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Tina Rosenberg is foreign-policy
editorial writer for the New York Times, currently working
in the Mexico City bureau. She is the author of Children of
Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America and The
Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism.
Synopsis
Globalization was supposed to both
increase the planet's wealth and spread it to the
world's poor. In this talk, Rosenberg looks at whether
it is working. She argues that globalization is not
just good for the poor, it is essential -- no country
has ever gotten wealthy over the long term without
international trade. But, she says, the
antiglobalization protesters are right as well: no
nation has ever developed over the long run under the
rules being imposed on poor countries by those who
control globalization today. Those rules are written by
and for powerful nations and powerful interests within
those nations, mainly the agribusiness, pharmaceutical
and financial services industries. Globalization is
being sabotaged by its own inequities. Unless the
system becomes fairer for the world's have-nots, it
will be ultimately destroyed by the backlash. Rosenberg
sets out new rules to make globalization work for the
world's poor.
Tina Rosenberg has extensive
experience in Latin America. Fluent in Spanish and
having lived in Nicaragua from 1985-1987, Chile from
1987 - 1990, and currently in Mexico City, she is well
prepared to speak on the issues facing that part of the
world, and the concomitant challenges and opportunities
afforded by Globalization. Her books reveal an
impressive ability to get close to the people at many
different levels of society, with intense in-depth
interviews of political leaders, revolutionaries,
business leaders, persons lost in the sea of poverty
and even those tied to the drug cartels and world of
violence. Rosenberg has lived close to those who have
been impacted by world-shaking agreements such as
NAFTA, both positively and negatively. She speaks with
experience, wisdom, and compassion, as she seeks ways
to have all persons benefit from the spread and growth
of the free-market economy.
Rosenberg has been honored as winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the
National Book Award, the Helen Bernstein Award and is a former
MacArthur Fellow. She also contributes to: The New Yorker,
The New York Times magazine, Foreign Affairs,
Rolling Stone, The New Republic and other publications.
Rosenberg received her Bachelor's Degree in Speech and Master's
Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. |
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