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Day
3---------------------------------------15 October 2004 |
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08:30
- 9:00 Arrival Tea/Coffee |
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09:00 - 10:30
Final Plenary Session |
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Keynote Address
From Heaven to Hell: Two American Empires in the Developing World.
Alice Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel Discussion Chair:
Stephen Hanival,
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
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10:30 - 11:00 TEA |
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11:00 - 12:30 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 6A:
Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa
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Parallel Session 6B:
Rural Livelihood Strategies
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Parallel Session 6C: Unemployment Dynamics in South Africa |
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Mary Metcalfe,
Gauteng Provincial Government |
Chair:
Yasmin Dada-Jones, Office of the
Presidency, SA |
Chair:
John Knight, University of Oxford |
Speaker1:
Youth labour markets in Africa.
Cecil Mlatsheni & Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Sten Dieden, Gteborg University |
Speaker 1:
The Demand for education for orphans in Zimbabwe.
Craig Gundersen,
Iowa State University, Thomas Kelly,
Economic Consultant, Kyle Jemison,
Catholic Relief Services
Discussant: Carol Nuga Deliwe,
Department of Education |
Speakers 1:
The mystery of South Africas ghost workers in
1996: measurement and mismeasurement in the manufacturing census,
population census and October Household Surveys. Martin Wittenberg,
University of Cape Town
Discussant: Charles Meth, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
Speaker 2:
Geography as Destiny: Considering the spatial
dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa.
Ronelle Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Sarel van der Walt & Derek Yu,
Stellenbosch University
Discussant: James Thurlow,
International Food Policy Research Institute |
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Speakers 2:
The dynamics of job search and the
microfoundations of unemployment: Evidence from Duncan village.
David Fryer, Rhodes University
Discussant: Daniela Casale, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
Speaker 3:
Genocide and land scarcity: Can Rwandan rural households manage?
Marijke Verpoorten & Lode Berlage, University of Leuven
Discussant: Afeikhena Jerome, National
Institute for Economic Policy |
Speaker 2:
Implications of genetically modified food
technology policies for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kym Anderson, World Bank, Centre for
Economic and
University of Adelaide & Lee Ann Jackson,
WTO Secretariat
Discussant: Bart Minten, Cornell University |
Speaker 3:
Have minimum wages benefited South Africas
domestic service workers?
Tom Hertz, American University
Discussant: Stephen Younger, Cornell
University |
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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 7A:
Well-Being and Poverty |
Parallel Session 7B:
Trade and Financial Flows |
Parallel Session 7C:
Financing and Development |
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Bongi Mpondo, Gauteng
Legislature
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Chair:
Susan Joekes,
International Development Research Centre
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Chair:
Anthony Black,
University of Cape Town |
Speaker 1:
Well-Being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty in
South Africa? Geeta Kingdon & John Knight,
Oxford University
Discussant: Murray Leibbrandt,
University
of Cape Town |
Speaker 1:
Trade liberalisation and factor returns in South Africa, 1988-2002.
Lawrence Edwards & Duncan Pieterse, University of Cape
Town
Discussant: Rob Davies,
University of Zimbabwe |
Speakers 1:
Foreign aid and population growth: Evidence from Africa.
Leonid Azarnert, Tel-Aviv University
Discussant: Anders Danielson,
Lund University |
Speaker 2:
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being
in a divided society. Geeta Kingdon & John
Knight, Oxford University
Discussant: David Fryer, Rhodes University |
Speaker 2:
The
economy-wide impacts of the labour intensification of infrastructure
expenditure. Anna McCord,
University of Cape Town & Dirk van Seventer,
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
Discussant: Kalie Pauw,
Western Cape Department of Agriculture |
Speakers 2:
Credit demand and credit rationing in the
informal financial sector in Uganda. Nathan
Okurut, Andréie Schoombee & Servaas van der Berg,
Stellenbosch University
Discussant: Stephen Koch,
University of Pretoria |
Speaker 3:
Have labour market outcomes affected
household structure in South Africa? A preliminary descriptive
analysis of households. Farah Pirouz, University
of the Witwatersrand
Discussant: Peter Glick, Cornell
University |
Speaker 3:
Trade liberalisation and regional integration in
SADC: policy synergies assessed in an industrial organisation
framework. Martine Visser,
University
of Cape Town & Trudi Hartzenberg,
Tralac
Discussant: Regine Qualmann, SADC Secretariat |
Speaker 3:
Financial Intermediation and Access to Finance
in African Countries South of the Sahara. Neren Rau,
South African Reserve Bank
Discussant: Rashad Cassim, University
of the Witwatersrand |
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15:00 -
15:30
Conference Closure
Chair: Ravi Kanbur,
Cornell University |
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