ABCDE Washington 1999

The World Bank's 11th Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) took place in June 1999, in Washington, D.C. Conference themes included:

• Economic Architecture
• Corporate Governance
• Crime and Violence
• Land Reform
• The Economics of Transition

Keynote Addresses

1. Joseph E. Stiglitz - Whither Reform? Ten Years of the Transition (34 pages - )

Conference Papers (PDF files)

1. Anders Åslund -Why Has Russia’s Economic Transformation Been So Arduous? (59 pages)
2. Abhijit V. Banerjee - Land Reforms: Prospects and Strategies (38 pages)
3. Erik Berglof and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden - The Changing Corporate Governance Paradigm: Implications for Transition and Developing Countries (40 pages)
4. François Bourguignon - Crime, Violence and Inequitable Development (38 pages)
5. Simon Commander, Mark Dutz, and Nicholas Stern - Restructuring in Transition Economies: Ownership, Competition and Regulation (43 pages) 
6. Ann M. Florini - Does the Invisible Hand Need a Transparent Glove? The Politics of Transparency (42 pages)
7. Glenn C. Loury -Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics (41 pages)
8. Yingyi Qian - The Institutional Foundations of China's Market Transition (57 pages)
9. Dani Rodrik and Andres Velasco - Short-Term Capital Flows (45 pages)
10. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amar Bhattacharya - Underpinnings for a Stable and Equitable Global Financial System: From Old Debates to a New Paradigm (40 pages)
11. Charles Wyplosz - Ten Years of Transformation: Macroeconomic Lessons (44 pages)

Workshops

1. Alessandra Casella -Informational Barriers to Trade: The Role of Networks (9 pages)
2. Alessandra Casella and James E. Rauch - Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade (44 pages)
3. Paul Collier and David Dollar - Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction (27 pages)
4. Donald Cox - Informal Networks, Institutions and the "Soap Opera" Constraint (18 pages)
5. J. Michael Finger and Ludger Schuknecht - Market Access Advances and Retreats Since the Uruguay Round Agreement (52 pages)
6. Patrick Guillaumont and Lisa Chauvet - Aid and Performance: A Reassessment (28 pages)
7. James Levinson, Steven Berry, Jed Friedman - Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Household Evidence (37 pages)
8. J. Michael Orszag, Peter R. Orszag, Denis J. Snower, and Joseph E. Stiglitz - The Impact of Individual Accounts: Piecemeal vs. Comprehensive Approaches (18 pages)
9. James E. Rauch and Alessandra Casella - Overcoming Informational Barriers to International Resource Allocation: Prices and Group Ties (47 pages)
10. Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel - Latin America's Pension Revolution: A Review of Approaches and Experience (41 pages)
11. Brent Sohngen - The Effectiveness of Forest Carbon Sequestration Strategies with System-Wide Adjustments (25 pages)
12. Michael Toman - Prices, Quantities, Timing and Participation in Greenhouse Gas Control Policy (14 pages)