Welcome and Introductory Address

Roberto Tamborini, Director, Department of Economics, University of Trento
Giuseppe Folloni, University of Trento

Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General of UNCTAD, Geneva
“Fighting Poverty as a world-wide goal”

Debate

Chair: Christopher Gilbert, University of Trento

Andriano Brandolini, Bank of Italy
“The panel-of-country approach to explaining income inequality”

Cecilia Garcia Peñalosa, GREQAM and CNRS
“Inequality and Macroeconomic volatility”

Gabriella Berloffa and Maria Luigia Segnana, University of Trento
“Poverty, inequality and growth: What we (don’t) know”

Chair: Giuseppe Folloni, University of Trento

Mario Cimoli, ECLAC
“Structural heterogeneity and growth”

Riccardo Faini, Tor Vergata University, Rome
“Labour market in DCs, brain drain and growth”

Chair: Maria Luigia Segnana, University of Trento

Alan Winters, Sussex University
“Trade liberalization, growth and poverty: A review”

Branko Milanovich, CEIP
“Can we disconcern the effect of globalization on income distribution”

Chair: Ferdinando Targetti, University of Trento

Christopher Gilbert and David Vines, University of Trento and Balliol College, Oxford
“The IMF and International Financial Architecture: Solvency and Liquidity”

James Boughton, IMF
“Ownership and Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs”