Workshop 2: Bridging Research and Policy

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel

This workshop is the second global workshop held as part of the GDN Global Research Project on "Bridging Research and Policy"

End on 26 January 2004

Workshop 1: Understanding Reform

Location: Taj Palace Hotel

"Understanding Reform," a cross-country comparison of reform policies and experiences, aims to explain successes, failures, and the interaction of various market and political reforms, focusing ...

End on 26 January 2004

Workshop 4: moving out of Poverty

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel

Why and how do some poor people move out of poverty and stay out of poverty while others stay trapped in chronic poverty? Moving Out ...

Workshop 5: Tachling absence of teachers and medical personnel

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel

Absenteeism of service providers in primary health and education represents a major obstacle to the drive to meet the Millennium Development Goals, as discussed in ...

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Workshop 6: Evaluating partnerships

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel

This workshop discussed the "Impact Assessment Study on Research Partnership (IAS-RP)", which aims to examine the impact of research partnerships.  During the workshop, the draft ...

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Workshop 7: Security and Development

Location: Taj Palace Hotel

The proposed workshop will seek to draw the implications of the new international and human security paradigms for development policy and research. How can dynamic ...

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Workshop 3: Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty: A Global View

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

Plenary 1: Opening Session: Conceptual perspectives of reform

Location: Auditorium, International Habitat Center

The first plenary offers a conceptual framework for understanding the process of reform from its initiation to implementation.

Knowlede Fair

Location: Silver Oak Lawns

The Knowledge Fair is designed to be a forum for research, policy, and development institutes (non-profit organizations only) to showcase their products to their colleagues, ...

Parallel 1.1: Economic Reforms: Policy and Institutions

Location: Gulmohar

Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline ...

Parallel 1.2.: The MDGs and pro-poor policies: What have we learned?

Location: Silver Oak

This session, organized by the United Nations Development Program addressed the question of whether the Millennium Development Goals ...

Parellel 1.3: Poverty, vulnerability and reforms

Location: Casuarina

The aim of this Parallel Session, organized by IPALMO (Institute for Relations between Italy and Africa, Latin America and the Middle East) on behalf of ...

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Parallel 1.4: Political aspects of reform

Location: Jacaranda

This session examined issues related to the politics of reform, particularly, access to information policies, and the role of civil society.

Parallel 1.5: Environmental and social aspects of reform

Location: Magnolia

Economic reforms are being undertaken in several countries of the world with the objective of improving efficiency, leveraging finances and enhancing access.

Plenary Session 2: Global Research Project: Understanding Reform

Location: Auditorium

Understanding Reform is the theme of the second of GDN’s Global Research Projects. The goal of this multidisciplinary project is to understand the successes and ...

Parallel Session 2.1: Privatization and infrastructure reform

Location: Jacaranda

Two different aspects of infrastructure reform were presented in this session. The first presentation assessed the extent of alternative, small-scale infrastructure delivery through micro-providers in Kenya.

Parallel Sessions 2: Sectoral perspectives of reform

The five parallel sessions addressed the theme of Understanding Reform from the perspectives of different sectors and components of an economy.

Parallel Session 2.2: International migration: implications for economic development at origin

Location: Gulmohar

Both international migration and international remittances have grown substantially in the last quarter century. The connections between migration and ...

Chair: Torgny Holmgren

Parallel Session 2.3: Reform in agriculture: country experiences from Asia

Location: Magnolia

Agriculture is the primary sector which the majority of people in developing countries depend on for their livelihood.

Parallel Session 2.4: Knowledge networks for reform

Location: Silver Oak

During the past decade, developments of new information communication technologies have resulted in major reforms in traditional means of knowledge sharing, research networking and engaging ...

Parallel Session 2.5: Practices, policies and perspectives on reform in Africa

Location: Casuarina

This session discussed the current status of research in Africa.  The session examined how research could contribute to African development.

Plenary Session 3: Reform in India

Location: Auditorium

This session focused on the reasons for the successful initiation and implementation of economic reforms in India, and the lessons to be learned from India's experience.

Parallel Sessions 3: Presentations by Medal Finalists

The finalists for the Medals for Outstanding Research on Development Competition 2003 presented their research findings in five parallel sessions.

Parallel Session 3.1: Pro-market reform and the poor

Location: Gulmohar

The papers presented in this session examined the impact of major pro-market reform programs in developing and transition countries on the poor.

Parallel Session 3.2: Agricultural reforms and rural development in the lowest income countries

Location: Silver Oaks

This session discussed the impact of agricultural reforms and rural development on the poor, focusing on the lowest income countries.

Parallel Session 3.3: Reforms, interest groups and civil society

Location: SIlver Oak

This session discussed issues relating to pro-market reforms and the links between the state, civil society and interest groups.

Parallel Session 3.4: Market reforms and the new role of the state

Location: Jacaranda

This session examined the new role of the state in the context of changes and reforms of markets. The reform movement towards a stronger reliance ...

Parallel Session 3.5: Reform, the external environment, and the role of international and regional institutions

Location: Casuarina

This session discussed the role of international and regional institutions in the context of reforms in developing countries.

Parallel Session 4.2.: Economic reforms in South and East Asia: a comparative perspective

Location: Gulmohar

This session compared the experiences of economic reforms in South Asia and East Asia.  South Asia, home to 1.5 billion people, two fifths of them ...

Chair: Siow Yue Chia

Plenary Session 4: Roundtable

Location: Auditorium

Members of civil society—non-governmental organizations, business persons, special interest groups, and the public in general—can and do affect the reform process at all stages.

Parellel Sessions 4: Inter-regional perspectives of reform

Each of the five parallel sessions investigated key aspects and outcomes of reform in the inter-regional context, providing evidence from...

Parallel Session 4.1.: Gradualism versus big bang: what have we learned from ten years of post-communist reforms?

Location: Silver Oak

More than a decade has passed since the collapse of the socialist block set in motion waves of economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe.

Chair: Randall Filer

Parallel Session 4.3: Globalization, employment and poverty

Location: Casuarina

This session discussed the links between globalization, employment and poverty in poor African and Asian states.

Parallel Session 4.4.: Financial market reform: experiences and lessons from Latin America and East Asia

Location: Silver Oak

Financial market reform has been one of the most contentious and problematic issues in developing countries over the last 25 years.

Chair: Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Parallel Session 4.5.: Understanding trade-related reform: the experience of small states

Location: Magnolia

This session examined the impact of trade liberalization on smaller countries, particularly the Pacific states.

Parallel Sessions 5: Global Perspectives of Reform

Five parallel sessions provided a global perspective on Understanding Reform based on the experience and analysis of major international, regional and bilateral agencies.

Parellel Session 5.1.: Impact of economic reform on inequality and poverty

Location: Jacaranda

This session, organized by UNU WIDER, discussed a project undertaken by WIDER to assess the effects of tax-benefit reforms in poor countries across the globe.

Parallel Session 5.2.: Financial reforms in Asia since 1997: lessons and responses

Location: This session, organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) examined the different responses to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Following the financial crisis of 1997, the most affected countries in Asia i.e. Thailand, Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia adopt

This session, organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) examined the different responses to the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Parallel Session 5.3.: World Development Report

Location: Casuarina

This session discussed the 2005 World Development Report, which will be published in September 2004, and will focus on “Improving the investment climate for growth and poverty ...

Parallel Session 5.4: World Economic Outlook

Location: Gulmohar

The session examined global economic prospects, based on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF’s) latest World Economic Outlook (September 2003), updated for recent developments.

Parallel Session 5.5: Gender and economic reforms

Location: Magnolia

The findings from the project, 'Gender Network in South and Southeast Asia' were presented at this session.

Plenary Session 5: Understanding Content Management Systems

Location: Auditorium

The GDNet team is considering deployment of Content Management Systems (CMS) in the next phase of development.

Chair: Gobind Nankani

Plenary Session 7: Policymakers Roundtable

Location: Auditorium

The responsibility for undertaking major economic and political reforms ultimately lies with a country’s policymakers.