The Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID)

(School Economics and Business Sciences)

and

The Global Labour University (GLU)

at

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

invite you to a talk:

The effect of neoliberal macroeconomic policies on well-being and equality.

by

Professor Stephanie Seguino*

(University of Vermont)

10:30am -12:30pm

16 May 2007

Borkum-Hare Room, 1^st Floor, New Commerce Building, West Campus

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This talk is being held within the framework of the APORDE Seminar (African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics) with the kind support of the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Embassy of France in South Africa and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS)

For more information contact Seeraj Mohamed at Seeraj.mohamed@wits.ac.za

*Stephanie Seguino is Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont. A central issue that her research explores is the welfare effects of globalization. As part of that effort, she investigates the interrelationship between output, growth, and distribution, exploring how the distribution of income—by ethnicity, class, and gender—affects prospects for economic growth and development. Her recent work considers the effects of economic growth on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Asia. She has also investigated the impact of liberalized foreign direct investment on wages and productivity growth. Seguino has collaborated and consulted for numerous organizations, including the UNDP, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, World Bank, and the AFL-CIO. She is Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute, associate editor of Feminist Economics, and a member of the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics (GEM-IWG). Recent publications include “Gender Equity and Globalization: Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries” (with Caren Grown), Journal of International Development (2006); “Is More Mobility Good?: Mobile Capital and the Low Wage Low Productivity Trap,” 2006, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2006);  “Promoting Gender Equality through Labor Standards and Living Wages: An Exploration of the Issues” in Feminist Perspectives on Gender and the World Bank, eds. E. Kupier and D. Barker (2005); “Does Gender Matter for Aggregate Saving? An Empirical Analysis" (with M. S. Floro), International Review of Applied Economics (2003); and “Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-Oriented, Semi-Industrialized Economy” (with R. Blecker), Review of Development Economics (2002).