First Academic EUDN Conference Agenda


First Academic EUDN Conference Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Institutions
Date: November 14-15, 2003 Venue: AfD, 5 rue Roland Barthes, 75598 Paris Cedex 12 Organized by European Development Research Network (EUDN) in collaboration with Agence française de Développement (AfD)
Friday, November 14th, 2003
09.00 - 10.00	Humberto Lopez, World Bank Macroeconomics and Inequality
10.00 - 11.00	Jean-Claude Berthélemy, University of Paris To what extent education policies are pro-poor in sub-Saharan Africa?
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30	Pramila Krishnan, University of Cambridge Endogenous Network Formation and Informal Networks in Rural Economies
12.30 - 14.15	Lunch Break
14.15 - 15.15	Wilson Perez, Cornell University Divide and conquer: Noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution
15.15. - 16.15	Jean-Philippe Platteau, University of Namur Disciplining Local Leaders in Community-Based Development
16.15. - 16.30	Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30	Jakob Svensson, IIES, Stockholm University / Development Research Group, World Bank The power of information: Evidence from a campaign to reduce capture
17.30 - 19.00	EUDN member meeting

Saturday, November 15th, 2003
09.00 - 10.00	Hao Chen, Université d’Auvergne Development of Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth Chinese Experience
10.00 - 11.00	Marcel Fafchamps, University of Oxford Contingent Loan Repayment in the Philippines
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30	Marie Godquin, University of Paris Microfinance repayment performance in Bangladesh. How to improve the allocation of loans by MFI´s?
12.30 - 14.15	Lunch Break
14.15 - 15.15.	Stefanie Engel, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: The case of Indonesia
15.15. - 16.15	Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University Ethnic Divisions, Interlinkages and Search Costs in the Guatemalan Land Rental Market
16.15 - 16.30	Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30	Jean-Louis Arcand, Université d'Auvergne Racial discrimination in the Brazilian labor market: Wage, employment and segregation effects
17.30	End of the Conference