Dr. Kotwal is professor at the Economics department at the University of British Columbia and will be speaking for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). This is a short introduction on Dr. Kotwal and his discussion at UBCMUN.
His major research areas include analysis of organizational structures in LDCs, labour and credit markets in LDCs, interaction between agriculture and industry, economic reforms in India and their impact on poverty, and political economy of developmental policy-making. His fields of interest in Economics have been Development Economics and International Trade and his geographical area of interest is South Asia. His current research projects include understanding the impact of economic reform on employment and poverty in India over the last 20 years.
Dr. Kotwal will be discussing “The Key Question in Development Today”. This will revolve discussions about what the top priority for the World Bank should be. As you may already know the World Bank’s main goal is to reduce world-wide poverty. But where it should focused its attention on? The poorest countries? Post-conflict societies and fragile states? Middle-income countries? Does it justify prioritizing on the poorest countries first before focusing on middle-income countries? Does it make sense to focus on post-conflict states as their infrastructure and physical assets are often destroyed? Should the World Bank even work on rebuilding these societies, given that about half relapse into violence within 10 years? Should it focus on middle-income countries as they already have some infrastructure but lack funds?
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