Mobilizing Aid for Trade:Focus on Africa October 2007: Chief Economist John Page gave a presentation at the "Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus on Africa", conference that took place October 1-2, 2007, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The high-level conference was organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in cooperation with the World Bank. View the presentation. Africa's Silk Road Presentations in Australia October 2007: Economic Advisor Harry Broadman gave two presentations in Australia on "Africa's Silk Road". Click here for the presentation given before the "Australia Africa Business Council" in Melbourne. Click here for the presentation given before the "Lowy Institute for International Policy" in Sydney. The Challenges of Shared Growth in Africa: The Gender Dimension
May 2006: Chief Economist John Page gave the Keynote address at the World Bank/IFC-hosted Gender and Economics Training Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. This workshop brought together 60 participants - including many women entrepreneurs from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda - to examine theoretical and practical aspects of gender dimensions to growth and private sector development. The keynote address highlighted the challenges of shared growth in Africa, with particular emphasis on the important gender dimensions of growth. View the presentation. Trade Liberalization and Labor Market in Brazil
April 2006: Senior Economist Jorge Arbache travelled to Rio de Janiero to give a seminar on the effects of trade liberalization on the labor market in Brazil, as part of a seminar on Trade, Inequality, and Poverty, hosted by the Latin American Trade Network. View the presentation.
For and against: Complexities of Legal Empowerment of the Poor
December 13, 2005: Chief Economist John Page spoke at the Conference on New Frontiers of Social Analysis, discussing Legal Empowerment of the Poor. The Chief Economist emphasized not only that formalized legal rights are vital to both economic empowerment and growth for the poor, but also that merely formalizing rights are not adequate. Individuals, particularly women, must be informed of, and able to access and enforce their legal rights in order for legal empowerment to be an effective strategy for poverty reduction and growth.
Football meets Finance
November - December 2005: Lead Economist Delfin Go travelled to South Africa and participated in a two-part economic modeling workshop hosted by South Africa National Treasury (NT) at Kievitskroon, Pretoria. The trip began with a meeting devoted to the economic modeling works undertaken by the Macro team of National Treasury. Since the World Bank helped launch the series a few years ago, National Treasury has organized an annual modeling workshop to present and review various modeling works in progress at NT in order to resolve modeling issues, seek improvement, and map out a work program. Lead Economist Delfin Go gave a presentation on "Future Modeling Plans." After briefly describing the recent history of joint modeling work between National Treasury and the World Bank, he outlined phase two of the technical assistance and joint work on macro-micro links and some of the preliminary results. The workshop launched phase two of the technical assistance work, which will examine issues relating to the integration of the 49-sector CGE model jointly developed by the Bank and National Treasury and the micro-simulation framework derived from the recent household and labor surveys. Issues of integration with a third platform/framework, the macro-econometric model at Treasury, were also discussed. As an application of the macro-micro links, the work will explore the impact of external shocks [as well as alternative policy experiments] on the South African economy, sectors and households. South_Africa_Joint_Modeling_Work_Nov_2005.pdf Delfin also met with authorites to discuss the economic and spatial impacts of the upcoming 2010 World Cup Football championship to be held in South Africa. Below is a revised draft TA plan that incorporates the 2010 Soccer World Cup and possible spatial aspects, to be finalized in discussions with South Africa Authorities. Economic Modeling with South African National Treasury.pdf
The Africa Action Plan: Meeting Africa's Challenges for Development
This powerpoint presentation lays out the objectives and conditions of the Africa Action Plan, outlining why a new development plan for Africa is necessary, and then discussing the Action Plan's Four Primary Pillars: 1)Results Management, 2)Building Capable States and Governance, 3)Increasing Shared Growth, and 4)Leveraging the IDA-14 Partnership. The presentation concludes by examining what this new Action Plan will mean for the World Bank Group. Outlining the Africa Action Plan Powerpoint Presentation
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