(16 April 2013) Renowned Brazilian economics professor Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to deliver the 12th Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture Series and take part in the Seminar on neo-structuralism and heterodox economics, which will be held on 22 and 23 April 2013.
On Monday 22 April at 11.00 a.m., Professor Gonzaga Belluzzo will deliver his address entitled "Transformations in centre-periphery relations and their impact on development in Latin America and the Caribbean" to an audience made up of authorities, members of the diplomatic corps, academics, experts from international agencies and civil society representatives.
He will be received by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, who will welcome him on behalf of this United Nations regional commission.
The Prebisch Memorial Lecture was set up in April 2001, to mark the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Raúl Prebisch, former Executive Secretary of ECLAC and one of its main inspirations. Major figures from Latin American economics have taken part in the Lecture Series.
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo is a tenured professor at the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil. He was the Economic Policy Secretary of his country's Ministry of Finance (1985-1987) and Science and Technology Secretary for the state of São Paulo (1988-1990).
After the lecture by Professor Gonzaga Belluzzo, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC will open the Seminar on neo-structuralism and heterodox economics, which will be held until Wednesday 23 April in the Commission's premises.
The seminar aims to promote an interaction between the structuralist tradition and various heterodox approaches for the analysis of current development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean, and will be attended by high-level participants.
Participants will include Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo; Robert Boyer, from the Institute of the Americas, France; José Antonio Ocampo, from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, United States; and Jan Kregel, Director of the Monetary Policy and Financial Structure Program of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, United States.
Also taking part are Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Jorge Katz, professors at the University of Chile; João Carlos Ferraz, Vice-President of the Development Bank of Brazil (BNDES); Fernando Porta, Main Researcher at the Centre for Studies on Science, Development and Higher Education(REDES), Argentina; and Fernando Filgueira, Assistant Representative for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Uruguay.
The media are invited to attend the 12th Prebisch Memorial Lecture and the Seminar on neo-structuralism and heterodox economics, which will take place at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Raúl Prebisch Conference Room).
More information is available in Spanish on the ECLAC website.
Any queries should be sent to the ECLAC Public Information and Web Services Section.
E-mail: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: (56 2) 2210 2040.
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