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Winner Take All: The Race for the World's Resources

Department of Geography and Environment public lecture


Dambisa Moyo discusses the increasingly heated competition for the world's water and land, and the likely geopolitical fallout of China's biggest commodity rush in history. Are we heading for large-scale conflict and what can governments do to avoid it?

Dambisa Moyo author of Dead Aid and How the West Was Lost; she has been an economist at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs and was chosen as Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009.

This event celebrates the publication of her new book 'Winner Take All: The Race for the World's Resources'.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #lseMoyo


Speaker(s):

Dambisa Moyo | talks
Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge | talks

 

Date and Time:

25 June 2012 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Old Theatre, Old Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE


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Organised by:

London School of Economics & Political Science
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Tickets:

Free

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Members of the public, LSE staff, students and alumni can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on the event weblisting after 10pm on Monday 18 June till at least 12noon on Tuesday 19 June. If at 12noon we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

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