peril and Promise of Middle-Income Countries
Join us for a conversation about the unique development challenges facing middle-income countries and the World Bank’s upcoming 2024 World Development Report.
About This Event
Middle-income countries are home to most of the world’s extremely poor people. These developing economies comprise about 75 percent of the world’s population and 60 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. How can they expand enterprise, promote human capital, and improve quality of life while also transitioning to cleaner energy sources? Join the Chicago Council in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for an overview of the World Bank’s upcoming 2024 World Development Report and a conversation around the unique development challenges facing middle-income countries.
About the Speakers
Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics
Indermit Gill has a broad combination of leadership, expertise, and practical experience working with governments on macroeconomic imbalances, growth, poverty, institutions, conflict, and climate change. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.
Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research
Poonam Gupta is the Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research and a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
Ufuk Akcigit is the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. His research centers on economic growth, productivity, firm dynamics, and economics of innovation.
Staff Director of the World Bank 2024 World Development Report
Somik Lall is Staff Director of the World Bank’s 2024 World Development Report and an Economic Adviser in the Office of the World Bank Group Chief Economist.
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