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30th anniversary conference programme
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| THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER | |||||
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA | COMPASS |
| 07:30-08:30 | Registration - 1st floor | ||||
| 08:30-11:00 |
Opening, Welcome and Panel: Key Ideas and Outcomes in Global Development |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 11:30-13:00 |
1.1 The Distribution of Wealth: What Next? |
1.2 Trade and Development |
1.3 Conflict |
1.4 The Economics of Africa |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 14:00-15:30 |
2.1 Poverty and Inequality in Africa |
2.2 Learning to Compete/Industrial Policy |
2.3 Natural Resources and Development |
2.4 Social Protection |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 16:00-18:00 | Panel: The Role of Economists in Policy | ||||
| 18:00-19:00 | Poster session by 20 early career researchers | ||||
| 19:30-22:00 | Opening dinner – Restaurant Wanha Satama | ||||
| FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER | |||||
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA | COMPASS |
| 08:30-11:00 | Keynote: The State, the Market, and Development | ||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 11:30-13:00 |
3.1 Inequality: What Next? |
3.2 The International Monetary and Financial System |
3.3 Macroeconomics for Development |
3.4 Making Multi-Disciplinarity Work |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 14:00-15:30 |
4.1 The Economics of Foreign Aid |
4.2 Latin America: Employment and Poverty |
4.3 Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition Post 2015 |
4.4 Taxation |
4.5 World Economy |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 16:00-18:00 | Panel: Human Development: Progress but What Next? | ||||
| 18:00 onwards | Helsinki by Night | ||||
| SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER | |||||
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA | PRESS ROOM |
| 08:30-10:30 | Panel: Poverty: What Next? | ||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 11:00-12:30 |
5.1 Aid Policy and the Post 2015 Agenda |
5.2 Urbanization and Spatial Inequality |
5.3 Climate Change and Energy |
5.4 Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa |
5.5 Microeconomics for Development |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| TIME | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA | COMPASS | PRESS ROOM |
| 13:30-15:00 |
6.1 Gender Equality and Development |
6.2 Informal Livelihood |
6.3 Trends and Prospects in Global Inequality |
6.4 Growth, poverty and inequality: overcoming barriers |
6.5 Health |
| 15:00-15:30 | Registration for Annual Lecture 19 – refresments | ||||
| 15:30-18:30 |
WIDER Annual Lecture 19 Three decades of change in development |
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| 18:30- | Closing dinner – Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
Thursday 17 September 2015 - Full programme
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA |
| 07:30-08:30 | Registration - 1st floor | |||
| 08:30-11:00 |
Opening Finn Tarp |
Welcome Minister Lenita Toivakka |
Opening Panel: Key Ideas and Outcomes in Global Development Chair: Kristiina Kuvaja-Xanthopoulos Panelists: Ernest Aryeetey, Justin Lin, Nora Lustig, Deepak Nayyar |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
| 11:30-13:00 | Parallel 1.1 | Parallel 1.2 | Parallel 1.3 | Parallel 1.4 |
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: WHAT NEXT? Chair: Tony Shorrocks Presentation Jim Davies Daniel Waldenström Response Li Shi Sreenivasan Subramanian |
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Chair: Valpy FitzGerald Presentation Ronald Findlay Alan Winters Adrian Wood Response Alisa DiCaprio |
CONFLICT Chair: Omar McDoom Presentation Graciana del Castillo Patricia Justino Mansoob Murshed Response Tilman Brück |
THE ECONOMICS OF AFRICA Chair: Augustin Fosu Presentation Justin Lin Celestin Monga Response Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Beatrice Mkenda |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Parallel 2.1 | Parallel 2.2 | Parallel 2.3 | Parallel 2.4 |
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POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN AFRICA (A WORLD BANK/UNDP SPECIAL SESSION) Chair: Francisco Ferreira Presentation Kathleen Beegle Haroon Bhorat Andrea Cornia Response Andy McKay |
LEARNING TO COMPETE/INDUSTRIAL POLICY Chair: Sam Wangwe Presentation Carol Newman John Page Måns Söderbom John Rand Response Witness Simbanegavi Neda Trifković |
NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT Chair: Amadou Boly Presentation Wisdom Akpalu Nadia Ouedraogo Alan Roe Response Donald Mmari |
SOCIAL PROTECTION Chair: Lisa Román Presentation Santiago Levy Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Response Túlio Cravo Germano Mwabu |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | |||
| 16:00-18:00 |
Panel: The Role of Economists in Policy Chair: David Malone Panelists: Montek Ahluwalia, Stefan Dercon, Steve O’Connell |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Poster session by 20 early career researchers Chairs: Carla Canelas, Saurabh Singhal Group 1: Welfare Presentation Diana Lopez-Avila, Eleni Abraham Yitbarek, Elizabeth Lwanga Nanziri, Hoang-Anh Ho, Kalyani Ragunathan, Roukiatou Nikiema, Tseday Mekasha Group 2: Human Capital Presentation Bethlehem Argaw, Christian Oldiges, Hejer Lasram, Kaisa Alavuotunki, Nazmul Ahsan, Sarah Akuoni, Soham Sahoo, Tara Kaul Group 3: Labour and Agricultural Economics Presentation Amira Bouziri, George Acheampong, Gwladys L. Mabah, Heidi Kaila, Ngoc Minh Nguyen |
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| 19:30-21:30 | Opening dinner - Restaurant Wanha Satama | |||
Friday 18 September 2015 - Full programme
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA |
COMPASS hotel across the street 1st floor |
| 08:30-11:00 |
Keynote: The State, the Market, and Development – Joseph Stiglitz Chair: President Tarja Halonen |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 11:30-13:00 | Parallel 3.1 | Parallel 3.2 | Parallel 3.3 | Parallel 3.4 | |
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INEQUALITY: WHAT NEXT? Chair: Young-mok Kim Presentation Ravi Kanbur Jukka Pirttilä Finn Tarp Response Markus Jäntti Ingrid Woolard |
THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM Chair: Valpy FitzGerald Presentation Laurence Harris Seppo Honkapohja José Antonio Ocampo Response Roberto Frenkel Njuguna S. Ndung'u |
MACROECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT Chair: Lemma Senbet Presentation Chris Adam Tony Addison Kuben Naidoo Response Peter Quartey Robert Osei |
MAKING MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY WORK Chair: Rachel Gisselquist Presentation Haroon Bhorat Francie Lund Danielle Resnick Michael Woolcock |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 14:00-15:30 | Parallel 4.1 | Parallel 4.2 | Parallel 4.3 | Parallel 4.4 | Parallel 4.5 |
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THE ECONOMICS OF FOREIGN AID Chair: Patrick Guillaumont Presentation Henrik Hansen Sam Jones Oliver Morrissey Response Tseday Mekasha |
LATIN AMERICA: EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY Chair: Gary Fields Presentation Guillermo Cruces David Jaume Mariana Viollaz Response Carla Canelas Tuuli Paukkeri |
AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION POST 2015 Chair: Zhu Ling Presentation Per Pinstrup-Andersen David Sahn Rob Vos Response Blandina Kilama Emilio Tostão |
TAXATION (ICTD/UNU-WIDER SPECIAL SESSION) Chair: Kari Alanko Presentation Alex Cobham Elizabeth Gavin Mick Moore Jukka Pirttilä Response Tony Addison Jörgen Levin |
WORLD ECONOMY Chair: Rolph van der Hoeven Presentation Vladimir Popov Amelia Santos-Paulino Andy Sumner Response William Baah-Boateng |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 16:00-18:00 |
Panel: Human Development: Progress but What Next? Chair: Annika Sundén Panelists: Heidi Hautala, Richard Jolly, Lant Pritchett, Frances Stewart |
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| 19:00-21:30 | Helsinki by Night | ||||
Saturday 19 September 2015 - Full programme
| TIME | EUROPAEA | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA | PRESS ROOM |
| 08:30-10:30 |
Panel: Poverty: What Next? Chair: Erik Thorbecke Panelists: Peter Lanjouw, Santiago Levy, Martin Ravallion |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| 11:00-12:30 | Parallel 5.1 | Parallel 5.2 | Parallel 5.3 | Parallel 5.4 | Parallel 5.5 |
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AID POLICY AND THE POST 2015 AGENDA Chair: Ichiro Tambo Presentation Richard Carey Richard Manning Myles Wickstead Response Ritva Reinikka |
URBANIZATION AND SPATIAL INEQUALITY (IGC SPECIAL SESSION) Chair: Jonathan Leape Presentation Simon Franklin Ijaz Nabi Tony Venables |
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY Chair: Channing Arndt Presentation Doug Arent Mekuria Beyene Henry 'Jake' Jacoby Response Nadia Ouedraogo James Thurlow |
GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN AFRICA Chair: Arne Bigsten Presentation Murray Leibbrandt Michael Grimm David Stifel Response Elsie Kanza |
MICROECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT Chair: Carol Newman Presentation Alain de Janvry Karen Macours Christopher Woodruff Response Saurabh Singhal Smriti Sharma |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||
| TIME | FENNIA I | NORDIA | NAUTICA |
COMPASS hotel across the street 1st floor |
PRESS ROOM |
| 13:30-15:00 | Parallel 6.1 | Parallel 6.2 | Parallel 6.3 | Parallel 6.4 | Parallel 6.5 |
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GENDER EQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT Chair: Päivi Kannisto Presentation Elizabeth Asiedu Louise Fox Jean-Philippe Platteau Response Maty Konte Anne Michels |
INFORMAL LIVELIHOODS (WIEGO SPECIAL SESSION) Chair: Francie Lund Presentation Martha Chen Ravi Kanbur Imraan Valodia |
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN GLOBAL INEQUALITY Chair: Steen Sonne Andersen Presentation Francois Bourguignon Peter Lanjouw Murray Leibbrandt Nora Lustig Li Shi |
GROWTH, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: OVERCOMING BARRIERS (AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK SPECIAL SESSION) Chair: Ibi Ajayi Presentation Augustin Fosu Morten Jerven Abebe Shimeles Erik Thorbecke Nadege Yameogo |
HEALTH Chair: P.B. Anand Presentation Yoko Akachi Michael Borowitz Karri Silventoinen |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Registration for Annual Lecture 19 | ||||
| 15:30-18:30 |
WIDER Annual Lecture 19: Three decades of change in development Chair: Finn Tarp Welcome: President Martti Ahtisaari Lecturer: Amartya Sen Final Remarks: Finn Tarp |
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| 18:30- | Closing dinner - Europaea foyer 1st floor | ||||