The meeting increased knowledge about the "filters" between developed-country policies and socioeconomic outcomes in developing countries. It asked how and to what measurable extent the effects of developed-country policy ripple through different institutional environments in developing countries to create socioeconomic change. Policies of interest include decisions taken by rich-country governments in the areas of foreign aid, trade policy, migration policy, environment, security, and private investment regulation. By enhancing the collection and analysis of data with respect to developed-country policies and developing-country sensitivities, this research offers an innovative and quantifiable perspective on the imperative for development in an age of globalization.
This research workshop followed and continued the enterprise of two earlier meetings:
- The Global Policy Workshop on the Development Impact of Rich Countries' Policies, Cairo, January 16-17, 2003, convened by the Global Policy Project
- The Experts' Seminar on The Coherence and Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Developing Countries, in Paris on June 23-24, 2003, under the auspices of the Global Policy Project and the OECD Development Centre
Building on this work, the October research workshop brought together top researchers from developing and developed countries to assess the state of the art in research quantifying the impact of rich countries' policies on poor countries, point out gaps in our knowledge of the magnitude of these impacts both singly and comparatively, and suggest key areas of further study. Where the previous meetings had addressed the "what" of quantifying impact, this workshop addressed the "how".
Thursday, October 23, 2005
Research session: MIGRATION
Chair: Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development
Discussant: Louka Katseli, OECD Development Centre
Alan Winters, University of Sussex
The Economic Implications of Liberalising Mode 4 Trade
Relaxing the Restrictions on the Temporary Movement of Natural Persons: A Simulation Analysis
Eugenia Markova, University of Sussex
Changes in Social and Economic Status of the Legalized Bulgarian Immigrants in Greece
Questionnaire about Bulgarian Immigrants in Spain
John McHale, Queen's University, Ontario
Gone but not forgotten
The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration
Robert E. B. Lucas, Boston University
Issues in measuring the impact of migration regimes on economic development (no paper)
H. N. Thenuwara, Central Bank of Sri Lanka
The impact of the Mode 4 liberalization of services on economic growth and policy options
Research session: TRADE I
Chair: Lyn Squire, Global Development Network
Discussant: Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
The Earnings Effects of Multilateral Trade Liberalization
William Cline, Institute for International Economics and CGD
Industrial Country Protection and the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Global Poverty (paper available at workshop)
Guido Porto, World Bank
Trade Reforms, Market Access and Poverty in Argentina
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, United Nations University
The Impact Of The WTO Regime On Developing Countries
Wage Determination of Child Labor and Effect of Trade Reform
Research session: OTHER IMPACTS
Chair: Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development
Discussants: Guy Pfefferman, World Bank; Ted Moran, Georgetown University
Stijn Claessens, University of Amsterdam
Basle II Capital Requirements and Developing Countries: A Political Economy Perspective
Manuel Albaladejo, University of Oxford
Indicators of the Relative Importance of IPRs In Developing Countries
Shyamal Chowdhury, International Food Policy Research Institute
Setting Weights for Aggregate Indices: An Application to the Commitment to Development Index and Human Development Index
Paul Epstein, Harvard University School of Medicine
Biological and Physical Signs of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases
Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Friday, October 24, 2005
Research session: TRADE II
Chair: Gary McMahon, Global Development Network
Discussant: Sherman Robinson, International Food Policy Research Institute
Odin Knudsen, World Bank
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Incomplete Trade Liberalization and Developing Countries
Michael Gasiorek, University of Sussex
The EU-Med partnership and rules of origin
Ahmed Galal, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Cairo
Egypt-US and Morocco-US Free Trade Agreements
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Center for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka
Preferential Market Access to EU and Japan
Marcelo Olarreaga, World Bank
Reducing Agricultural Tariffs versus Domestic Support: What's More Important for Developing Countries?
Research session: AID
Chair: Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Discussant: Steve Radelet, Center for Global Development
Torgny Holmgren, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Shared Responsibility - Sweden's Policy for Global Development
Ernest Aryeetey, University of Ghana and ISSER
Does Tying Aid make it More Costly?
David Roodman, Center for Global Development
The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics - updated 07/2004
Michael Atingi-Ego, Central Bank of Uganda
Impact of HIPC debt initiative on macroeconomic variables - Case of Uganda
Hirohisa Kohama, University of Shizuoka, Japan
Aid and Growth Reconsidered
* * *Attendees who did not make a presentation include:
Punam Chuhan, World Bank
Kim Hamilton, Migration Policy Institute
Victoria Levin, World Bank
Milena Novy-Marx, MacArthur Foundation
Patrick Osakwe, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Mary Page, MacArthur Foundation
Demetri Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute
George Vickers, Open Society Institute
Janet Maughan, The Rockefeller Foundation
Ulrich Hiemenz, OECD Development Center
Robert Picciotto, Global Policy Project
Dilip Ratha, World Bank
Zia Qureshi, World Bank
Yuki Tokoyama, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
