Two weeks after the violent quake and tsunami struck Japan, the University community is discussing what comes next.
The University’s Stephenson Disaster Management Institute co-hosted a panel discussion in Washington D.C. on Thursday to discuss the economic impacts and future paths that face Japan in recovery.
The panel was part of the institute’s collaborative speaking series with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“We felt it to be of the utmost importance to begin a discussion immediately regarding the recovery situation taking place in Japan,” said Col. Joseph Booth, executive director of the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute.
The three-person panel, comprised of academics and economic analysts from various institutes, spent much of the meeting discussing what comes next for the Japanese economy.
“The economic dislocation that is normally confined to a certain area has been propagated throughout the electrical grid like to Tokyo,” said Marcus Noland, deputy director and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, a private nonprofit research organization. “I am confident once the problems with the electrical grid and nuclear issues are resolved we will see a forceful rebuilding.”
 
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