Topic on January 26: A growing global problem: Illicit financial flows and the growth of developing countries with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Magdalene Silberberger.
The lecture series will take place every Tuesday from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm and will be delivered in English and in German depending on the speaker. You can join the lecture series via Zoom: https://www.uni-wh.de/money
The programme for this lecture is in English:
Tax evasion, corruption and criminal activity: we have all heard about these issues. However, their impact on growth and economic stability often remains unknown. What can be done on an international level to tackle Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs)?
After last week's lecture on offshore finance by Dr Binder, we are proud to welcome Prof Dr Magdalene Silberberger on Tuesday 26 January from 6 to 7:30 pm in a session on Illicit Financial Flows. In the lecture the systemic importance and complexity of IFFs and their harmful effects on economic, social and financial stability will be explored. Silberberger’s empirical analysis shows how IFFs jeopardize sustainable growth especially in developing countries. Furthermore, the question how institutions and international cooperation could fight these problems will be discussed.
Prof Dr Magdalene Silberberger is an active member of the Institute for Social and Institutional Change (ISIC). Since 2015 she has been Junior Professor of development economics at the UW/H. She worked with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and at the chair for International Business Relations at the Ruhr-University Bochum as well as at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva. Her research emphasises the economic integration of developing countries and relations between regulation, trade and economic growth.
About the lecture series
Whether the constitutional brake on debt, cryptocurrencies or the role of central banks in global climate change – there is no shortage of controversial topics that are of importance to our society as a whole. At the same time, it is difficult to assess and interpret this plethora of different challenges. The public digital lecture series “Money, Power and Social Transformation” wants to provide different perspectives on the interaction and relationship between money, power and society. For this purpose, Prof. Dr. Joscha Wullweber, Professor for Political Economy and Global Governance of Witten/Herdecke University (UW/H) has invited renowned experts in the area of economics, politics and research to speak at the lectures.
Speakers are:
Die Universität Witten/Herdecke ist durch das NRW-Wissenschaftsministerium staatlich anerkannt und wird – sowohl als Institution wie auch für ihre einzelnen Studiengänge – regelmäßig akkreditiert durch: