PREM CONFERENCE 2005 AGENDA
TUESDAY, APRIL 19
8:00 - 9:00 am Networking Breakfast Atrium 9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Address Preston Auditorium RETHINKING GROWTH
Michael Spence, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, former Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chair: Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of PREM Network, World Bank 10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee Break Atrium
10:30 - 12:15 pm MAKING AFRICA GROW Preston Auditorium Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Professor of Economics, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Kwesi Botchwey, Visiting Professor of International Development Economics, Tufts University, former Minister of Finance, Ghana Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister, Mozambique Linah Mohohlo, Governor, Bank of Botswana Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor, Bank of Uganda
Chair: Gobind Nankani, Vice President, Africa Region, World Bank Moderator: Hilary Bowker, Principal, Bowker Media, former Senior European Anchor for CNN 12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch Atrium 1:15 - 2:15 pm PREM Network Address Preston Auditorium WHAT’S OLD AND WHAT’S NEW IN DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of PREM Network, World Bank
Chair: Antonio Estache, Senior Adviser, Infrastructure Vice Presidency, World Bank
PARALLEL SESSIONS
2:30 - 4:15 pm I. FINANCING DEVELOPMENT Preston Auditorium Paul V. Applegarth, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Arlington, VA Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University Sebastian Mallaby, columnist and member of the editorial board, The Washington Post Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria
Moderator: Hilary Bowker, Principal, Bowker Media, former Senior European Anchor for CNN
2:30 - 4:15 pm II. MAKING GROWTH PRO-POOR: CASES AND POLICIES MC 2-800 Tim Besley, Professor of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Sector Manager, East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank Andy McKay, Professor of Economics and International Development, University of Bath Peter Timmer, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
Moderator: Vicki Barker, freelance journalist/researcher PREM Conference 2005
2:30 - 4:15 pm III. INNOVATION AND GROWTH MC 4-800 Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study; Chairman, Science Initiative Group, Princeton, NJ Khushhal Chand Khushiram, Minister of Industry and Medium Enterprises, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs, Mauritius Manuel Trajtenberg, Professor (and former Chairman), Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Chair: John Page, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
2:30 - 4:15 pm IV. GENDER DIVIDEND: GROWTH THROUGH GENDER EQUALITY MC 13-121 Neveen El Tahri, Managing Director, Delta Securities, Egypt Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment, Egypt Julie R. Weeks, Executive Director, the National Women's Business Council, Washington, DC
Chair: Assaad J. Jabre, Vice President, Operations, Acting Executive Vice President, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
4:15 - 4:45 pm Coffee Break Atrium
4:45 - 6:15 pm WHY DO ECONOMIES GROW? Preston Auditorium Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank Alejandro Foxley, Senator and former Minister of Finance, Chile Khushhal Chand Khushiram, Minister of Industry and Medium Enterprises, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs, Mauritius Jeff Madrick, Editor, Challenge Magazine, contributing economics columnist for The New York Times Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment, Egypt
Moderator: Vicki Barker, freelance journalist/researcher
6:15 - 7:30 pm Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres Atrium Shengman Zhang, Managing Director, World Bank
PREM Conference 2005
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 8:00 – 8:30 am Networking Breakfast Atrium
9:00 - 10:30 am EQUITY AND PRO-POOR GROWTH Preston Auditorium Louise Cord, Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction Group, PREM Network, World Bank Francisco Ferreira, Co-Director, World Development Report 2006, Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank Michael Walton, Co-Director, World Development Report 2006, Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank
Discussants: Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Chair: Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of PREM Network, World Bank 10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break Atrium
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:00 - 12:45 pm I. WHAT IS HOLDING BACK GROWTH IN LAGGING REGIONS? Preston Auditorium Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tim Besley, Professor of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics Paulo Haddad, former Minister of Planning, former secretary of planning of Minas Gerais, Brazil Ronnie Hall, Director, Directorate General for Regional Policy, European Union Digvijay Singh, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India
Moderator: Hilary Bowker, Principal, Bowker Media, former Senior European Anchor for CNN
11:00 - 12:45 pm II. FISCAL POLICY, COMPOSITION OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND GROWTH MC 2-800 Andrew Donaldson, Deputy Director General, National Treasury, South Africa Alejandro Foxley, Senator and former Finance Minister, Chile Roberto Perotti, Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Bocconi, Italy Guillermo Perry, Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank Teresa Ter-Minassian, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
11:00 - 12:45 pm III. GROWTH, INVESTMENT CLIMATE AND THE QUALITY OF JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS MC 4-800 Roberto Dañino, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, World Bank Antonio T. Carpio, Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines Ernesto May, PREM Sector Director, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank
Moderator: Vicki Barker, freelance journalist/researcher
11:00 - 12:45 pm IV. SUSTAINING GROWTH BY RIDING THE WAVES MC 13-121 C. Randall Henning, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor, Bank of Uganda
Chair: Alan Gelb, Director, Development Policy, Development Economics Vice President’s Office, World Bank 12:45 - 1:30 pm Lunch ATRIUM
PREM Conference 2005 PARALLEL SESSIONS
1:30 - 3:15 pm I. RISING GIANTS: CHINA, INDIA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY Preston Auditorium Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago, World Bank Nicholas R. Lardy, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Arvind Virmani, Director of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India Yu Yongding, Director General and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Moderator: Vicki Barker, freelance journalist/researcher
1:30 - 3:15 pm II. IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING MICRO CONSTRAINTS TO GROWTH MC 2-800 Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Bill Lewis, the Founding Director of the McKinsey Global Institute Digvijay Singh, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India
Chair: Alan Gelb, Director, Development Policy, Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank 3:15 - 3:30 pm Coffee Break Atrium 3:30 - 4:00 pm Address Preston Auditorium MDGS, AID EFFECTIVENESS AND SCALING UP
François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics, World Bank
4:00 - 6:00 pm GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS: A CONVERSATION WITH THE CHIEF ECONOMISTS Preston Auditorium Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Homi Kharas, Chief Economist and PREM Sector Director, East Asia Region, World Bank Michael Klein, Vice President and Chief Economist, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Mustapha Nabli, Chief Economist, Middle East and Northern Africa Region, World Bank Pradeep Mitra, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank John Page, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Guillermo Perry, Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Moderator: Hilary Bowker, Principal, Bowker Media, former Senior European Anchor for CNN
6:00 - 6:30 pm CONCLUDING REMARKS Preston Auditorium François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics, World Bank Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of PREM Network, World Bank