PREM Conference 2006

PREM Conference 2006: Microeconomic and Institutional Foundations of Growth DRAFT AGENDA Updated 4/12/06 Plenary Breakout Time Session Speakers TUESDAY, April 25 8:00– 9:00am Registration and Networking Breakfast 9:00 – 9:15am Opening Remarks To be confirmed

9:15 - 10:30am Keynote Address: Edward Prescott, W.P. Carey Chaired What Must a Country Do to Become Rich? Professor, Arizona State University, and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Chair: Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, PREM, World Bank 10:30 – 10:45am Coffee Break 10:45 – 12:15pm Governance and Growth in Africa Panelists: Robert Bates, Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Director of CSAE, St Antony's, UK Nicolas van de Walle, Associate Dean for International Studies, Cornell University Ishmael Yamson, Chairman, Ishmael Yamson & Associates, Ghana Kerfalla Yansane, Vice-Chair, African Economic Research Consortium Chair: Gobind Nankani, Regional Vice- President, Africa, World Bank Organizers: Sanjay Pradhan/Tuan Minh Le 12:15 – 1:00pm Jit Gill Memorial Lecture in Recognition of Jana Dubovcova, District Court Chief Outstanding Public Service Justice, Slovak Republic Joseph Rugumyamheto, former Permanent Secretary, Tanzania Samuel Paul, Chairman of the Board, Public Affairs Committee, India Organizer: Tuan Minh Le 1:00 – 1:45pm Lunch 1:45 -3:15pm I. Moving Out of Poverty Traps: From Panelists: Vicious to Virtuous Poverty Circles Aart C. Kraay, Lead Economist, BREAKOUTS Development Economics, World Bank Oded Galor, Professor of Economics, Director, Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth, Brown University Luis Serven, Research Manager, Development Economics, Development Research Group, World Bank Chair: Peter Hakim, President, Inter American Dialogue Organizer: J. Humberto Lopez II. Urban Economics and Growth Panelists: Jan Brueckner, Professor of Economics, University of California Stephen Sheppard, Professor of Public Affairs, Williams College 1 Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard University Chair: Homi Kharas, Chief Economist and Sector Director, East Asia PREM, World Bank Organizer: Robert Buckley III. Is the Knowledge Economy an Panelists: Opportunity for Africa? Yeboah Sraha, Director, Affiliated Computer Systems, Ghana Kevin Mutiso, Director, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya Osita Ogbu, Economic Adviser to the President and Chief Executive; The Presidency, National Planning Commission, Nigeria David Kaplan, Allan Gray Professor of Business Government Relations, University of Cape Town, South Africa Chair: Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Economics, World Bank Organizer: Vandana Chandra IV. Social Welfare Models and Globalization Panelists: Andre Sapir, Senior Fellow at Bruegel; AS Professor of Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Peter Lanjouw, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank Chair: Mustapha Nabli, Chief Economist and Sector Director, Middle East and North Africa Region, Social and Economic Development Group, World Bank Organizer: Antonio Estache V. What is the Right Fiscal Policy for Growth? Panelists: Peter Heller, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund Pierre-Richard Agenor, Professor, University of Manchester Ricardo Martner, Chief, Budgetary Policies and Public Management, ECLAC, UN Chair: Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank Organizer: Blanca Moreno-Dodson 3:15 – 3:30pm Coffee Break 3:30 – 4:30pm Address: Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head The Art of Policy Making in Development: of Network, PREM How to Engineer Growth? Chair: Marianne Fay, Lead Economist, Finance, Private Sector & Infrastructure, World Bank 4:30 – 4:45pm Coffee Break 4:45 – 6:15pm I. Making Aid More Effective Through Panelists: Budget Support Steve Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for BREAKOUTS Global Development Nicolas van de Walle, Associate Dean for International Studies, Cornell University Andrew Lawson, Head, Centre for Aid &

2 Public Expenditure, Overseas Development Institute, UK Chair: Tom Scholar, Executive Director, United Kingdom, World Bank Organizers: Stefan Koeberle/Jan Walliser

II. Shaping Policies for Discovery and Panelists: Innovation Stephen Parente, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois Manuel Trajtenberg, Professor of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Howard Pack, Professor of Business and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Mustapha Nabli, Chief Economist and Sector Director, Middle East and North Africa, Social & Economic Development, World Bank Organizers: Miria Pigato/Itzhak Goldberg III. The Impact of International Migration Panelists: and Remittances Riccardo Faini, Professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics, New York University Ralph Chami, Division Chief, Middle Eastern Division, IMF Institute Chair: Uri Dadush, Director, Trade Department, World Bank Organizer: Dilip Ratha IV. Creative Destruction for Productivity, Panelists: Growth, and Job Creation Philip Aghion, Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University Andre Sapir, Senior Fellow at Bruegel; AS Professor of Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Chair: Pradeep Mitra, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Organizer: Pradeep Mitra, Stefano Scarpetta, Brian Pinto

V. Internal Brain Drain: Why Gender Panelists: Inclusion Matters for Growth Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Social Cohesion and Parity, France Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investments, Egypt Gary S. Becker, 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Chair: to be determined Organizer: Nadereh Chamlou

6:15 – 7:15pm Reception

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WEDNESDAY, April 26

8:00 – 9:00am Networking Breakfast 9:00 – 9:45am Address: Towards New Strategies in Applied Research on Growth Francois Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics, World Bank 9:45 – 10:00am Coffee Break 10:00 – 11:30am I. Building Accountability for Shared Growth Panelists: Ashraf Ghani, former Minister of Finance, BREAKOUTS Afghanistan James Robinson, Professor of Government,

Harvard University

Tim Besley, Professor of Economics and Political Science; London School of Economics and Political Science Chair: Karl Jackson, Adviser to the President, World Bank Organizers: Brian Levy / Louise Cord II. Beyond Getting Prices Right: Is There Panelists: Room for Industrial Policy? Florence Kata, Executive Director, Uganda Export Promotion Board, Uganda Naushad Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall, India

Howard Pack, Professor of Business and

Public Policy, Economics and Management, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Alan Gelb, Director, Development Economics, Development Policy, World Bank Organizers: Vandana Chandra/ Faezeh Foroutan

III. What are the Major Advances in Growth Panelists: Theory since Solow? Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Applied Economics, MIT University Philippe Aghion, Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Edward Prescott, W.P. Carey Chaired Professor, Arizona State University, and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Chair: Michael Spence, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Organizer: Gilles Bauche IV. Who Benefits From Migration? Panelists: Dominique Gross, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada Gordon Hanson, Professor of Economics,

University of California Guillermina Jasso, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University 4 Chair: Alan Winters, Director, Development Research Group, World Bank Organizers: Pierella Paci/Andrew Morrison V. What Do We Know About Conditional Panelists: Cash Transfers? Santiago Levy, former Minister of Social Assistance, Mexico Yadigar Gokalp, Project Director, CCT program, Turkey Chair: Paul Gertler, Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank Organizers: Barbara Bruns/Paul Gertler

VI. Unlocking Wealth of the Poor Panelists: S. Sivakumar, CEO, Agribusiness, ITC, India K. Raju, Principal Secretary, Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India David Varela, Country Manager, Venezuela, World Bank Augusta Molnar, Director, Community and Markets Program, Rights and Resources Group Chair: (tbc) Organizers: Deepa Narayan/ Amit Mukherjee 11:30 – 11:45pm Coffee Break 11:45 – 1:15pm I. Drugs, Security and Development Panelists: David Mansfield, Consultant, South Asia BREAKOUTS Region, World Bank Moíses Naím, Editor-In-Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine Peter Reuter, Professor, Public Policy, University of Maryland Rodrigo Soares, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Chair: Sarah Cliffe, Manager, Operations Policy & Country Services, World Bank Organizers: Philip Keefer/William Byrd II. Performance-based Incentives for Better Panelists: Education Richard J. Murnane, Professor of Education and Society, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Emiliana Vegas, Education Economist, Latin American and Caribbean Region, Education Sector, World Bank Jishnu Das, Economist, Development Economics, Research Group, World Bank Rema Hanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, New York University Chair: Emmanuel Y. Jimenez, Director, WDR 2007, Sector Director, East Asia Region, Human Development Sector Dept., World Bank Organizer: F. Halsey Rogers

5 III. Is African Growth Creating “Good Jobs”? Panelists: M. Louise Fox, Lead Specialist, Africa Region, PREM Front Office, World Bank Francis Teal, Professor of Economics, Oxford University Alan Gelb, Director, Development Policy, World Bank Chair: Eckhard Karl Deutscher, Executive Director, Germany, World Bank Organizer: Amy Luinstra

IV. The Future of Trade after DOHA: What’s Panelists: in it for Developing Countries? Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, Columbia University Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics Patrick Low, Director, Development and Economic Research, WTO Chair: to be confirmed Organizer: John Panzer V. Microeconomic Regulation and Growth Panelists: Meghana Ayyagari, Professor, International Business Department, George Washington University Leora Klapper, Senior Economist, Development Economics, World Bank Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank Fabio Schiantarelli, Professor of Economics, Boston College Organizers: Asli Demirguc-Kunt /Luis Serven VI. Field Experiments to Investigate Panelists: Institutional Design and Impact Rachel Glennester, Executive Director, Poverty Action Lab, MIT Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Ben Olken, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University Chair: Homi Kharas, Chief Economist and Sector Director, East Asia Region, PREM Sector Department, World Bank Organizer: Bob Chase 1:15 -2:00pm Lunch 2:00 –3:30pm Emerging Economies, Growth and Global Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO Managing Financial Markets: The Changing Paradigm Director, CEO of Harvard Management Company Discussants: Homi Kharas, Chief Economist and Sector Director, East Asia Region, PREM Sector Department, World Bank (tbc) John Page, Chief Economist, Africa Region, Office of the Chief Economist, World Bank (tbc) Mustapha Nabli, Chief Economist and Sector Director, Middle East and North Africa Region, Social and Economic

6 Development Group, World Bank (tbc) Chair: Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, PREM, World Bank

3:30 – 4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00 – 5:30pm The Case for Open Economy Industrial Robert Wade, Professor of Political Policy Economy and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science Panelists: Alan Gelb, Director , Development Policy, World Bank William Maloney, Lead Economist, Latin American and Caribbean, World Bank Pradeep Mitra, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Chair: Francois Bourguignon, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Development Economics, World Bank

5:30 – 6:00pm Concluding Remarks Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, PREM, World Bank