Established in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations ,
the Pacific Council was founded in 1995 to promote better
understanding and action by West Coast and Pacific Rim leaders.

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"We will offer
comparative studies showing how certain countries, such as Ireland, Estonia,
and New Zealand have been able to overcome underdevelopment in the last couple
of decades, while others, like Venezuela, Russia, and Nigeria, endowed with
greater natural resources and benefiting from substantial foreign aid, still
lag behind," noted Mr.

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LOS ANGELES----The 1,290-member, West
Coast-based Pacific Council on International Policy today named
Geoffrey Garrett, Ph. He also has served on the faculties of Oxford
University, Stanford University, and the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. The project examined India -U.

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"Nearly 200 years after the industrial revolution, it is a tragic fact and
demonstrably unnecessary that half the world's population is living in abject
poverty and misery," he said, "and yet there already exists a wealth of both
science and practical examples of the kinds of solutions that would end world
poverty. Secretary of State Warren Christopher."
In addition to assuming the Pacific Council presidency, Garrett
will join the faculty of USC's College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
as professor of international relations.
Ambassador to India, Richard Celeste, and India's former ambassador to
the United States, Abid Hussain.

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degrees from Duke
University. Bryson . Study findings will be released in Washington, D., in late
June.

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Garrett earned a B. Erburu, and our founding president, Abe
Lowenthal," said Council Co-chair John E.-India relations jointly conducted with the Observer Research
Foundation in New Delhi and headed by former Ohio Governor and U.S.

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and Ph.
"The Pacific Council's growth during its first 10 years has been
very encouraging and reflects the vision and commitment of our
founding chairman, Robert F.
The Council's work includes convening workshops and conferences on
significant international issues as well as conducting high-level,
bi -national studies to strengthen relations between the U. The Council will soon release a study of
U .

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The Center will bring together a wide range of scholars, commentators, and
decision-makers from both developed and developing countries to analyze how
entrepreneurship and political decentralization can provide ordinary people
with essential tools to overcome the dire conditions brought about by
political and economic centralization in many countries.
"Globalization issues such as the international outsourcing of
U. jobs often trigger deep anxieties among Americans," said incoming
Pacific Council President Garrett.

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Vargas Llosa, who
has written a new book about resolving poverty in the region , LIBERTY FOR
LATIN AMERICA: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression.

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Vargas Llosa. Vargas Llosa's recent book, Liberty for Latin America, this
important new Center on Global Prosperity boldly seeks to redefine and
redirect public debate toward ending poverty, as it is known today.A.

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Independent Institute Announces New Center on Global Prosperity to Create Enterprise-Based Solutions to Poverty

, The Independent Institute is
launching the new Center on Global Prosperity to examine potential
enterprise-based solutions to end abject poverty in developing countries in
Latin America and around the world. The Center is the result of a $500,000
award from the John Templeton Foundation 's "What Works in Enterprise-Based
Solutions to Poverty" competition.

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He
indicated that the Center 's scope would include case studies examining how and
why central economic planning has widely failed as well as how
enterprise-based solutions may have succeeded in advancing the economic
welfare of the poor.S.

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Building upon the Independent Institute's established record of scholarly
research , publications, and communications work on issues of development,
including Mr.org. "Geoff is ideally
qualified to build on that solid foundation.

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"We are very encouraged by this prestigious award ," said Alvaro Vargas
Llosa, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, and the Center's Director .
"Our new Center on Global Prosperity will conduct case-studies of many
communities in Latin America and other parts of the underdeveloped world that
have actually been able to create wealth by using their entrepreneurial and
innovative spirit to overcome numerous obstacles," said Mr.independent .
Since 2001, Garrett, 46, has been vice provost and dean of
international programs at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA).

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The Independent Institute, a non-partisan,
scholarly public policy organization based in Oakland, California, was
selected from among fifteen invited think tanks as one of three recipients of
the award.
David J.

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" Approximately 10 percent of the present world population (roughly
600 million people) is estimated to exist at or below an equivalent economic
level of $1 per day and approximately half of the world population (3 billion
people ) live at or below an equivalent economic level of $2 per day.D.

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S.C.

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S.A. He is author of "Partisan Politics in the Global Economy"
and has written widely on the global political economy.

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D.S.

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He
replaces the organization's founding president, Abraham Lowenthal,
Ph.
"We are immensely pleased that Geoff has agreed to serve as our
new president and we are confident he will lead the Pacific Council to
the next level of achievement and influence," said Council Co-chair
and former U.
tensions caused by the loss of American jobs in software and
information technology hardware companies to lower-cost firms in
India.

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Theroux, founder and president of the Independent Institute,
noted that the critical role of entrepreneurs has been largely ignored in
analyses of approaches to eliminating poverty in developing countries. The
Council is headquartered on the campus of USC in Los Angeles .

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"
"Geoff Garrett will bring great talent to the Pacific Council and
will take the organization in new and promising directions," said
outgoing Council president Lowenthal.S. and its
international neighbors.

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For more
on the Center on Global Prosperity and The Independent Institute, please go
to: http://www., its new president, effective July 1, 2005. "He brings to
the task first-rate academic credentials, superb leadership skills,
successful institution-building experience, and expertise in the
impact of globalization. "The challenge the Pacific Council
has accepted is to help us understand clearly and respond
constructively to this irreversible trend.

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The results of these studies will be
published as books, and used to form the basis for conferences and major media
programs for academic, policy-making, business, religious, and civic leaders,
as well as the general public .D., who is returning to research and writing and will continue as
professor of international relations at the University of Southern
California (USC).

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OAKLAND, Calif.

West Coast Think Tank Taps Geoffrey Garrett as New President

Prior to that, he held several positions at Yale University,
including director of ethics, politics and economics, director of the
Leitner Program in International Political Economy, and professor of
political science.

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from the Australian
National University, and holds M."

Based in Los Angeles, the Pacific Council on International Policy
is an independent, not -for-profit, international leadership forum
established in 1995 in cooperation with the Council on Foreign
Relations and the University of Southern California. Its 1,290 members
seek to promote better understanding and more effective action by
private and public sector leaders from the western United States and
the Pacific Rim.

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