The Centre for Finance and Development has the great pleasure to welcome Prof. Gianni Vaggi for the launch of his new book on Development, The Re-Balancing of Economic Powers. Prof. Vaggi will give an overview of the main development notions and debates from 1950 to the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. He will examine some well-known growth theories from Harrod in 1939 to contemporary debates views about the role of the state and the market, as well as some major structural changes from economic growth in Asia to international finance. He will also analyse why the main development challenge is that of building a global partnership in a system with enormous differences in economic powers and offer some examples of how to re-balance the existing economic powers particularly in trade and finance.

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with:

• H.E. Mr. Diego Aulestia Valencia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the WTO
• Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
• Gianni Vaggi, Professor of Economics of Cooperation and Development and Director of the homonymous Master Program at the University of Pavia, and Director of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network in International Cooperation and Development
• Jean-Luc Maurer, Honorary Professor in Development Studies, The Graduate Institute Geneva
• Ugo Panizza,  Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, The Graduate Institute Geneva