MIGS WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

ROBERT CALDERISI
author and former World Bank Africa specialist (1979-2002)
Montreal, Quebec

will discuss his new book on

"THE TROUBLE WITH AFRICA: WHY FOREIGN AID ISN'T WORKING "

FRIDAY
13 OCTOBER 2006

12 NOON TO 13:30 P.M.

ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Click here for Robert Calderisi's short piece for the New Statesman.
For a longer essay presenting Robert Calderisi's views on aid to Africa, click here.
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ROBERT CALDERISI is a former student of the Loyola College History Department and Concordia University's first Rhodes Scholar. He went on to study economics at Oxford, Sussex and the London School of Economics, but always with an historical emphasis. He did his M.A. thesis at Sussex on "The Debate over Closer Union in East Africa, 1929-1932," and at LSE he researched the history of economic theory in France. He soon applied his training to contemporary events, first as an economist at the Department of Finance in Ottawa (1971-1975), and then in international development at the Canadian International Development Agency (1975-1978) and the World Bank (1979-2002). He has lived in Tanzania and Cote d'Ivoire, and worked in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. His major experience was of Africa. From 1997 to 2000, he was the World Bank’s international spokesperson on Africa. His new book, The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working (Palgrave/Macmillan and Yale University Press, 2006), is the subject of seminars and lectures at Princeton, the University of Toronto and many other universities.