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Inclusive Growth in Africa - Conference Programme
Friday 20 September 2013
| Fennia II | Fennia I | Nordia | Baltica | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration 2nd floor | |||
| 09:00-10:30 |
Welcome Finn Tarp |
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Opening keynote Martin Ravallion: The idea of antipoverty policy |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee 2nd floor | |||
| 11:00-12:30 |
Parallel 1.1
UNU-WIDER GROWTH AND POVERTY PROJECT (GAPP) (I) |
Parallel 1.2
IMPACT OF SOCIAL POLICY |
Parallel 1.3
GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE |
Parallel 1.4
INEQUALITY AND GROWTH |
| Channing Arndt: Estimating utility consistent powerty lines | Frank Borge Wietzke: Settlers and missionaries: A sub-national comparison of the long-term consequences of colonial institutions and historical school investments | Markus Eberhardt and Francis Teal: Sources of growth in an empirical dual economy model | Georges Vivien Houngbonon et al.: Three stylized facts about inclusive growth in Africa: Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal and Tanzania | |
| Arden Finn, Murray Leibbrandt, and Morne Oosthuizen: Poverty, inequality and prices in post-apartheid South Africa | Renate Hartwig: Public works as means to push for poverty reduction? Short-term welfare effects of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme | Kenneth Harttgen and Margaret McMillan: Structural change and inclusive growth in Africa | Mario Negre: Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth | |
| David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena, and Faly Rakotomanana: Utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-2010: Snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks | I.O. Akoto, Eric Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, Robert Darko Osei: The impact of conditional cash transfers programmes on household work decisions in Ghana | Remi Jedwab and Robert Darko Osei: Structural change in Ghana 1960-2010 | S. Subramanian: Assessing inequality in the presence of growth: an expository essay | |
| Marijke Verpoorten: Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda: A broad perspective | ||||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch – Restaurant Marine 2nd floor | |||
| 13:30-15:00 |
Parallel 2.1
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY |
Parallel 2.2
ENTERPRISES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
Parallel 2.3
UNPACKING AFRICAN NUMBERS |
Parallel 2.4
INFORMALITY AND URBANIZATION |
| James E. Foster: A framework for measuring inclusive growth | Louise Fox and Obert Pimhidzai: Household nonfarm enterprises and structural transformation: Evidence from Uganda | Morten Jerven: African growth miracle or statistical tragedy? Interpreting trends in the data over the past two decades | Martha Chen, Sally Roever, Mike Rogan, Caroline Skinner, and Imraan Valodia: Including the informal economy in inclusive growth: Evidence from an international study including Accra, Durban and Nakuru | |
| Christophe Muller: Priority-based multidimensional poverty | Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiová, and Thierry Kangoye: Youth entrepreneurship in Africa: Policy analysis and evidence from Swaziland | Justin Sandefur and Amanda Glassman: The political economy of bad data: Evidence from African survey & administrative statistics | Ivan Turok: The contribution of informal urban settlements to inclusive growth | |
| Sam Jones: How robust are composite indicators? An almost certain stochastic simulation approach | Roberto Foa and Arjan de Haan: The last mile in analyzing growth, wellbeing and poverty: Indices of social development and their application to Africa | Martin Medina: Inclusive growth and the informal waste sector in Africa: Exploring the challenges and opportunities | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee 2nd floor | |||
| 15:30-17:00 |
Poster 1 AGRICULTURE Chair: Aziz Karimov |
Poster 2 HEALTH AND EDUCATION Chair: Tony Addison |
Poster 3 SOCIAL PROTECTION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION Chair: Saurabh Singhal |
Poster 4 EMPLOYMENT, INFORMALITY, AND YOUTH Chair: Rachel Gisselquist |
Poster 5 GROWTH AND INCLUSIVENESS Chair: Yongfu Huang |
Poster 6 POVERTY AND INEQUALITY Chair: Gyanendra Badgaiyan |
Poster 7 UNU-WIDER GROWTH AND POVERTY PROJECT (GAPP) Chair: Miguel Niño-Zarazúa |
| A) Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa: Searching for a Holy Grail? The nexus between agriculture and youth unemployment in Malawi | A) Nicholas Spaull and Stephen Taylor: ‘Effective enrolment’ - creating a composite measure of educational access and educational quality to accurately describe education system performance in sub-Saharan Africa | A) Fidelis Hove and Matthew Powell: The impact of demographic and economic growth on the affordability and impact of social protection in South Africa | A) Michael Grimm and Anna Luisa Paffhausen: Interventions for employment creation in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in low- and middle-income countries, a systematic review | A) Françoise Okah-Efogo: How far do growth determinants help in explaining African growth? | A) Ana Catarina Kaizeler and Horácio C. Faustino: The effects of globalization on income inequality in LDCs: Panel data analysis for the period 1995-2010 | A) Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, Vincent Leyaro, Sam Jones, and Finn Tarp: Poverty and growth in Tanzania | |
| B) Benjamin Wood, Carl Nelsony, Talip Kilicz, and Siobhan Murray: Up in smoke?: Agricultural commercialization, rising food prices and stunting in Malawi | B) Caroline Krafft, Asmaa Elbadawy, and Ragui Assaad: Access within the higher education system in Egypt: Evidence for more inequality of opportunity | B) H.M. Ayerakwa, Robert Darko Osei, and I. Osei-Akoto: Cash transfers and household consumption expenditures: The case of Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in Ghana | B) Ermelinda Liberato: Youth in Angola: Social and political transformations | B) A.O. Kjøller-Hansen and Lena Lindbjerg Sperling: Measuring inclusive growth experiences ‒ five criteria for productive employment | B) Stephen L. Kirama: Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures: A decomposition analysis with application to household budget surveys’ data in Tanzania | B) Arne Bigsten, Damiano Kulundu Manda, Germano Mwabu, and Anthony Wambugu: Incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya: A long term perspective | |
| C) Sylvia Senu: The case of stuntedness amongst children in LEAP Households | C) O.U. Oteh, I.N. Nwachukwu; S.N. Robert, and A.Q. Atasie: Impact of social inclusiveness on effective poverty reduction programmes in Abia State, Nigeria | C) Nwabisa Makaluza: Double-edged sword: Heterogeneity within the South African informal sector | C) Diana Lee: Measuring wealth using an economically consistent asset index: An application in Malawi | C) Reza C. Daniels: Estimating poverty and inequality from micro data with multiple sources of survey error | C) Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira, and Dede Houeto Aduayom: The role of price and consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: A reassessment of poverty in Uganda | ||
| D) Angela Micah: Health insurance as a policy instrument for promoting inclusive growth: Evidence from Ghana | D) Malokele Nanivazo: Multidimensional first order dominance analysis: An application to the Democratic Republic of Congo | D) Taruna Shalini Ramessur: A comparative analysis of the tradeoffs between the dimensions of poverty: The case of seven western African countries | D) Charles Ackah, Johnson Wilson Appiah Kubi, Robert Darko Osei, Isaac Osei-Akato, and Jukka Pirttilä: GAPP – case Ghana | ||||
| E) Channing Arndt, Sam Jones, and Vincenzo Salvucci: Prices, inequality and growth over the 2007-9 price upsurge: The case of Mozambique | E) Samuel Fambon: Growth, poverty and inequality: The case study of Cameroon |
| Fennia II | Fennia I | Nordia | Baltica | |
| 17:00-18:30 |
Special session Chair: Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Gyanendra Badgayian: The WIID |
Special session Chair: Malokele Nanivazo Arjan de Haan: DFID/IDRC/Hewlett research programme, GrOW (Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women) |
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| 18:30-20:00 | Conference reception – Restaurant Marine, MCC | |||
Saturday 21 September 2013
| Fennia II | Fennia I | Nordia | Baltica | |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Keynote Chair: Tony Addison Erik Thorbecke: The anatomy of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee 2nd floor | |||
| 10:30-12:00 |
Parallel 3.1
GROWTH, POVERTY, AND INEQUALITY IN AFRICA |
Parallel 3.2
SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING |
Parallel 3.3
RURAL DIVERSIFICATION AND REMITTANCES |
Parallel 3.4
POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS |
| Andy McKay: Growth and poverty in Africa since 1990 | Erin Lentz: Community characteristics, reference group inequality and subjective wellbeing: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa | Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, and Yasuyuki Todo: Urbanization and poverty reduction: The role of rural diversification and secondary towns | Machiko Nissanke: A quest for institutional foundations towards inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Andrea Cornia: Inequality in Africa: Levels, trends and determinants | Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan: Measured as poor versus feeling poor: Comparing objective and subjective poverty rates in South Africa | Samuel Gebreselassie: Small-investor farmers in Lume district of Ethiopia: Opportunities and challenges in driving the growth process on and beyond their farm | Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Uneven regional development in Ghana: Does politics matter? | |
| Carlos Gradín: Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans | Maria Ngarachu, Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts, and Volker Schoeer: Can an intervention aimed at improving economic inclusion make recipients less happy? Findings from a randomized control trial | Georgina M. Gomez and Gracsious Ncube: Remittances in rural Zimbabwe: From consumption to investment? | Beatrice Reaud: Informal urban development and service delivery in Mozambique: Do boycotts improve trash collection? | |
| 12:00-13:300 | Lunch – Restaurant Marine 2nd floor | |||
| 13:00-14:30 |
Parallel 4.1
LABOUR MOBILITY |
Parallel 4.2
UNU-WIDER GROWTH AND POVERTY PROJECT (GAPP) (2) |
Parallel 4.3
INVESTMENT AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH |
Parallel 4.4
POVERTY DYNAMICS AND DECOMPOSITION |
| Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga, and Benjamin Stanwix: Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa | David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna: Utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-2011: Welfare improvements in a changing economic landscape | Stephen D. Younger, Sarah Ssewanyana, Ibrahim Kasirye, and Elaine Hill: Can public investments in infrastructure support inclusive growth in Uganda? | Natalie Naïri Quinn: Chronic and transient poverty in rural Ethiopia: A new decomposition | |
| Dennis Essers: South African labour market transitions during the global financial and economic crisis: Micro-level evidence from the NIDS panel and matched QLFS cross-sections | Michael Grimm, Claude Wetta, and Aude Nikiema: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian trap | Isabela Nogueira: Agricultural systems with pro-poor orientation in Mozambique? ProSAVANA and the forgotten risks of contract farming | Tomoki Fujii: Poverty decomposition by regression: Application to Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire | |
| Lena Giesbert, Sarah Linde, and Sebastian Prediger: What can be learnt from the performance of migrant entrepreneurs? The case of Indian and African migrant enterprises in Uganda | Denis Cogneau, Kenneth Houngbedji, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps: The fall of the elephant: Two decades of poverty increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988-2008) |
Philipp Baumgartner: Can large-scale agro-investments serve as an engine for inclusive growth? Empirical evidence from Uganda & Ethiopia |
Bill H. Kinsey: The excluded generations: Questioning a leading poverty indicator | |
| Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, and Olufunke Alaba: Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria: First-order dominance approach | ||||
| 14:30-14:45 | Coffee 2nd floor | |||
| 14:45-15:45 |
Parallel 5.1
DEVELOPMENT MODELS |
Parallel 5.2
MICROFINANCE AND SAVINGS FENNIA |
Parallel 5.3
SHOCKS AND VULNERABILITY |
Parallel 5.4
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY IN MALAWI |
| Ed Amann and Armando Barrientos: Is there a Brazilian model of development? Are there lessons for countries in Africa? | Florence Arestoff and Baptiste Venet: Learning to walk before you run: Financial behavior and mobile banking in Madagascar | Amarakoon Bandara, Rajeev Dehejia, and Shaheen Lavie Rouse: Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labor: Evidence from a panel survey of Tanzania | Ulrik Beck, Richard Mussa, and Karl Pauw: Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle | |
| Y. Abba Omar: Planning and its discontents: A critical appraisal of SA’s strategies for development and inclusive growth | Marie Boltz-Laemmel: How can I say no? Savings and sharing pressure in the extended family: Evidence from Senegal | Tony Addison and Atanu Ghoshray: Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa | Channing Arndt, Karl Pauw, and James Thurlow: The economywide impacts and risks of Malawi’s farm input subsidy program | |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Plenary panel: How to promote inclusive growth in Africa Chair: Finn Tarp
Tony Addison |
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