TIPS/DPRU/Cornell University Forum 2004: African Development and Poverty Reduction: The Macro-Micro Linkage
Date(s):
2004-10-13 to 2004-10-15
Venue:
Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, South Africa
TIPS and DPRU, in association with Cornell University, sponsored an international conference to bring the best global research on issues around macro- and micro-economic linkages to the attention of African policy-makers. The Conference had a broad remit, covering theory, empirics and policy, while addressing individual countries, groups of countries, and the continent as a whole. The Conference focus echoed the South African government's facilitative role in the African Union, as the organisers believe South African research organisations should play a leading role in promoting dialogue between policy-makers and the research community - not only in South Africa but in the region more broadly. The objective of the Conference was to provide an environment within which robust debate can ensure that the research community is more attuned to the kinds of research questions facing the policy community, and that the policy community is aware of the latest relevant research available - locally, regionally and internationally. Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool opened the Conference, while Ravi Kanbur of Cornell University (and the former editor of the World Development Report) delivered a constructive critique on the World Bank's new policy on development policy lending. The Forum's opening and closing keynote addresses were delivered by John Page, World Bank chief economist: Africa and Alice Amsden of MIT, respectively. Out of the 50 papers presented at Forum 2004, eight were chosen through a peer-review selection process for a Special Issue of the Journal of African Economies on Poverty, Trade and Growth in Africa, published in December 2006. Papers presented at the forum are available for download.
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Event Publications
- The Determinants of HIV related Knowledge and Behaviours
- Modelling Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth Strategies in Malawi: Lessons for Policy and Analysis
- Budget Reform as a Means to Strengthen the Link between Macro and Micro Policies
- Infant Mortality in Uganda: Determinants, Trends and the Millennium Development Goals.
- Growth and Redistribution Effects of Poverty Changes in Cameroon.
- Inequality in South Africa: Nature, Causes and Responses
- Are Wealthier Nations Healthier Nations? A Panel Data Approach to the Determination of Human Development in Africa
- Macroeconomic Growth, Sectorial Quality of Growth and Poverty in Developing Countries: Measure and Application to Burkina Faso
- How Responsive is Capital Formation to its User Cost?
- Export processing zone expansion in an African country: What are the labour market and gender impacts?
- The Road to Pro-Poor Growth in Zambia
- Financial Services and the Informal Economy
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on Saving Behaviour in South Africa
- Exporting from Manufacturing Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Micro Evidence for Macro Outcomes
- Economic Growth without Poverty Reduction: Identifying the Missing Links in Tanzania during Economic Reform
- Labour Force Withdrawal of the Elderly in South Africa
- Small Business Entrepreneurship in Dar es salaam - Tanzania: Exploring Problems and Prospects for Future Development
- Agricultural Sector Investment and the Role of Public-Private Partnership
- Macro-Micro Linkages in Trade: Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Improved Productivity in South African Manufacturing Firms
- Industrial Strategy and Local Economic Development: Manufacturing Policy and Technological Capabilities in Ekurhulen
- Prospects and Challenges of Agricultural Technology Market Linkage under Liberalization in Ghana: Evidence from a Micro-Data
- Analysis of Farmers' Preferences for Development Intervention Programs: A Case Study of Subsistence Farmers from Eastern Ethopia
- Institutional Framework, Interest Rate Policy and the Nigerian Manufacturing Sub-sector
- Labour Migration and Households: a Reconsideration of the Effects of the Social Pension on Labour Supply in South Africa
- Alleviating Rural Poverty through Efficient Small Holders Farming Systems in Ethopia: Relevance of Macro Policies
- Multilateral Organisations: Instruments for Donors' Foreign Policy?
- Two Million Net New Jobs': A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995 2003
- Infrastructure Privatisation and Poverty Reduction in Africa
- The Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market
- Estimating Utility Consistent Poverty Lines
- Has the New Zealand/Australian Closer Economic Relationship (CER) been Trade Widening or Deepening?
- Food Security, Agricultural Technology and Policy - The Case of Maize in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Swaziland: In the Pursuit of Economic Liberalization and Growth. How Poverty is Reproduced at the Micro-level
- The Conjuncture of Poverty Microsimulation Linked to a Macroeconomic Forecasting Model: A Case Study in Senegal
- The Global Market Place: How far can Nigeria go with the Present Non-Oil Product Mix?
- South African Trade Reform since Democracy
- Youth Labour Markets in Africa
- The Demand for Education for Orphans in Zimbabwe
- The Mystery of South Africa's Ghost Workers in 1996: Measurement and Mismeasurement in the Manufacturing Census...
- Geography as Destiny: Considering the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa
- The Dynamics of Job Search and the Microfoundations of Unemployment: Evidence from Duncan village
- Genocide and Land Scarcity: Can Rwandan Rural Households Manage?
- Implications of Genetically Modified Food
- Have Minimum Wages Benefited South Africa's Domestic Service Workers?
- Well-Being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty in South Africa?
- Trade Liberalisation and Factor Returns in South Africa, 1988-2002.
- Foreign Aid and Population Growth: Evidence from Africa
- Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being in a Divided Society
- The Economy-Wide Impacts of the Labour Intensification of Infrastructure Expenditure
- Credit Demand and Credit Rationing in the Informal Financial Sector in Uganda
- Capital Flight from South Africa, 1980 to 2000
- Have Labour Market Outcomes Affected Household Structure in South Africa? A Preliminary Descriptive Analysis of Households
- Trade Liberalisation and Regional Integration in SADC: Policy Synergies Assessed in an Industrial Organisation Framework
- Financial Intermediation and Access to Finance in African Countries South of the Sahara









