Summer Workshop

Summer Workshop
July 6–9 1998

Summary of proceedings

The summer workshop is a WDR tradition, typically taking place in the early stage of the drafting of the Report. It brings together top academics and practitioners to present their findings and exchange views with the team on issues of relevance to the year's WDR.

The proceedings of the 1998 summer workshop will be published in September 1999. Over twenty of the workshop presentations were written up as short papers. Those short papers are currently being edited and readied for publication.

Workshop presentations and discussions were organized in fourteen panels:

1. Financial Regulation from an International Perspective: Rules, Capacity Building, Coordination, and Enforcement. (Speakers: Robert Litan, Brookings Institution; Edward Kane, Boston College; Lawrence White, New York University. Moderator: Gerard Caprio.)

2. Global Environmental Imperatives and Institutions to Assure Sustainability. (Speakers: Richard Cooper, Harvard University; Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK-Postdam Institute; Gernot Klepper, Kiel Institute; Robert Watson, World Bank. Moderator: Ian Johnson, World Bank.)

3. Lessons from the East Asia Crisis: Liberalization and Policy Response. (Speakers: Mark Gertler, New York University; Bruce Greenwald, Columbia Business School; Amar Bhattacharya, World Bank. Moderator: Vinod Thomas, World Bank.)

4. Demographics and Migration: International and Regional Trends. (Speakers: Robert Lucas, Boston University; Paul Demeny, Population Council; Josef Gugler, University of Connecticut. Moderator: Boris Pleskovic, World Bank.)

5. Decentralization: State of the Art and Prognosis for the Coming Decades. (Speakers: Robert Inman, University of Pennsylvania; Charles E. McLure, Stanford University; Jack Donahue, Harvard University. Moderator: Shanta Devarajan, World Bank.)

6. Urban Services: Adequacy, Efficiency, and Financing in the Face of Rising Demands. (Speakers: David Bloom, Harvard University; Nigel Harris, University of London; Ralph Gakenheimer, MIT. Moderator: Gregory K. Ingram, World Bank.)

7. Municipal Governance, Public-Private Partnerships and the Role of the Private Sector. (Speakers: Judith Tendler, MIT; Tim Campbell, World Bank; Keshav Varma, World Bank. Moderator: Penelope Brook Cowen, World Bank.)

8. Patterns of City Growth: Performance and Industrial Structure. (Speakers: J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University; Anthony Venables, London School of Economics; Allen J. Scott, University of California. Moderator: Anthony Pellegrini, World Bank.)

9. Urban Finance: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future. (Speakers: Roy Bahl, Georgia State University; Anthony Reschovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul Smoke, MIT. Moderator: Johannes Linn, World Bank.)

10. Regulating Urban Land Use, Transport, and Other Services: Past Experience and Prospects. (Speakers: Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution; Steve Malpezzi, University of Wisconsin; Remy Prud'homme, University of Paris XII; Fernando Rojan, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Moderator: Christine Kessides, World Bank.)

11. Poverty, Violence and Crime in Cities: Interrelationships between Poverty and Crime, Coping Mechanisms. (Speakers: Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University; François Bourguignon, World Bank; Caroline Moser, World Bank. Moderator: Paul Collier, World Bank.)

12. Promoting Growth and Employment in Cities: What Have Successful Cities Done, What Have Stagnating Cities Done Wrong? (Speakers: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University; Edwin Mills, Northwestern University; Ann Markusen, Rutgers University. Moderator: Shahid Yusuf, World Bank.)

13. Looking Ahead to the 21st Century: Political Economy of Globalization and Decentralization. (Speakers: Robert Gilpin, Princeton University; George McGurn, Boston University; Alan Gelb, World Bank; Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue. Moderator: Masood Ahmed, World Bank.)

14. The Future Course of Trade Liberalization, Trade Agreements, and Regional Trading Arrangements. (Speakers: Jeffrey Frankel, Council of Economic Advisors; Robert Lawrence, Harvard University; Gary Hufbauer, Council on Foreign Relations. Moderator: L. Alan Winters, World Bank.)