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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2003 : The New Reform Agenda
No full textThe Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics seeks to expand the flow of ideas
among development policy researchers, academics, and
practitioners from around the world. It is a premier forum
for World Bank and other experts to exchange ideas,
challenge one another's findings, and expand
theoretical and practical knowledge of development. Each
year the topics selected for the conference represent new
matters of concern or areas that will benefit from a review
of what we know and from the identification of what still
needs to be explored and expanded. This year's
conference, held at the World Bank on April 29-30, 2002,
addressed four themes: trade and poverty, Africa's
future in terms of industrial and/or agricultural
development, education and empowerment, and investment
climate and productivity, with Andrew Berg and Anne Krueger,
Paul Collier, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio
Lopez-De-Silanes, and Andrei Schleifer, Ravi Kanbur, Carmen
M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, L. Alan Winters, and
Adrian Wood. World Bank President James D. wolfensohn, Chief
Economist Nicholas Stern, and John B. Taylor also addressed
the conference
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001/2002
No full textThe Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics is a forum for discussion, and debate
of important policy issues facing developing countries. This
report for 2001-2002 focuses on two main themes, based on
papers presented, and discussions that followed: 1)
globalization and inequality, drawing on historical trends,
through the human capital nexus, and the role of foreign
trade and investment, to the geographic and international
inequalities of globalization, and how the impact of
technological change affected the developing world; and, 2)
health and development, focused on the role of
nongovernmental organizations in the provision of health
care, with a special look at the patent policy proposal for
global diseases. Health, income, and economic development
are emphasized, so as to highlight the world inequality, and
the growing concerns on the rising longevity
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000
Full text linkThese are the proceedings of the Annual
World Bank Conference on Development Economics, which
gathers the global perspective of scholars, and
practitioners of development policy from academic life,
government, and the private sector. The selected topics seek
to include new areas of concern, and current research, as
well as areas believed to benefit from exposure to recent
knowledge, and experience. This year's conference
focused on new development thinking, crises and recovery,
corporate governance and restructuring, and, social
security, public and private savings. The opening address
outlines challenges for development, that include the
intransigence of poverty in Africa, and ways to establish
public-private partnerships at the country, and global
levels, while the keynote address identifies equilibrium,
and change as the focus of development economics: long-term
sustainable growth requires development of a consensus
behind the reform policies. Discussions varied from crises
and recovery, through perspectives on the recent history of
transition economies, to arguments on the possibilities of
poverty reduction on a grand scale. Other topics include the
exploration of development strategies, revision of the role
of aid in providing finance, changing policies, and
knowledge transfer, and, how to coordinate development problems
Book review on Stern, Nicholas: Why are we waiting?: the logic, urgency and promise of tackling climate change.
No full textBook review on Stern, Nicholas: Why are we waiting?: the logic, urgency and promise of tackling climate change.JRC.D.6 - Knowledge for Sustainable Development and Food Securit
Cinquante ans de développement économique: bilan et expériences.
No full textCollier Paul, Dollar David, Stern Nicholas. Cinquante ans de développement économique : bilan et expériences. In: Revue d'économie du développement, 9e année N°1-2, 2001. Penser le développement au tournant du millénaire. Sélection des Actes. Conférence ABCDE – Europe. Paris, 26-28 juin 2000. pp. 23-64
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Europe 2003 : Toward Pro-Poor Policies--Aid, Institutions, and Globalization
No full textThe Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics(ABCDE)-Europe 2003 presents selected
papers from the fourth annual ABCDE-Europe meetings, held
June 24-26, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. More than 350 eminent
scholars and practitioners from 50 countries met to
deliberate on the theme 'Towards Pro-Poor
Policies'. The papers from sessions on aid,
institutions, and globalization provide both a general
overview of links between poverty, inequality, and growth,
and address specific topics such as the Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries Initiative for debt reduction. All consider
the role of policies and institutions in development and
poverty reduction. This volume contains an overview by
Bertil Tungodden, Ivar Kolstad, and Nicholas Stern; papers
on aid by Nicholas Stern, David Roland-Holst and Finn Tarp,
Stephan Klasen, Lisa Chauvet and Patrick Guillaumont, and
Jean-Pierre Cling, Mireille Razafindrakoto, and Fran?s
Roubaud; papers on institutions by Mariano Tommasi, Mushtaq
Khan, David Dunham, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff,
Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz; and papers on globalization
by Jomo Sundaram, John Dunning, Antonio Spilimbergo, Juan
Luis Londoo, and Miguel Szly, Andre Solimano, and Oded Stark
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