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