Workshop: Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty: A Global View

Location: Ngor Diarama Hotel

This workshop will mark the official launch of GDN's new global research program entitled "Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty: A Global View." The ...

Plenary 1: Mutual Impact: Perspectives from the Developing and Developed Worlds

Location: Amphitheatre

Mutual impact has many connotations. Most obviously, one might think of economic impact; however, the concept need not be limited to ...

Workshop: Bridging Research and Policy

Location: Sofitel Teranga Hotel

This workshop is the second global workshop held as part of the GDN Global Research Project on "Bridging Research and Policy." The workshop's aim is ...

Workshop: Moving out of Poverty

Location: Ngor Diarama Hotel

Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Growth and Freedom from the Bottom Up is a global research and outreach program to examine how people move out ...

Workshop: Harmonization of Degrees and the New Policies of Higher Education

Location: Universitaire Cheikh Anta Diop de Daka Conference Center

In the current context of globalization, the knowledge economy presents a certain number of major implications for universities, of which the most important are related ...

Parallel Sessions 1: Mutual Responsibility and the Development Agenda

These parallels examine aspects of mutual impact from multidisciplinary and global perspectives. This includes sessions on the economic, cultural, and ...

Parallel Session 1.1: International Financial Reform

Location: B05/06

This session presents and discusses a study addressing the emerging international financial architecture (What Progress on International Financial Reform? Why so Limited?).

Chair: Torgny Holmgren

Parallels 1.2: Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization: A Fair Globalization-Creating Opportunities for All

Location: BO1

The session presents the recent report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (WCSDG) and opens its messages to debate.

Parallels 1.3: From Cultural Conflict to Cooperation: Lessons from Four

Location: C05/06

This session will explore the different ways in which local cultures in four distinct regions of the globe-Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and ...

Parallels 1.4: Improving Impacts of Research Partnerships

Location: Chef des Delegations

The Swiss Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries (KFPE) will present and discuss a publication that is based on analysis of a number of ...

Parallels 1.5: Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty

Location: C01

This session examines the impact of rich countries' policies on growth and reducing poverty in developing countries. One specific goal of this research is to ...

Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Plenary 2: Development in the 21st Century: African Perspectives

Location: Amphitheatre

This session focuses on the issues in which the impact of the developed world on Africa and vice versa is most tangible.

Parallels 2.1: Mutual Dependence and Regional Economic Cooperation in East Asia

Location: B05/06

Countries in East Asia cover the full spectrum of income levels, ranging from high income advanced economies such as Japan and Singapore to low income ...

Chair: Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Parallels 2.4: International Migration - the Challenge of Promoting Fairer Flows of People, Skills and Remittances

Location: C01

As the scale, impact and complexity of international migration flows increases, the challenge of harnessing the benefits of migration for the mutual gain of sending ...

Parallels 2.5: Trade Policy and Poverty: Experience from South Asian and Latin American Regions

Location: Chef des Delegations

The recent emphasis on poverty amid increasing globalization has spurred a great deal of search on the link between trade and poverty.

Workshop: Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty: A Global View

Location: Ngor Diarama Hotel

Workshop: Moving out of Poverty

Location: Ngor Diarama Hotel

Parallels 2.2: National versus Common Currencies: Implications for Development

Location: B01

Countries in many regions of the world are debating whether the advantages of joining a currency union outweigh the costs in terms of loss of ...

Chair: Randall Filer

Parallels 2: Interregional Perspectives of Mutual Dependence

The sessions are organized from an inter-regional perspective, with Regional Network Partners (RNPs) from the developing world pairing up with ..

Parallels 2.3: Mutual Impacts of a Successful Transition from Aid Dependence

Location: C05/06

Aid dependence occurs when a government receiving concessional external assistance would suffer serious economic repercussions if it were significantly reduced or eliminated in a short ...

Chair: William Lyakurwa

Plenary 3: Roundtable: Civil Society and the Private Sector

Location: Amphitheatre

This plenary should involve prominent activists/experts of global civil society, who will explore the ways in which civil society actors who are active in development ...

Parallels 3.4: Mutual Impact, the Global Economic Architecture, and the Millennium Development Goals

Location: C01

The types of impacts that countries have upon one another are often influenced by the existing  global rules of the game  as defined in the ...

Chair: Eliana Cardoso

Parallels 3: Presentations by Medal Finalists

In these sessions, the finalists of each category of the GDN's Research Medals Competition will present their papers. Researchers from the developing world who have ...

Parallels 3.1: Conflict, Human Security and Migration

Location: B05/06

Conflict in today's globalizing environment has been a particularly salient feature in the politics of developing and transitional countries. Yet, the north is increasingly involved ...

Chair: Vladimir Popov

Parallels 3.2: Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and the Environment

Location: B01

There is broad consensus that properly managed foreign direct investment is a powerful instrument of economic development for developing countries.

Parallels 3.3: Investment in Health and Mutual Impact

Location: C05/06

In a world of AIDS, SARS, and Mad Cow disease, policy-makers and populations across the world recognize that health has become increasingly globalized.

Parallels 3.5: Trade Policies and Sub-Sahara Africa

Location: Chef des Delegations

Given the small size of most Sub-Saharan Africa economies, specialization through international trade is often seen as a critical element in socio-economic development.

Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Plenary 4: Mutual Dependence: Security and Peace

Location: Amphitheatre

This plenary considers the security dilemmas faced by developing and developed countries in the context of the global war against international terrorism.

Parallels 4: Political Climate and Economic Development

These sessions explore the ways in which the political climate influences development outcomes. Here, the focus is on both the domestic and international political considerations.

Parallel Session 4.1: 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development

Location: B05/06

The World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) for 2006 on Equity and Development focuses on the wide range of inequalities existing within countries and ...

Chair: Alan Gelb

Parallel Session 4.2: Elections and Economic Policymaking

Location: B01

As developing countries have liberalized their political systems over the course of the last two decades, multi-party electoral competition has become the norm, as has ...

Parallel Session 4.3: Bridging Research and Policy

Location: C05/06

This session will highlight research generated as a result of two research phases of the GDN Global Research Project on "Bridging Research and Policy" and ...

Parallel Session 4.4: Political Constraints and Opportunities in Transition Economies

Location: C01

This session will highlight research generated as a result of two research phases of the GDN Global Research Project on "Bridging Research and Policy" and ...

Parallel Session 4.5: Managing our Natural Resources in the Global Economy: Issues for Small States

Location: Chef des Delegations

Economic growth and good governance are keys to sustainable development and poverty reduction. Despite their size, small island states often have significant ...

Plenary 5: Presentations by Award Finalists

Location: Amphitheatre

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project The award carries cash prizes totaling USD 95,000 plus travel expenses to GDN s Annual Conference.

Parallels 5.1: Rural Development in Asia: Synergy between Rural Community and Local Administrations

Location: BO5/06

Rural development is employed as a powerful tool for poverty reduction in many countries. In some Asian countries, rural development activities are also given symbolic ...

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Parallels 5.3: Presentations by Past Winners of the Outstanding Research on Development Award

Location: C05/06

One of the conditions of the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development is that the winners return to a subsequent GDN conference to report ...

Parallels 5.5: Africa and the Millennium Development Goals

Location: Chef des Delegations

The African Development Bank will make the following two presentations: 1.Assessing Africas progress towards the MDGs 2.Costs and policies required to attain the MDGs.

Parallels 5.2: Water Reforms and Poverty Alleviation: How to Pursue Water-Related MDG's

Location: B01

Improved access to water has impacts on nearly all Millennium Development Goals. Apart from the direct goal of sustainable access to safe drinking water (MDG ...

Parallels 5.4: Trade, Investment, and Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa

Location: C01

The key development challenge facing the African region is how to achieve sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The first Millennium Development Goal focuses on ...

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Parallels 5: Pursuing the Millennium Development Goals

The sessions address the extent to which the Millennium Development Goals have been achieved, identifying problematic areas. The sessions are sponsored by various multilateral and ...

End on 26 January 2006

Workshop: The Role of Research in the Formulation of Policy

Location: Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie Conference Room

In the context of the development of a knowledge society, in an increasingly globalized world, the role of the university is no longer to simply ...