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13:30
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Plenary Session |
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Keynote Address:
Strategies for "pro-poor growth" pro-poor, pro-growth or both?
(presentation)
John Page, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Question and Comments
Chair:
Haroon Bhorat, Development Policy
Research Unit, University of Cape Town |
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15:00 - 15:30 Tea |
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15:30
- 17:00
Parallel Sessions |
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Guidelines for presenters and
discussants
Parallel Sessions: 2 speakers per session: 20 minutes per speaker,10
minutes per discussant and 30 minutes for general discussion.
3 speakers per session: 20 minutes per speaker, 5 minutes per
discussant and 15 minutes for general discussion |
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Parallel Session 1A:
Challenges to Improved Health in Africa
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Parallel Session 1B:
Growth and Poverty Linkages
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Parallel Session 1C Macroeconomic Policy
and Economic Growth in
South Africa
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| Chair:
Lebo Lehutso-Phooko, South African
Reserve Bank |
Chair:
Alan Hirsch, Office of the
Presidency, SA |
Chair:
Ravi Kanbur,
Cornell University |
Speaker 1:
Changes in HIV/AIDS knowledge and
testing behavior in Africa:
How much and for whom?
Peter Glick & David E. Sahn,
Cornell University
Discussant: SAndréa Freire,
Universit Paris I Sorbonne |
Speaker 1:
Macroeconomic growth, sectorial quality of growth
and poverty in developing countries: Measure and application to
Burkina Faso.
Boccanfuso Dorothe, Universit de
Sherbrooke & Tambi Samuel Kabore,
Universit de Ouagadougou
Discussant: Muqtada Mohamed,
International Labour Organisation |
Speaker 1:
Budget reform as a means to strengthen the link between macro and
micro policies. Taz Chaponda, Neil
Cole, Mickie Schoch & Chris Gadsden
National Treasury
Discussant:
Elias Ayuk,
International Development Research Centre |
Speaker 2:
Infant mortality in Uganda: Determinants, trends
and the millennium development goals. Sarah Ssewanyana,
Economic Policy Research Centre
& Stephen Younger, Cornell University
Discussant: Kym Anderson, World
Bank, Centre for Economic & Policy Research and University of Adelaide |
Speaker 2:
Growth and redistribution effects of poverty
changes in Cameroon.
Francis Baye, University of Yaound II
Discussant: Thierry Latrielle
Agence
franaise de Dveloppement |
Speaker 2:
Inequality
in South Africa: Nature, causes and responses.
Stephen Gelb, The Edge Institute
Discussant: Geeta Kingdon, Oxford University |
Speaker 3:
Are wealthier nations healthier nations? A panel
data approach to the determination of human development in Africa.
Issidor Noumba, University of Yaound
II
Discussant:
David Lam, University of Michigan |
Speaker 3:
Modelling pro-poor agricultural growth strategies in Malawi:
Lessons
for policy and analysis. Andréew Dorward, Jamie
Morrison, Imperial College London,
Peter Wobst, Hans Lofgren & Hardwick Tchale,
University of Bonn
& and
International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussant:
Hildegunn Stokke,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Speaker 3:
How responsive is capital formation to its
user cost?
An exploration of corporate tax effects. Stephen F. Koch,
University of Pretoria & Albert de Wet,
National Treasury
Discussant: Paul
Dunne, University of the West of
England |
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17:00 - 18:00
The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics (KIDS Panel: An Assessment
Julian May,
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chair:
Haroon Bhorat, Development Policy
Research Unit, University of Cape Town |
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