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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
Michele Wucker
President
Expertise: Argentina; Citizenship; Competitiveness; Dominican Republic; Economic Development; Economic Impact of Immigration Policy; European Immigration Policy; Global Economy; Haiti; Immigration; Civic Participation; Immigration and National Security; International Debt and Capital Markets; Noncitizen Voting Rights; Peacebuilding; Migrant Worker Remittances; Globalization, Overseas Voting Rights; Latin American Economies, Politics, and Culture; Transnational Civil Society
Michele Wucker, President of the World Policy Institute, is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs 2006/paperback 2007; a Washington Post Book World "Best Nonfiction of 2006" Selection) and Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999). She received a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing global views of citizenship. She is a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a member of the 2009-10 American Council on Germany Young Leaders Study Group on the Future of Europe. She was a 2008 Progressive Womens Voices honoree of the Womens Media Center.
Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, the global economy, and Latin American politics.
Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, she has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, America Economia, The Guardian, Newsday, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Valor Economico, Tikkun, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal. Ms. Wucker has been a frequent source for major U.S. and international media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Public Radio International and many others. She is a graduate of Rice University and of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
She is a member of the Authors Guild, Council on Foreign Relations, and PEN, and an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.
Education:
MA, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
BA, Rice University (French and policy studies)
Languages:
Spanish (fluent)
French, Portuguese, Haitian Kreyol (conversation)
German (reading nd basic conversation)
Contact: wucker@worldpolicy.org
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola Hill and Wang, 1999/2000
A marvelous immersion experience in the clash and conciliation of cultures on a small, embattled island next door.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Richly textured… A powerful cultural analysis.” Kirkus Reviews
VIDEO & AUDIO
WorldFocus Radio interview on Reverse Brain Drain Tuesday, February 3, 2009. PBS Worldfocus January 29, 2009 on Global Economic Crisis and Social Unrest:
Carnegie Council Global Policy Innovations January 22, 2009 on Climate Change and Migration risks:
"Migration and Interdependence," comments from September 9-10, 2007 Interdependence Day Summit, Mexico City. Video. On "economics and civil society" from the same conference - VideoOctober 4, 2007.
SELECTED ARTICLES
2007 Seville Atlantic Conference Report " Migration and Migrant Integration in the Atlantic Region " Chicago Council on Global Affairs, October 2007.
A Safe Haven in New Haven. The New York Times. April 15,2007.
Borderline Pandering." CommentIsFree.com April 11, 2007
"Family Second." The New York Times. February 28, 2007:
Fixing the Border --Without A Wall" World Policy Journal. Winter 2006-07:
Political Power in the Perpetual Migration Machine. World Policy Journal, Fall 2004.
Remittances: the Perpetual Migration Machine. World Policy Journal, Summer 2004.
Haiti Is Not Alone in this Crisis. Washington Post Outlook, March 7, 2004.
Civics Lessons from Immigrants. U.S. immigrants find ways to contribute to society. The American Prospect, July 2003.
Searching for Argentina's Silver Lining. The lessons of Argentina's financial collapse. World Policy Journal, Winter 2002/2003.
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