Post Doctoral Workshop on Development and the World Bank
May 30-31, 2010 at ABCDE Stockholm, Sweden
Sunday, May 30, 2010Room C3, Clarion Sign
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 14:30Welcome
GARNET Representative/RADRepresentative:Diane Stone, Professor, Politics and International Studies, Warwick University, United Kingdom, and Member of the RAD Network Steering Committee
World Bank Representative :BorisPleskovic, Research Manager, Development Economics, World Bank
14:30 – 15:30Panel 1
Chair:Diane Stone, Professor, Politics and International Studies, Warwick University, United Kingdomand Member of the RAD Network Steering Committee
PhD presenters :
IlknurEginli “World Bank Education Policy: The Impact of World Bank Projects (1997-2007) on Turkey”.
Discussant :Jean-Jacques Dethier, Research Manager, Development Economics, World Bank
Cheng Chen :“The institutional challenges for PPP in China and the role of PPIAF in the World Bank”
Discussant : Alan Gelb, Center for Global Development (CGD)
15:30 – 16:00Coffee
16:00 – 17:00Panel 2
Chair:Torgny Holmgren, Deputy Director-General, Department for Development Policy, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
PhD presenters:
Carmen Apaza“World Bank Government Administrative Accountability Project in Bolivia: Noble Goals, Big Challenges, and Next Steps”
Liam Clegg“The Politics of Accountability in International Organisations: The World Bank and the Reconstruction of Stakeholder Accountability”
Discussant : Cyril Muller, Special Representative to Europe, World Bank
17:00 – 20:30Pre-registration and ABCDE Welcome Reception
Monday, May 31, 2010Room C3, Clarion Sign
09:00-15:30PhD workshop participants free to attend ABCDE
15:30 –15:45Coffee
15:45-16:45PhD Workshop (continued)
Panel 3
Chair : Joyashree Roy, Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, India, and Chair of the RAD Network Steering Committee
PhD presenters :
DorotheeTeichmann :“The World Bank’s role in leveraging finance for climate change mitigation”
Discussant :Isabel Hagbrink, Sr. Communications Officer, Carbon Finance Unit, World Bank
Alexandra Kaasch“Social Policy Prescriptions by the World Bank – Comparing Pensions, Health Systems and Labour Policy”
Discussant :Carol Graham, Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair, The Brookings Institution and College Park Professor, University of Maryland
16:45 – 17:45Panel 4
Chair:Torbjörn Becker, Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics
PhD presenters :
Nicole Maldonado“The World Banks Evolving Concept of Good Governance and its Impact on Human Rights”
Gaoussou Diarra “Assessing the World Bank’s influence on the worldwide diffusion of good governance norms: a bibliometric analysis”
Discussant:Stephen Ndegwa, Lead Specialist, Development Economics, World Bank