Conference Program
Sunday, November 8, 2015
1:15-1:30: Opening and Welcome
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Chief Economist and Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
1:30-3:00: Session I: Dreams and Nightmares: A General Theory of an Egalitarian Social Model
3:00-4:30: Session II: Setting the scene: From the 19th to the 21st Century Welfare State: Broader Mandates, More Instruments, Greater Challenges
4:30-4:45: Break
4:45-6:15: Session III: The Welfare Model: Western Europe vs. US
Monday, November 9, 2015
9:00-10:30: Session IV: The Welfare Model in Europe: Scandinavian countries
10:30-12:00: Session V: The Welfare Model in Latin America
12:00 -1:00: Break for Lunch
1:00-2:30: Session VI: Going beyond: Facilitating work and protecting families and children
2:30-2:45: Break
2:45-4:15: Session VII: Innovations in Social Protection and Protecting the Older Persons
4:15-5:00: The Construction of a 21st Century Welfare State
Wrapping Up and Next Steps:
Final Observations from the Conference Co-Chairs
Joseph Stiglitz (IPD)
Jan Svejnar (CGEG)
Jose Antonio Ocampo (IPD)
Kalle Moene (Norway)
Sandra Polaski (ILO)
In collaboration with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia SIPA, the Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance at the University of Oslo, the International Labor Organization, and the Roosevelt Institute.
Additionally supported by the Ford Foundation, the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.