How Does My Country Grow? Economic Advice Through Story-telling

Time: 11.30am for 12.00pm start, seminar ends at 1.30pm, followed by book signing and sandwich lunch. 
Venue: Tower 2, room 9.04
Speaker: Brian Pinto (Chief Economist, Emerging Markets, GLG)
Discussants: Willem Buiter (Chief Economist, Citi) and Jonathan Leape (Executive Director, IGC)   
Chair: Ron Anderson (SRC/Department of Finance, LSE)
Seminar title: How Does My Country Grow? Economic Advice Through Story-telling
This special SRC seminar will launch the new book by Brian Pinto “How Does My Country Grow? Economic Advice Through Story-telling”.

Abstract: Economists working on developing countries grapple every day with the widening chasm between academic and real world economics. Brian Pinto’s on-the-job learning at the World Bank was framed by two episodes—the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe, and the emerging market crises of 1997-2001—and four country experiences. He distils a pragmatic growth policy package and evaluates the macroeconomic policy debates that followed the aforementioned crises, concluding with lessons for low-income countries.
Brian Pinto is Chief Economist, Emerging Markets, at GLG in London. Earlier, he worked at the World Bank for close to 30 years, concentrating on transition economics, sovereign debt and economic growth. His field experience includes working as the Bank’s economist in Poland when its transition to a market economy began and subsequently in Russia, witnessing its 1998 crisis and subsequent recovery. He has published in the leading economic journals, including the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the Review of Economic Studies, and coedited a 2005 book, “Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner’s Guide”, with Joshua Aizenman. 
The seminar is co-hosted by the International Growth Centre.
The twitter hashtag for this event is #LSEPinto 

Photographs of the event are available here.