In the 2012 Hagey Lecture, Professor Paul Collier examines the steps that must be taken for African nations to sustainably capitalize on their natural resources.
Thursday, November 22nd at 8:00pm, Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall
The natural resource discoveries that will come onstream in Africa over the next decade constitute a once-a-lifetime chance for the region to develop. But when parts of the region last had this chance, in the 1970s, it was mostly a missed opportunity and sometimes led to violent conflict. To harness resources for development requires that a chain of economic decisions go right, and this in turn rests on functional politics. Currently these vital political struggles are being played out within Africa between decent people and crooks. The international community can play its part by cracking down on the facilitators of corruption who currently thrive on the margins of our own professions.
Dr. Paul Collier is a Professor of Economics and the Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and he acted as the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank from 1998-2003.
Waterloo's premier invitational public lecture series since 1970, the Hagey Lectures are co-sponsored by the Faculty Association and the University of Waterloo.
