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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Michell
 e Baddeley   - Michelle Baddeley
DTSTART:20160217T180000Z
DTEND:20160217T193000Z
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: ‘Convergence\, Divergence and Migration in an Ag
 e of Austerity’\n\nSpeaker\nMichelle Baddeley is Professor in Economics 
 and Finance at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment\, University 
 College London (UCL)\, and before that was Director of Studies in Economic
 s\, Gonville & Caius College/Faculty of Economics\, University of Cambridg
 e. She has a BA (Psychology) and BEcon (Hons 1) from University of Queensl
 and\, and an MPhil/PhD (Economics) from University of Cambridge. She was a
  member of UCL’s Green Economy Policy Commission\, and is an Associate R
 esearcher with the Energy Policy Research Group\, Judge Business School\, 
 University of Cambridge. She has an active interest in public policy and i
 s a member of the  Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (convened by th
 e Department for Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs)\, and an Associate 
 Fellow with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP)\, based at the Univer
 sity of Cambridge. She was a member of the Blackett Review Expert Panel: F
 inTech Futures 2014-15\, led by Professor Sir Mark Walport\, UK Government
  Chief Scientific Adviser. She is on the editorial boards for the Journal 
 of Cybersecurity and the Journal of Economic Psychology. She is also on th
 e advisory board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economi
 cs (SABE).\n \nTalk Overview:\nMichelle Baddeley will discuss a number of 
 relevant issues. With the movement of large numbers of refuges in response
  to conflicts in the Middle East and other parts of the global South\, mig
 ration has become one of the most pressing political\, social and economic
  issues of our time. The crisis is likely to be exacerbated in an age of a
 usterity because the ability for host societies and economies to adapt wil
 l be constrained by limits on government spending. Infrastructure investme
 nt is needed in the very short-term\, including emergency infrastructure t
 o support the immediate consequences of migration e.g. within refugee and 
 migrant camps. Infrastructure investment will also be essential in the med
 ium to long term to ensure that growing migrant populations have proper ac
 cess to social infrastructure including housing\, schools\, hospitals and 
 other medical services. Without this investment\, the prospects for growin
 g inequality\, deprivation and socio-political unrest are likely to be sev
 ere – exacerbating divergences at many levels: between the global South 
 and North\, between Northern and Southern parts of the EU\, and within cou
 ntries depending on how different regions’ populations are affected by m
 igration and/or how much access they have to public finance for infrastruc
 ture investment. On the other hand\, if governments plan properly for grow
 ing pressure on infrastructure\, then the potential for growing disparitie
 s will be lessened and the positive benefits from migration in terms of a 
 growing population of skilled people will be harnessed. This presentation 
 will analyse the likely impacts of large-scale migration on spatial conver
 gence/divergence\, and will present some likely policy implications.\n\nAl
 l are welcome to attend. \nThe seminar series is supported by the Cambridg
 e Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Bus
 iness School.\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa2
 67@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of 
 a query.\n\n
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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