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March 31, 2003
UCSC hosts conference on financial instability
in Latin America
By Jennifer McNulty
The financial crisis in Argentina has forced experts to reexamine the
economic policies of the past decade in an effort to discover "what
went wrong" in Latin America.
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Participants include several widely quoted experts and reflect
a range of views.
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On April 11-12, UCSC will host a two-day conference that will bring
together many of the top behind-the-scenes economic advisers who have
helped shape economic policies in Latin America for two decades.
The conference will be a valuable chapter in the ongoing discussion
of what the international financial community can learn from the crisis.
Participants include several widely quoted experts and reflect a range
of views, including panelists who will discuss the social impact of
financial instability in Latin America.
Among the conference participants are:
• Sebastian Edwards, professor of international business economics
at UCLA and former World Bank chief economist for Latin America and
the Caribbean.
• Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science
at UC Berkeley and former senior policy adviser to the International
Monetary Fund.
• Ricardo Hausmann, professor of the practice of economic development
at Harvard University and former chief economist of the Inter-American
Development Bank.
• Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, research director of the Central Bank
of Chile who spent 10 years as a senior economist with the World Bank.
The conference is being sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation at UC San Diego, the Santa Cruz Center for International
Economics at UCSC, Deutsche Bank, and the Journal of International
Money and Finance.
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