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Book launch and lecture 'Why Nations Fail? The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty'
12 Jan 2013

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

In collaboration with the

Lebanese Center for Policy Studies

Cordially invites you to a book launch and lecture

"Why Nations Fail? The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty"


by Professor James A. Robinson
Harvard University


Monday, January 14, 2013 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
West Hall - Auditorium A


James A. Robinson, a political scientist and an economist, is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a world renowned expert on Latin America and Africa, and he is currently conducting research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Haiti and Colombia where he has taught for many years during the summer at the University of the Andes in Bogota.