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Add to Calendar 2022-05-11 15:00:00 2025-04-25 07:03:43 DebtCon Virtual Session: Paper Presentations Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

The Policy Center for the New South is pleased to organize an online parallel event in the framework of the Annual Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Conference, organized by the Graduate Institute of Geneva, the European University Institute and the GeorgeTown University.

The objective of DebtCon4 is to discuss state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on sovereign debt and related policy issues, and to foster interaction among academics, senior policymakers, supervisors, industry representatives and other practitioners. The conference will include both high-level roundtables, where practice, policy and research will meet, and parallel sessions, where research papers will be presented.

This parallel event will be comprised of two sessions.

The first session will be organized on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 3:00 pm GMT+1  and will feature the following paper presentations:

  • Preventing and Managing Debt Crises: The Role of Debt Transparency

Rym Ayadi, Founder and Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association

  • COVID-19 and Debt Sustainability Issues for Developing Countries

Hinh Dinh, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

  • Debt Forgiveness in the time of COVID-19

Sayantan Ghosal, Professor of Economics, Adam Smith Business School

The discussion will be broadcast live on the Policy Center for the New South’s social media platforms: YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

 

15h00 – 16h30   

Paper Presentations - DebtCon

Moderator

Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Speakers

- Rym Ayadi, Founder and Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association
- Hinh T. Dinh, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
- Sayantan Ghosal, Professor of Economics, Adam Smith Business School
- Dania Thomas, Lecturer in Business Law, Adam Smith Business School

Speakers
Rym Ayadi
Founder and Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association
Rym Ayadi is the Founder and President of the Euro – Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA). She is Founder and Director of the Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES). She is Senior Advisor at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS); Professor at the Bayes Business School, City University of London and Member of the Centre for Banking Research (CBR); Chair of the European Banking Authority – Banking Stakeholders Group (EBA- BSG). She is also Associated Scholar at the Centre for Relationship Banking and Economics (CERBE) at LUMSA University in Rome. ...
Otaviano Canuto
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. ...
Hinh T. Dinh
Senior Fellow
Hinh T. Dinh is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Morocco and President of Economic Growth and Transformation, LLC., VA, USA. Previously, he spent over 35 years working at the World Bank Group where his last position was Lead Economist in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. He has authored and co-authored books published by the World Bank, Oxford University, and the Policy Center for the New South, and has written articles in professional journals covering public finance, international finance, and industrialization. His latest books include Tales from the Development Frontier (2013), Light Manufacturing in Vietnam (2013), Jobs, Industrialization, and Globalization (2017), Morocco (2020), and COVID-19 and Developing Countries (202 ...
Sayantan Ghosal
Professor of Economics, Adam Smith Business School
Sayantan is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School and Dean of Interdisciplinarity and Impact at the Colege of Social Sciences. He was a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from 2004 to 2013 where he was Research Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He also has a PhD from CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain under the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics. ...