Programme: 'Growth, poverty reduction and human development in Africa' CSAE Conference 2004
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Discussants and Chairs: Please note that we are allowing 15-20 minutes for each presentation and 5 minutes for discussant response, which will leave at least half an hour for general discussion.
Key to tracks: (a) - Agrarian; (f) - Firms; (h) - Human capital; (m) - Macro; (p) - Poverty; (r) - Risk
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Session |
Session Tracks and Titles |
Venue |
Sunday 21 March |
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12:00-13:45 |
Registration |
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Bernard Sunley Building Foyer |
14:00-16:00 |
Growth, and international issues (f) |
See session details below |
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16:00-16:30 |
Tea |
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Bernard Sunley Building Foyer |
16:30-18:30 |
Agrarian issues (a) |
See session details below |
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19:00-20:30 |
Dinner |
Keynote Speech: "Issues pertaining to health and
HIV in sub-Saharan Africa" |
St Catherine's College Dining Hall |
Monday 22 March |
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08:30-10:30 |
Panel and time-series analysis of growth (f) |
See session details below |
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10:00-11:00 |
Poster Session |
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Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | Bernard Sunley Building Foyer | |
11:00-13:00 |
Child labour and welfare (a) Firms and manufacturing (f) Access to health care and human capital development (h) Taxation and decentralization (m) Poverty dynamics (p) Insurance, networks, and the family (r) |
See session details below |
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13:05-14:00 |
Lunch |
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St Catherine's College Dining Hall |
14:00-16:00 |
Spatial issues and international trade (a) |
See session details below |
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16:00-16:30 |
Tea |
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Bernard Sunley Building Foyer |
16:30-18:30 |
Panel Session |
"Trust, government and markets" |
Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre |
Session One
1(f) Growth and international issues
Venue: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: S McDonald
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
J Kweka |
Tourism and the economy of Tanzania: A CGE analysis |
S McDonald | |
R Burger, S du Plessis |
Examining explanations for the African dummy: A BACE approach |
JJ Quinn | |
K Gyimah-Brempong, JA Karikari |
How will Africa countries fare under US reforms of international settlement rates? |
JJ Quinn | |
WA Naudé, A Saayman |
The determinants of tourist arrivals in Africa: A panel data regression analysis |
S McDonald |
1(h) The economics of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from South Africa
Venue: Bernard Sunley room D
Chair: F Booysen.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
S Freire |
HIV/AIDS, funeral costs and saving behaviour: Theory and evidence from South Africa |
D de Walque | |
F Booysen |
Poverty, HIV/AIDS-related Morbidity and Mortality, and Social Safety
Nets: Evidence from the Free State Province |
S van der Berg | |
F Marzo |
The impact of HIV/AIDS on chronic and transient poverty |
D de Walque |
1(m) The macroeconomic effects of aid
Venue: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: O Morrissey
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
M Opoku-Afari, O Morrissey, T Lloyd |
Real Exchange Rate Response to Aid Inflows: A Dynamic Analysis for Ghana |
F Teal | |
B Ouattara |
Aid inflows and domestic savings in Cote d'Ivoire |
J Levin | |
D M`Amanja O Morrissey |
Fiscal aggregates, aid and growth in Kenya: A Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Analysis |
F Teal | |
C Adam, D Bevan |
Aid, growth and income distribution in the presence of public and private spillovers. |
O Morrissey |
1(p) Poverty and welfare
Venue: Bernard Sunley room A
Chair: G Kingdon.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
A Dabalen, S Paternostro, G Pierre |
The returns to participation in the non-farm sector in rural Rwanda |
G Kingdon | |
R Razafindralambo, B Minten |
Poverty and household water demand |
J Kühl | |
C Muller, S Bibi |
Focused targeting against poverty |
G Kingdon |
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N Pouw |
Food priorities and poverty in Uganda |
J Kühl |
1(r) Shocks and welfare
Venue: Bernard Sunley room C
Chair: A Kedir.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
T Mogues |
Shocks, Livestock Asset Dynamics and Social Capital in Ethiopia |
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T S Jayne, T Yamano |
Measuring the impacts of prime-age adult mortality on rural households in Kenya |
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X Zhang |
Security is like oxygen: Evidence from income dynamics in Uganda |
Session Two
2(a) Agrarian institutions
Venue: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: U Osili.
Authors (Presenters in bold)Kathleen Beegle |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
J-P Platteau |
Heterogeneous loyalties and collective action: Micro-evidence from Senegal |
U Osili | |
M Vigneri, F Teal |
Production changes in Ghana cocoa farming households under market reforms |
K Leonard | |
M Tikabo |
Factor market imperfections and the land rental market in the highlands of Eritrea: Theory and evidence |
K Leonard | |
T Bernard, E Sadoulet, A de Janvry |
Social Resistance to Institutional Change: Explaining the Emergence of Differentiating Organizations in Rural Senegal |
U Osili |
2(f) Credit and finance
Venue: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: W Naudé.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
J Habyarimana |
The benefits of banking relationships: Evidence from Uganda`s banking crisis |
M Söderbom | |
P Mpuga |
Demand for credit in rural Uganda: Who cares for agricultural producers? |
W Naudé | |
S Jain, M Raturi |
Ethnic networks and the financing of investment: Theory and evidence from Kenyan firms |
M Söderbom | |
M Pagura |
Examining client exit in microfinance: A conceptual model and empirical results in a Malian setting |
W Naudé |
2(h) HIV/AIDS in Africa
Venue: Bernard Sunley room D
Chair: M Gersovitz.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
A Bhargava |
AIDS epidemic and the psychological well-being and school participation of Ethiopian orphans |
F Booysen |
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S McDonald, S Dixon, J Roberts |
AIDS in Botswana: Evaluating the general equilibrium implications of healthcare interventions |
O Morrissey | |
D de Walque |
How does the impact of an HIV/AIDS information campaign vary with educational attainment? Evidence from rural Uganda |
F Booysen |
2(m) Growth and public spending
Venue: Bernard Sunley room C
Chair: T Owens.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
O Olsson |
Institutional investment and growth in post-independence Africa |
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CG Tsangarides, D Ghura, CA Leite |
Is growth enough? Macroeconomic policy and poverty reduction |
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B F Aka |
Fiscal adjustment, poverty, inequality and welfare in Côte d'Ivoire: A CGE model analysis |
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H Lofgren, S Robinson |
Public spending, growth, and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic general equilibrium analysis (Revised May 21,2004) |
2(p) Rural poverty, isolation, and the environment
Venue: Bernard Sunley room A
Chair: K Simler.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
S Elsheikh Abdelrhman |
Tenant households and poverty in the Gezira irrigated area, Sudan: Analysis and implications |
C Muller | |
D Gbetnkom |
Deforestation in Cameroon and poverty in the rural zone |
C Muller | |
R Vargas Hill, M Fafchamps |
Selling at the farm Gate or travelling to market |
C Vermeersch | |
S Ambec, L Hotte |
On the redistributive impacts of privatizing a natural resource under imperfect enforcement |
C Vermeersch |
2(r) Risk and vulnerability
Venue: Mary Sunley Discussion Room
Chair: D Gollin.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
C Doss, J McPeak, C Barrett |
Perceptions of risk within pastoralist households in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia |
M Fafchamps | |
J Kühl |
Disaggregating household vulnerability – analyzing fluctuations in consumption using a simulation approach |
D Gollin | |
H Kazianga, C Udry |
Consumption smoothing and livestock in West Africa |
D Gollin | |
A Kedir, S Girma |
Uncovering food security through the estimation of quadratic food engel curves with measurement error: Evidence from a budget survey |
M Fafchamps |
Session Three
3(f) Panel and time-series analysis of growth
Venue: Bernard Sunley room A
Chair: J-C Berthelemy.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
R Okoh |
Global integration and the growth of Nigeria's non-oil exports |
N Rankin | |
M Alsop, F Teal |
Income, productivity and inequality: Some new evidence |
S Freire | |
M A Rakotoarisoa, S Henneberry, S Shapouri |
The impacts of human capital accumulation and allocation on manufacturing value-added in selected African countries |
S Freire | |
N Ousmanou |
Exports and economics growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there a connection? |
N Rankin |
3(m) The policy environment for development
Venue: Bernard Sunley room D
Chair: C Adam.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
J Aron, J Muellbauer |
Forecasting the sub-components of the consumer price index in South Africa |
C Bowdler | |
M Aziakpono |
Financial intermediation and economic growth in economic integration: The case of SACU |
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J Bennett, S Estrin |
Private provision of basic infrastructure in developing economies |
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| A Hoeffler, P Collier | Murder by Numbers: Socio-Economic Determinants of Homicide and Civil War | PDF, 101kB |
3(p) The measurement of poverty
Venue: Bernard Sunley room C
Chair: S Younger.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
K Simler, S Harrower, C Massingerela |
Estimating poverty indices using simple indicator surveys |
S Younger | |
S Bibi |
Comparing multidimensional poverty between Egypt and Tunisia |
S Younger |
3(r) Crime and insecurity
Venue: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: L Hotte.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
N Powdthavee |
Unhappiness and crime: Evidence from South Africa |
S Pezzini | |
M Fafchamps, B Minten |
Crime, Poverty, and Isolation: Evidence from Madagascar |
M Tenikue | |
L Hotte, F Valognes, T van Ypersele |
Property crime with private protection: A market-for-offenses approach |
J-P Azam | |
G Demonbynes, B Ozler |
Crime and local inequality in South Africa |
A Hoeffler |
Session Four
4(a) Child labour and welfare
Venue: Mary Sunley Discussion Room
Chair: C Doss.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
C Dumas |
Why do parents make their children work? |
C Doss | |
K Beegle, R Dehejia, R Gatti |
Child labour, crop shocks, and credit constraints |
C Doss | |
I Aomar, M Sandbaek |
Micro econometric analysis of child's labour determinants in Morocco and the extent of non governmental organisations (ONG) involvement in non-formal education |
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4(f) Firms and manufacturing
Venue: Bernard Sunley room C
Chair: S Dercon.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
B Minten, K Sander |
Determinants of success in illegal trade |
S Dercon |
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G Frazer |
Which Firms Die?: A Look at Exit from Manufacturing in Ghana |
S Dercon | |
M Söderbom |
Survival and success among African manufacturing firms |
A Kedir | |
A Mbaye |
An industry level analysis of manufacturing productivity in Senegal |
A Kedir | - |
4(h) Access to health care and human capital development
Venue: Bernard Sunley room D
Chair: G Kingdon.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
T Osborne |
Health and "poverty traps" in rural developing economies |
C Calvo | |
M Frölich, K Michaelowa |
School textbooks and peer effects: Efficient allocation of textbooks |
P Serneels |
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K Leonard, D H Mariam |
Learning about unobservable quality: Empirical evidence from choice of health facilities in Tanzania |
P Serneels | |
J N Binam |
Estimating the willingness to pay for community health prepayment schemes in rural area: A case study of the use of contingent valuation surveys in central Cameroon |
C Calvo |
4(m) Taxation and decentralization
Venue: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: F Teal.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
I Faye |
Local governance and the provision of public goods: Improving the impact of decentralization on local participation and poverty in rural Uganda |
O Olsson | |
D Gollin |
Should governments finance social spending through taxes on large firms? Evidence from Ghana |
O Olsson | |
B Gauthier, J-P Azam, J Goyette |
The effects of fiscal policy and corruption control mechanisms on firm growth and social welfare: Theory and evidence |
O Olsson |
4(p) Poverty dynamics
Venue: Bernard Sunley room A
Chair: R Vargas Hill.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
R Burger, S van der Berg, S Nieftagodien |
Consumption patterns of South Africa’s rising black middle-class: Correcting for measurement errors |
R Vargas Hill | |
B Alayande |
A quantitative and quantitative assessment of vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria |
T Owens | |
F M Baye |
Non-parametric estimates of poverty lines: Measuring rural-urban contributions to poverty changes in Cameroon |
TOwens | |
S Younger |
Growth and poverty reduction in Uganda, 1992-1999: A multidimensional analysis of changes in living standards |
R Vargas Hill |
4(r) Insurance, networks, and the family
Venue: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: T Bold.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
Z Wahhaj |
Testing a theory of limited insurance among couples in Southern Ghana |
S Ambec | |
D Mather, C Donovan, M Weber, H Marrule |
Household responses to prime age adult mortality in rural Mozambique: Implications for HIV/AIDS mitigation efforts and rural economic development policies |
T Bold | |
E Sciubba, P Krishnan |
Endogenous network formation and informal institutions in rural economies |
S Ambec |
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M Dekker |
Risk sharing in rural Zimbabwe: An empirical analysis of endogenous network formation |
T Bold |
Session Five
5(a) Spatial issues and international trade
Venue: Mary Sunley Discussion Room
Chair: K Gyimah-Brempong.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
C Sdralevich, M Piazza |
Trade capacity and product differentiation in export diversification strategies for SSA countries |
H Lofgren | |
WA Naudé, T Gries |
The economic geography and determinants of manufacturing exports from South Africa |
M Alsop | |
W A Naudé, W Krugell |
The spatial dimensions of economic growth in Africa: The case of sub-national convergence or divergence in South Africa |
M Alsop | |
G Niyongabo |
Trade openness, growth and divergence in sub- Saharan Africa |
H Lofgren |
5(f) Labour and demographic issues
Venue: Bernard Sunley room C
Chair: F Teal.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
P Serneels, A Barr |
Wages and reciprocity in the workplace |
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K Cornwell, B Inder |
Unemployment and migration in South Africa: When motivation surpasses the theory |
F Teal | |
U O Osili, B T Long |
Universal education and fertility: A Nigerian experiment |
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A B Aromolaran |
Female schooling, non-market productivity, and labor market participation in Nigeria |
F Teal |
5(h) Access to education
Venue: Bernard Sunley room D
Chair: M Söderbom.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
D Evans, E Miguel |
Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis |
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J-C Berthelemy |
To what extent are African education policies pro-poor? |
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A Bedi |
Attending school, two "Rs" and child work in rural Ethiopia |
P Krishnan | |
S Gormly, K Swinnerton |
The effect of adult returns to schooling on children’s school enrolment in South Africa |
P Krishnan |
5(m) Corruption and governance
Venue: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: J Robinson.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
S Khemani |
Local government accountability of basic services in Nigeria |
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JJ Quinn |
The effects of majority state ownership of industry or mining on corruption: A cross-regional comparison |
L Hotte | |
L Wantchekon |
Ethnicity, gender, and demand for public goods: Experimental evidence from Benin |
L Hotte | |
J Svensson, R Reinikka |
The power of information: Evidence from a newspaper campaign to reduce capture |
5(p) Growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia
Venue: Bernard Sunley room A
Chair: T Osborne.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
L Christiansen, M Ravillon (B Ozler) |
Chronically poor areas of Ethiopia: Is resettlement the answer? |
T Osborne |
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B Kebede |
Administrative allocation and distribution of land in Ethiopia: 1995-97 |
T Osborne | |
S Dercon |
Agriculture, growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia |
J Habyarimana |
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5(r) Subjective well-being
Venue: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Chair: F Roubaud.
Authors (Presenters in bold) |
Paper title |
Discussant | File available |
M Razafindrakoto, F Roubaud |
Subjective perception of poverty in urban sub-saharan Africa |
F Stewart |
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J Herrera, M Razafindrakoto, F Roubaud |
A comparative analysis of the determinants of subjective welfare. The case of Madagascar and Peru |
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M Lokshin, N Umapathi, S Paternostro |
Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country: Madagascar 2001 |
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G Kingdon, J Knight |
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society |
F Stewart |
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