ABCDE Washington 2000

The World Bank's 12th Annual Bank Conference on Developement Economics (ABCDE) took place in April 2000, in Washington, D.C. Conference themes included:

• New Developement Thinking
• Crisis and Recovery
• Corporate Governance and Restructuring -- lessons from transision and crisis
• Social Security
• Public and Private Savings

Conference Papers (PDF files)
(Papers are listed in order of presentation:

1. Joseph Stiglitz -Development at the Millennium (28 pages - 312kb)
2. Paul Collier, the World Bank -Consensus Building, Knowledge, and Conditionality (31 pages - 74kb)
3. Dani Rodrik, Harvard University - Development Strategy for the Next Century (42 pages - 91kb)
4. Jan Willem Gunning, Free University, Amsterdam -Rethinking Aid (22 pages - 78kb)
5. Karla Hoff, World Bank -Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: The Modern Theory of Development Traps (58 pages)
6. Jeffrey Sachs -A New Global Consensus on Helping the Poorest of the Poor (10 pages - 102kb)
7. William Easterly, World Bank -Shaken and Stirred: Explaining Growth Volatility (24 pages - 81kb)
8. Ricardo Cabellero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -Creative Destruction in Development: Institutions, Crises, and Reconstruction (40 pages)
9. Eisuke Sakakibara, former Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan -East Asia Crisis—Two Years Later (22 pages)
10. Daniel Lederman, World Bank -Mexico—Five Years After the Crisis (45 pages)
11. Janos Kornai, Harvard University/Collegium Budapest -Ten Years After "The Road to a Free Economy": The Author (29 pages - 73kb)
12. Alexander Dyck, Harvard University -Ownership Structure, Legal Protection, and Corporate Governance (58 pages)
13. Gerard Roland, Universite Libre de Bruxelles -Corporate Governance Systems and Restructuring: The Lessons from the Transition Experience (46 pages - 103kb)
14. Peter R. Orszag, Sebago Associates, Inc. -The Benefits of Flexible Funding: Implications for Pension Reform in an Uncertain World (37 pages)
15. Orazio Attanasio, University College London -Savings Behavior in Developing Countries: Inequality, Demographics, and All That. How Different are Latin America and Southeast Asia (59 pages)
16. Geraint Jones, EBRD, London -State Capture in Transition Economies (43 pages)
17. Ari Kuncoro, University of Indonesia -Devolutionary Reform and Corruption: Micro Observations from Indonesia Xavier Vives, Institut D’Analisi Economica (CSIC) -Imperfect Competition, Risk Taking, and Regulation in Banking (34 pages - 250kb) 
18. Andrew Powell, Central Bank of Argentina -Can Emerging Market Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? (47 pages - 191kb)
19. Giovanni Majnoni and Li-Gang Liu, World Bank -The Role of Rating Agency Assessments in Less Developed Countries: Impact of the New Basel Guidelines (33 pages - 397kb)
20. Judy Dean, Johns Hopkins University -Implications of Trade Liberalization for the Environment (34 pages)
21. Mary Shirley, World Bank -The Politics and Economics of Reforming Urban Water Systems (50 pages - 132kb)
22. Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, World Bank and Lixin Colin Xu, World Bank -The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform (41 pages)
23. Ronald N. Johnson, Montana State University and Gary Libecap, University of Arizona and NBER -Information Distortion and Competitive Remedies in Government Transfer Programs: The Case of Ethanol (55 pages)
24. John Ferejohn, Stanford University -A Political Theory of Federalism (76 pages)
25. Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley -Commitment, Accountability and Responsibility (44 pages)
26. Stuti Khemani, World Bank -Decentralization and Accountability: Are Voters More Vigilant in Local vs. National Elections? (52 pages)
27. Melvin Ayogu, Harvard University -The Political Economy of Infrastructure Investments in Nigeria (39 pages - 451kb)
28. Robin Burgess, London School of Economics -Land Ownership, Nutritional Welfare and Productive Efficiency in Rural China (31 pages - 247kb)
29. Klaus W. Deininger, World Bank, Pedro Olinto, World Bank, and Miet Maertens, KU Leuven -Redistribution, Investment, and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines (39 pages)
30. Michael Carter, University of Wisconsin and Frederic Zimmerman, Stanford University -Can Time and Markets Resolve the Agrarian Question: Macroeconomic Evidence on the Persistence and Costs of Land Ownership Inequality in Latin America (27 pages)
31. Thomas Hertel, Purdue University and Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin, World Bank -Towards a New Round of WTO Negotiations: Issues and Implications for Developing Countries (34 pages - 110kb)
32. Bijit Bora, UNCTAD,Peter Lloyd , University of Melbourne, and Mari Pangestu, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta -Industrial Policy and the WTO (43 pages)
33. Keith Maskus, University of Colorado and Mohamed Lahouel, University of Tunis -Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy in Developing Countries (26 pages - 61kb)