Dr. Luis Eslava, Professor of International Law at La Trobe University, will deliver a talk titled:
“International Development at a Crossroads, Once Again: Global Poverty and the 21st Century”
Although significant progress has been made on the reduction of ‘extreme’ poverty over the past decades, most of the world’s population continues to live just above the so-called international poverty line today – currently defined as living with less than $2.15 per day. With traditional developmental avenues no longer available to governments, particularly in the Global South, and the global environment unable to cope with more dirty development, the nature and experience of, and the solutions to today’s global ‘new poverty’, as we could call it, should be re-evaluated. This talk will trace the shifts and turns in the international legal and development order that have generated the current state of global poverty, particularly at this point when the international development project is, once again, at a crossroads.
We hope you can join us!