Parallel Session 1: Productive Transformation for Enhancing Productivity – Latin American and African highlights (CAF and Selected Articles- Conference Call for Papers)
18 June, 2014 [11:30 – 13:00]
Fernando Alvarez (CAF), Enhancing Productivity in Latin America: From Subsistence to Transformational Entrepreneurship
Hernán Ruffo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), Mentoring Entrepreneurship: the Case of "Buenos Aires Emprende"
Joseph Mawejje (EPRC), Tax Evasion and the Business Environment in Uganda
Youssouf Kiendrebeogo (CERDI), Export Activity and Productivity: Further Evidence
Parallel Session 5: Japanese Award for the Most Innovative Development Project
18 June, 2014 [11:30 – 13:00]
C.D.Singh (SOLS 24/7-GDI), Education for All
Evans Wadongo (Sustainable Development for all), Use Solar, Save Lives Program
Parallel Session 2: Falling Behind and Catching Up in Southeast Europe (wiiw)
18 June, 2014 [11:30 – 13:00]
Roman Römisch (wiiw), Zipf’s Law and Agglomeration Economies
Parallel Session 7: Barriers to Structural Transformation in North Africa (ERF)
18 June, 2014 [17:30 – 19:00]
Ahmed Galal (ERF), The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in North Africa
Hoda Selim (ERF), Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy in North Africa
Parallel Session 8: Trade, Financial Flows and Economic Growth Nexus in Africa (Selected Articles - Conference Call for Papers)
18 June, 2014 [17:30 – 19:00]
Florence Barugahara (University of Leicester), Main and Interaction Effects of Inflation Level and Volatility on Economic Growth
Kaouthar Gazdar (University of Sousse) & Hajer Kratou (University of Aberystwyth),Institutions, Financial development and the Remittances - Growth Nexus in Africa
Patricia W. Aidam (University of Ghana), Export Earnings Instability and Investment in Ghana, 1981 To 2011
Sera Rose Gondwe (Bunda College Lilongwe University), Are Socially Connected Firms More Likely to Get Credit from Commercial Banks? A Case of Micro, Small and Medium Entreprises in Malawi
Parallel Session 10: Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development
18 June, 2014 [17:30 – 19:00]
Kanchana Wickramasinghe (IPS), Demand for Climate Insurance in Sri Lanka: Comparative Study of Dry Zone Rain-fed Farmers and Coastal Fishers
Fredu Nega (HESPI), Research Proposal On: Small and Medium Enterprises Access to Finance in Ethiopia: A Synthesis of Supply and Demand
Nastaran Simarasl (University of Tennessee), Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Plenary 3: Determinants of Growth, Industrial and Trade Policies
19 June, 2014 [8:30 - 10:00]
Olayinka Idowu Kareem (A&M finalist), Restrictive Trade Policies as Hurdle to Pass for Africa: Evidence from the European Union’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)
Simplice Asongu (AGDI), Taxation, Foreign Aid and Political Governance: Figures to the Facts of a Celebrated Literature
Plenary 4: Environmental Sustainability, Management of Natural Resources and Structural Transformation
19 June, 2014 [10:30 - 12:00]
Bibhu Prasad Nayak & Veena Aggarwal (TERI), Trust and Cooperation among Urban Poor for Transition to Cleaner and Modern Cooking Fuel
David Anaafo (University of Tasmania), Land Reforms and Land Rights Change: An Ethnographic Case Study of Land Stressed Groups in the Nkoranza South Municipality, Ghana
Plenary 5: Political, Institutional and Governance Transformations
19 June, 2014 [12:00 – 13:30]
Haroon Bhorat (University of Cape Town), Do Industrial Disputes Reduce Employment? Evidence from South Africa
Neetu Choudhary (ANSISS), Malnutrition and Mortality in Sub Saharan Africa and India
Simplice Asongu (AGDI), Revolution Empirics: Predicting the Arab Spring
Parallel Session 12: Building Resilience Beyond 2015 (JICA and EADN)
19 June, 2014 [16:00 – 17:30]
Danilo C. Israel (PIDS/EADN), Natural Disasters and Related Socioeconomic and Policy Studies in the Philippines
Daniel P. Aldrich (Purdue University), Building Resilience - Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
Go Shimada (JICA-RI), Has Social Capital Promoted Economic Reconstruction Since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake? - A Quantitative Study of Social Capital in the Tertiary Sector of Kobe
Parallel Session 13: Telling Facts from Myths in African Agriculture (The World Bank)
19 June, 2014 [16:00 – 17:30]
Luc Christiaensen (The World Bank), Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
Parallel Session 14: Internal Migration Dynamics in Africa and Asia: Implications for Poverty Reduction and Development (CMS)
19 June, 2014 [16:00 – 17:30]
George Owusu (ISSER/ University of Ghana), Can Rural-Urban Migration Contribute To Poverty Reduction? Evidence From Ghana
John O. Oucho (AMADPOC), Changing Perspectives of Internal Migration in Eastern Africa
L. Alan Winters CB (University of Sussex), Migration in the Time of Crisis: Evidence on Its Effectiveness from Indonesia
Parallel Session 15: Trade, Structural Transformation and Sustained Poverty Reduction in Africa
20 June, 2014 [11:00 - 12:30]
Abebe Shimeles (AfDB), Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin (ACET / CEPII), Agricultural Prices, Household Wellbeing and Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Agricultural Supply Chains and Household Constraints in ECOWAS countries
Parallel Session 16: Structural Transformation in Pacific Island Countries: Challenges to Eradicating Poverty and Inequality (ODN)
20 June, 2014 [11:00 - 12:30]
Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka (University of the South Pacific), Islands In Transition - Intervention & Post-Conflict Development in Solomon Islands
Neelesh Gounder (University of the South Pacific), Structural Transformations in Pacific Island Countries: Challenges and Opportunities to Eradicating Poverty and Inequality
Parallel Session 17: Gender, Democracy and Development: Challenges and Opportunities (Selected Articles-Conference Call for Papers)
20 June, 2014 [11:00 - 12:30]
Belinda Maswikwa (HSRC), Minimum Marriage Age Laws, Child Marriage Rates and Cumulative Fertility: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Carolyn Chisadza (University of Pretoria), Is Democracy Eluding sub-Saharan Africa?
Miron Tequame (University of Namur), Coping with Social Transformation: Sex Composition of Older Siblings and Teen-Pregnancy in Central Africa.
Parallel Session 18: Growth Drivers in Selected Sub-Saharan Africa Regions – The Roles of Capital Flight and Access to Finance and Innovation (AERC)
20 June, 2014 [11:00 - 12:30]
Ameth Saloum Ndiaye (University of Dakar), Is Capital Flight Decisive in Explaining Economic Growth Performance in the African Franc Zone?
Parallel Session 19: Education - A Prerequisite to Development: Evidence from Africa (BREAD and Selected Articles-Conference Call for Papers)
20 June, 2014 [14:00 - 15:30]
Kehinde F. Ajayi (Boston University), Does School Quality Improve Student Performance? New Evidence from Ghana
Susan Kavuma (Makerere University), Private Returns to Education for the Wage-employees and Self-Employed in Uganda
Parallel Session 21: Risk and Africa's Structural Transformation (EUDN)
20 June, 2014 [14:00 - 15:30]
Alexandros Sarris (University of Athens), Food commodity Price Volatility and Policy in Light of Africa’s Agricultural Transformation
Luc Christiaensen (The World Bank), The End of Seasonality? New Insights from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Parallel Session 22: Regional Trade Integration: Perspectives from Asia and Africa (SANEI and Selected Articles-Conference Call for Papers)
20 June, 2014 [14:00 - 15:30]
Bishnu Dev Pant (IIDS), Regional Cooperation and Integration in South Asia: Nepal Perspective
Mbouandi Mouhamed (Université de Yaoundé II-Cameroun), Intégration Par Le Marché Cas Des Pays De La Ceeac
Nasir Iqbal (PIDE), Pakistan’s Imports Dependency and Regional Integration