Economics and Statistics

Distinguished Speakers Program

The Distinguished Speakers Program is one of ADB's most visible forums to network with eminent scholars and policy practitioners to keep abreast of the latest progress and debates on cutting-edge development issues.

Begun in 1982, a total of 45 distinguished scholars have visited ADB under the Program, including Jagdish Bhagwati, Lawrence Klein, Anne Krueger, Jeffrey Sachs, and Amartya Sen.

TITLE		DATE AND VENUE	SPEAKER
	Measuring Sustainable Development	03 October 2007 , ADB Headquarters	Partha Dasgupta
	India: The Past and Its Future	15 November 2006, ADB Headquarters	Raghuram Rajan
	Development Lessons for Asia from non-Asian Countries	31 March 2006, ADB Headquarters	Dani Rodrik
	Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid	18 January 2006, ADB Headquarters	William Easterly
	Development Strategies for Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia	11 October 2004, ADB Headquarters	Justin Yifu Lin
	Globalization, Technology, and Asian Development [PDF: 188 kb | 18 pages]	7 April 2003, ADB Headquarters	Joseph Stiglitz
	Poverty, Growth and Globalization: Facts, Myths and Misconceptions	30 January 2002, ADB Headquarters	Montek Singh Ahluwalia
	The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries [PDF: 156 kb | 13 pages]	9 October 2001, ADB Headquarters	Assar Lindbeck
	Understanding Digital Technology's Evolution: From Productivity Paradoxes and Payoffs, to the Digital Divide [PDF: 366 kb | 32 pages]	15 September 2000, ADB Headquarters	Paul David
	Managing Inequality in the Developing World [PDF: 1,000 kb | 16 pages]	16 November 1999, ADB Headquarters	Nancy Birdsall
	Forty Years of Public Economics: A Personal Perspective [PDF: 268 kb | 16 pages]	4 August 1997, ADB Headquarters	Jacques H. Dreze
	Incentive Mechanisms Around and Within International Financial Organizations [PDF: 2,549 kb | 34 pages]	30 October 1998, ADB Headquarters	Koichi Hamada
	Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Light of the East Asian Experiences [PDF: 4,664 kb | 61 pages]	31 October 1995, ADB Headquarters	Jeffrey Sachs
	The State and the Market in Industrial Development: Perspectives from the 1980s [PDF: 44 kb | 10 pages]	11 November 1994, ADB Headquarters	George Rosen
	Asia and a Sustainable Earth [PDF: 64 kb | 10 pages]	6 June 1994, ADB Headquarters	Maurice Strong
	Two Concepts of Reform: Can Liberalization Help the Poor? [PDF: 793 kb | 8 pages]	30 March 1994, ADB Headquarters	Michael Lipton
	Global Economic Governance - Some Thoughts on our Current Discontents [PDF: 116 kb | 18 pages]	28 February 1994, ADB Headquarters	I.G. Patel
	The Changing International Financial Situation and it's Impact on Asia [PDF: 56 kb | 8 pages]	23 November 1992, ADB Headquarters	Toyoo Gyohten
	Investment and Global Economic Interdependence [PDF: 36 kb |5 pages]	29 June 1992, ADB Headquarters	Ambassador Eliot Richardson
	Human Development: The Asian Dilemma [PDF: 42 kb | 8 pages]	27 April 1992, ADB Headquarters	Mahbubul Haq
	Flying Wild-Geese in the Pacific: Patterns of Industrial Development Among Asian Countries [PDF: 1,003 kb | 33 pages]	27 November 1990, ADB Headquarters	Ippei Yamazawa
	Financial Repression and the Productivity of Capital: Empirical Findings on Interest Rates and Exchange Rates [PDF: 1,160 kb | 26 pages]	23 July 1990, ADB Headquarters	Ronald I. McKinnon