Welcome Addresses Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Georges Serre, Deputy Director-General of Global Affairs, Development and Partnerships, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France Delphine D'Amarzit, Director, Multilateral Affairs and Development, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, France Justin Yifu Lin, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
09:45 – 10:45
Keynote Address 1: Growth-Mediated Development Chair:Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD Speaker: Amartya Sen, Harvard University, USA
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee
1:00 – 12:30
Plenary Session 1: Measuring Inequality of Opportunities Chair:Augustin Fosu, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Speakers:John Roemer, Yale University, USA Vito Peragine, University of Bari, Italy Discussants:Marc Fleurbaey, Université Paris Descartes, France; Francisco Ferreira, World Bank
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Plenary Session 2: Structural Transformation, Employment Creation and Labour Regulation Chair:Kalpana Kochhar, World Bank Speakers:John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, USA Francis Teal, Oxford University, UK Discussants:Cai Fang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; Adriana Kugler, Georgetown University, USA
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee
15:45 – 17:30
Parallel Sessions – Set I For detailed information about this session, go to Parallel I in Papers and Proceedings
18:30 – 21:00
Dinner
tuesday, May 31, 2011
09:30 – 10:30
Keynote Address 2: Inequality and Social Policy: The Employment Connection Chair: Christian Masset, Director General of Global Affairs, Development and Partnership, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France Speaker:Andrés Velasco, Harvard University, USA
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee
10:45 – 12:15
Plenary Session 3: Human Capital Formation, Training and Youth Chair:Stefano Scarpetta, OECD Speakers: Janet Currie, Columbia University, USA Rodrigo Soares, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Discussants:Pedro Carneiro, University College London, UK; Yaw Nyarko, New York University, USA
12:15 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 14:45
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3: Revisiting Labour and Product Market Reforms in France Chair:Carlos Braga, World Bank Speaker:Francis Kramarz, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), France
14:45 – 16:15
Plenary Session 4: Social Protection, Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Chair:Serge Tomasi, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France Speakers:Stefan Dercon, Oxford University, UK; Sudarno Sumarto, The SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia Discussants:Alejandro Gaviria, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Giorgia Giovannetti, University of Florence, Italy
16:15 – 16:30
Coffee
16:30 – 18:15
Parallel Sessions – Set II For detailed information about this session, go to Parallel II in Papers and Proceedings
wednesday, June 1, 2011
09:00 – 10:45
Parallel Sessions – Set III For detailed information about this session, go to Parallel III in Papers and Proceedings
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee
11:00 – 12:00
Keynote Address 4: Factor Accumulation, Culture and Institutions: Where Do We Stand? Chair:Ariel Fiszbein, World Bank Speakers:Daniel Cohen, Paris School of Economics (PSE), France
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch and Essay Competition Awards
13:30 – 15:00
Plenary Session 5: Gender Equity and Development Chair:John Martin, OECD Speakers:Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University, USA; Raquel Fernández, New York University, USA Discussants:Pramila Krishnan, Cambridge University, UK; Ana Revenga, World Bank
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee
15:30 – 17:00
Roundtable: Democratizing Development Economics Moderator:Stéphanie Antoine, FRANCE 24 Panelists:Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA; Martine Durand, Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics, OECD; Kyung Wook Hur, Korean Ambassador to the OECD; Mustapha K. Nabli, Governor, Central Bank of Tunisia; Désiré Vencatachellum, Director of the Development Research Department, African Development Bank (AfDB), Martin Ravallion, Director, Development Research Group, World Bank
17:00 – 17:15
CLOSING REMARKS Jon Lomøy, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD Henri de Raincourt, Minister of Co-operation, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France Benoît Coeuré, Director of the Treasury, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry Ann Harrison, Director, Development Policy, World Bank
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