[TimorLesteStudies] Emilia Pires speaking at One Just World: Who Should Get What and Why? Financing Economic Justice for the World’s Poor

[Bu Wilson]

As a feature event of the Sustainable Living Festival,One Just World  presents... Who Should Get What and Why?Financing Economic Justice for the World’s  Poor


 FEATURING: - The Hon Emilia Pires – Minister for Planning and Finance,  East Timor - Mary Ellen Iskenderian – President & CEO, Women’s World  Banking, New York - Ross Buckley – Professor of International Finance  Law, University of NSW - Andrew Hewett – CEO, Oxfam Australia - Liz  Jackson (Moderator) – Reporter, Four Corners, ABCTV - Margaret Abernethy  (Welcome) – Professor & Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics,  University of Melbourne While world poverty has decreased over recent years, we still live in a  world where economic justice has not been achieved. Almost two thirds of  the world's people live without the security of knowing that they can  earn enough to sustain themselves and their families. This means they are unable to do the things we take for granted - like  sending their kids to school, being able to go to a doctor, having a  job, or even having access to land to grow food. The poorest of the poor  (just under 1 billion) don't even know where their next meal is coming  from. For poor women, achieving economic justice affects their daily lives.  Even when included in the paid workforce, women face obstacles in  obtaining fair pay and safe working conditions. While people living in  poverty bear the least responsibility for creating many of the world’s  problems – financial crises, food crises, corruption, natural disasters  and climate change – these issues have a disproportionate impact on  them. When you’re desperately poor, any impact at all can be a matter of  life or death. How do we go about financing economic justice? Who takes the lead? Does  the responsibility for economic justice lie with developing countries  themselves? What about wealthy countries and their corporations? Or, as  argued by proponents of a 'Robin Hood' tax, should the global banking  sector finance economic justice? “There cannot be effective development without economic justice” Otaviano Canuto, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic  Management Network (PREM), World Bank  DATE: Tuesday 22 February 2011 TIME: 6.00 to 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)  VENUE: BMW Edge, Federation Square FREE ENTRY  PLEASE RSVP AT  www.onejustworld.com.au    Dr Thomas Davis  School of Social and Political Sciences  University of Melbourne  Australia     Ph + 61 3 8344 0157  Fax + 61 3 8344 7906  tdavis at unimelb.edu.au    Dr Bu V.E. Wilson T: Australia +61  0  407 087 086 T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011 E: buvewilson at gmail.com     
 FEATURING: - The Hon Emilia Pires – Minister for Planning and Finance,  East Timor - Mary Ellen Iskenderian – President & CEO, Women’s World  Banking, New York - Ross Buckley – Professor of International Finance  Law, University of NSW - Andrew Hewett – CEO, Oxfam Australia - Liz  Jackson (Moderator) – Reporter, Four Corners, ABCTV - Margaret Abernethy  (Welcome) – Professor & Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics,  University of Melbourne While world poverty has decreased over recent years, we still live in a  world where economic justice has not been achieved. Almost two thirds of  the world's people live without the security of knowing that they can  earn enough to sustain themselves and their families. This means they are unable to do the things we take for granted - like  sending their kids to school, being able to go to a doctor, having a  job, or even having access to land to grow food. The poorest of the poor  (just under 1 billion) don't even know where their next meal is coming  from. For poor women, achieving economic justice affects their daily lives.  Even when included in the paid workforce, women face obstacles in  obtaining fair pay and safe working conditions. While people living in  poverty bear the least responsibility for creating many of the world’s  problems – financial crises, food crises, corruption, natural disasters  and climate change – these issues have a disproportionate impact on  them. When you’re desperately poor, any impact at all can be a matter of  life or death. How do we go about financing economic justice? Who takes the lead? Does  the responsibility for economic justice lie with developing countries  themselves? What about wealthy countries and their corporations? Or, as  argued by proponents of a 'Robin Hood' tax, should the global banking  sector finance economic justice? 

“There cannot be effective development without economic justice” Otaviano Canuto, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic  Management Network (PREM), World Bank

DATE: Tuesday 22 February 2011 TIME: 6.00 to 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)  VENUE: BMW Edge, Federation Square FREE ENTRY  PLEASE RSVP AT  www.onejustworld.com.au    


Dr Thomas Davis
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Melbourne  Australia
Ph + 61 3 8344 0157
Fax + 61 3 8344 7906  
tdavis at unimelb.edu.au    


Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
T: Australia +61  0  407 087 086
T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011
E: buvewilson at gmail.com





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