International Studies Program's
Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series

The International Studies Program is presenting the 4th Annual Lecture Series by Distinguished Visiting Professor Richard Bird. This year's lecture will be "Asymmetric Decentralization: Glue or Solvent?" The lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 26 at 12:00 noon in the Manners Room on the 7th floor of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration. Refreshments with Hors d'ouerves will be provided. Please find attached the paper on which the presentation is based.

Dr. Bird has held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, Columbia University, Monash University (Australia), and the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor and Director of the International Tax Program at Rotman School of Management. He has served as a senior economic advisor for the World Bank, IMF, and a large number of governments around the world. In addition, Prof. Bird has authored numerous articles and books on tax policy, tax administration and intergovernmental finance reform issues, including: Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), with F. Vaillancourt, Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transitional Economics with R. Ebel, and C. Wallich, (World Bank, 1995), Improving Tax Administration in Developing Countries, with M. Casanegra de Jantscher, (International Monetary Fund, 1992)