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Day
2--------------------------------------14 October 2004 |
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08:30
- 09:00 Arrival Tea/Coffee |
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09:00
- 10:30
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 2A:
Export Promotion in Africa
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Parallel Session 2B:
Growth and Poverty Linkages
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Parallel Session 2C:
Savings and Credit Markets in South Africa |
| Chair:
Stephen Hanival,
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies |
Chair:
Barbara Barungi, United Nations
Development Programme |
Chair:
Elias Ayuk,
International Development Research Centre |
Speaker 1:
Export processing zone expansion in an African
country: What are the labour market and gender impacts? Peter Glick, Cornell
University &
Francois Roubard, Dveloppement et Insertion
Internationale
Discussant:
Basil Jones,
International Development Research Centre |
Speaker 1:
The road to pro-poor growth in Zambia. James
Thurlow & Peter Wobst, International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussant: Tom Hertz, American
University |
Speaker 1:
Financial services and the informal economy.
Cally Ardington & Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town
Discussant: James Hodge, University of Cape Town |
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Speaker 2:
The missing links Uganda's economic reforms and
pro-poor growth
Robert Kappel, University of Leipzig
& Susan Steiner, Institute of African Affairs
Discussant: Sarah Ssewanyana,
Economic Policy Research Centre |
Speaker 2: Impact of HIV/AIDS on saving behaviour in South
Africa. SAndréa Freire,
Universit Paris I Sorbonne
Discussant: Issidor
Noumba, University of Yaounde II |
Speaker 2:
Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Micro evidence for macro outcomes.
Neil Rankin, Mns Sderbom & Francis Teal,
Oxford University
Discussant: Vusi Gumede, Office of the
Presidency, SA |
Speaker 3:
Growth without poverty reduction? Examining
micro-macro links in Tanzania.
Anders Danielson, Lund University
Discussant: Andréew Dorward, Imperial College London |
Speaker 3:
Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in
South Africa. David Lam,
University of Michigan, Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town
& Vimal Ranchhod, University of Michigan
Discussant:
Malcolm Keswell, University of Cape Town |
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10:30 - 11:00
Tea |
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11:00 - 12:30
Parallel Sessions |
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Parallel Session 3A:
Challenges to Small Business Development |
Parallel Session 3B :
Constraints on Competitiveness for Agricultural Products |
Parallel Session 3C:
Impact of Trade Reform and Industrial Policy |
| Chair:
Saul Levin, Department of Trade and
Industry, SA |
Chair:
Brent Herbert-Copley,
International Development Research Centre |
Chair:
Lionel October, Department of Trade
and Industry, SA |
Speaker 1:
Small business entrepreneurship in
Dar es salaam, Tanzania:
Exploring problems and
prospects for future development. Rashid M. Mfaume & Wilhelm Leonard,
Mzumbe
University
Discussant: Paul Kalenga,
Tralac |
Speaker 1:
Agricultural sector investment and the role of
public-private
partnership. David J Spielman,
International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussant: Terry Roe,
University of Minnesota |
Speaker 1:
Trade and poverty mainstreaming: Practical
approaches for policy makers and donors.
Helena McLeod, Department for International Development, SA
Discussant: Ravi Kanbur, Cornell
University |
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Speaker 2:
Prospects and challenges of agricultural
technology market linkage under liberalisation in Ghana: Evidence
from a micro-data
Tsegaye Yilma Dessalegn, Ernst Berg & Thomas
Berger, University of
Bonn
Discussant: D K Grover, Punjab Agricultural
University |
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Speaker 2:
Macro-Micro linkages in trade: Does trade liberalisation lead to
improved productivity in South African manufacturing firms.
Imraan Valodia & Myriam Velia, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Discussant: Nigel Gwynne-Evans,
Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
Speaker 3: Missed opportunities and missing markets: Spatio-temporal
arbitrage of rice in Madagascar. Cristine Moser
& Bart Minten, Cornell University
Discussant: Channing Arndt,
Purdue University |
Speaker 2:
Industrial Strategy and local economic
development: manufacturing policy and technological capabilities in
Ekurhulen. Thandi Phele, Simon Roberts & Ian
Steuart, University of the Witwatersrand
Discussant: Lael Bethlehem,
City of Johannesburg |
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12:30 - 13:30
Lunch |
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13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Sessions |
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Parallel Session 4A:
Challenges to Poverty Alleviation in Subsistence Agriculture |
Parallel Session 4B:
Institutions and Social Capital |
Parallel Session 4C:
Wages and Employment: Discrete Labour Market Issues |
| Chair:
Stephen D Younger,
Cornell University |
Chair:
Helena Mcleod, Department for
International Development, SA |
Chair:
Pundy Pillay,
RTI International, SA |
Speaker 1:
Analysis of farmers' preferences for development
intervention programs: A case study of subsistence farmers from
Eastern Ethiopian Highlands. Wagayehu Bekele,
Alemaya University
Discussant: Nick Vink, Stellenbosch
University
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Speaker 1:
Institutional framework, interest rate policy and the Nigerian
manufacturing sub-sector. Babasanmi
Babatope-Obasa National University
of Lesotho & Michael Adebayo Adebiyi, University
of Lagos
Discussant: Tsegaye Yilma Dessalegn,
University of Bonn |
Speakers 1:
Labour migration and households: A reconsideration of the effects
of the social pension on labour supply in South Africa.
Dorrit Posel, James Fairburn & Frances Lund,
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Discussant: Gabriel Tati, University of Swaziland |
Speaker 2:
Alleviating rural poverty through efficient small
holders farming systems in Ethiopia: Relevance of macro policies
with ground realities.
DK Grover & Anteneh Temesgen, Punjab Agricultural
University
Discussant: Farah Pirouz, University
of the Witwatersrand |
Speaker 2:
Multilateral organisations: Instruments for
donors' foreign policy?
Espen Villanger, Christian Michelsen
Institute
Discussant: Neal P. Cohen,
The United States Agency for International Development |
Speaker 2:
Two million net new jobs: A reconsideration of
the rise in employment in South Africa, 1995 2003.
Daniela Casale, Colette Muller & Dorrit
Posel, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Discussant: Sean Archer, University of Cape Town |
Speaker 3:
Infrastructure
privatisation and poverty reduction
in Africa. Afeikhena Jerome, National
Institute for Economic Policy & Ademola
Ariyo, University of Ibadan
Discussant: Anna McCord, University of Cape Town |
Speaker 3:
Why and how does ethnicitiy matter for economic policy making.
Melvin Ayogu, University of
Cape Town
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Speaker 3:
The post-apartheid South African labour market.
Mornéé
Oosthuizen & Haroon Bhorat,
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Louise Fox, World
Bank |
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15:00 - 15:30
Tea |
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15:30 - 17:00 Parallel Sessions |
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Parallel Session 5A:
Approaches to Understanding Poverty in Africa |
Parallel Session 5B:
Trade, Technology and Growth in Africa |
Parallel Session 5C:
Micro-effects of Macro Reform |
| Chair:
Louise Fox, World Bank |
Chair:
Taz Chaponda, National Treasury |
Chair:
John Page, World Bank |
Speaker 1:
Estimating utility consistent poverty lines. Channing Arndt
& Kenneth Simler,
Purdue University
Discussant:
Dorrit Posel, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
Speaker 1:
Has the New Zealand/Australian Closer
Economic Relationship (CER) been
trade widening or deepening?
Ron SAndréey, New Zealand Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Trade & Dirk van Seventer,
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
Discussant:
Simon Roberts, University
of
the Witwatersrand |
Speaker 1:
Capital Flight from South Africa, 1980 to
2000.
Seeraj Mohammed & Kade Finnoff,
University of Massachusetts
Discussant:
Leonid Azarnert, Tel-Aviv University |
Speaker 2:
Agricultural policy, technology and food
security in the African maize sector.
Gran Djurfeldt & Rolf Larsson,
Lund University
Discussant: Paul Hoebink,
South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in
Development |
Speaker 2:
Swaziland: In the pursuit of economic
liberalization and growth. How poverty is reproduced at the
micro-level under changing labour market regimes?
Gabriel Tati, University of Swaziland
Discussant: Helena McLeod,
Department for International Development, SA |
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Speaker 3:
The conjuncture of poverty microsimulation
linked to a macroeconomic forecasting model:
A case study in Senegal
Thierry Latreille, Agence franaise de
Dveloppement
Discussant: David Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute |
Speaker 3:
The global market place: How far can Nigeria go with the present
non-oil product mix? Rosemary N. Okoh,
National Centre for Economic Management and Administration
Discussant: Rolf Larsson, Lund
University |
Speaker 2:
South African Trade Reform since Democracy. Rashad Cassim,
University of the Witwatersrand & Dirk
van Seventer,
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
Discussant: Lawrence Edwards,
University of Cape Town |
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