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Escaping Poverty Traps:
Connecting the Chronically Poor to Economic Growth
February 26-27, 2009
J.W. Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C.
Last
updated February 18, 2009
| Day One - February 26, 2009 |
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Plenary Session 9-9:30 a.m.
Chairs: Michael Carter and Andrew Shepherd, ODI
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| Welcome and Goals for Conference |
William Hammink,
Acting Assistant Administrator, USAID |
| Plenary Session 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Assessing Chronic Poverty
Chair: Christopher
Delgado, World Bank |
Chronic Poverty:
Extent, Heterogeneity and Solutions
[abstract] |
Andrew Shepherd, Director,
Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Andy McKay, Chronic Poverty Research
Centre |
Why Are There So Many
Poor People in Africa and South Asia?
[abstract]
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Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief
Economist for Africa, World Bank |
| Discussant |
Michael Carter, University of
Wisconsin |
| Coffee Break 11:00-11:15 a.m. |
| Plenary Session 11:15 a.m.-12:15
p.m. |
How,
Where and When Agriculture Can Be Used to Address Chronic Poverty
Chair: Mike
Lurie, US Department of State |
| Affordable Food for All |
Josette Lewis, Director USAID Office of Agriculture |
Including the Productive
Poor in Agricultural Development
[abstract]
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Cheryl Morden, International
Fund for Agricultural Development |
| Discussant |
Thomas Jayne, Michigan State |
Lunch 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Alonzo
Fulgham, Acting Administrator USAID
Speaker: The Honorable Richard
G. Lugar, US Senator: "Chronic Poverty and Global Food Security" |
| Plenary Session 2-3:30 p.m. |
Connecting the Chronically Poor to the
Agricultural Growth:
The BASIS Pilot Project Agenda
Chair: Timothy
Mahoney, Oxfam America |
Flexible Response to Food
Insecurity: Food Aid Programming and Impact in a New Era
[abstract and concept
note]
Background material: [Food
security response analysis] |
Chris Barrett, Cornell University |
Matching Financial with Technological
Innovations in Southern Africa
[abstract] |
Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
Altering Poverty Dynamics
with Index Insurance in Northern Kenya
[abstract
and concept note]
Background
material: [Details
on insurance design] |
Michael Carter, University of
Wisconsin |
| Discussants |
Arlene Mitchell, Gates Foundation
David Nevill, Syngenta Foundation |
| Coffee Break 3:30-3:45 p.m. |
| Plenary Session 3:45-5:15 p.m. |
Poverty Dynamics and Growth:
What Do We Know?
Chair: Michael
Carter, University of Wisconsin |
Poverty Traps and Structural
Poverty in South Africa
[paper]
[abstract] |
Ingrid Woolard, University
of Cape Town (work with J. May) |
Determinants and Consequences
of Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Nepal
[paper] [abstract] |
Saurav Bhatta, Open Learning
Exchange Nepal, and University of Illinois at Chicago (work
with S. Sharma) |
Parallel Realities
in Rural Bangladesh: Exploring Poverty Dynamics Using Mixed
Methods
[paper] [abstract] |
Peter Davis, University of Bath
Bob Baulch, CPRC |
Food Poverty Dynamics
in Burkina Faso: An Analysis Based on Agricultural Data
[paper] [abstract] |
Andy McKay, Chronic Poverty Research
Centre (work by S. Kaboré, C. Wetta and F. Zida) |
| Discussants |
William Wallace, World Bank, Jakarta
John Hoddinott, International
Food Policy Research Institute |
| Book Launch and Reception: 5:30-7:00 p.m. |
| Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
(Oxford University Press) |
Reception sponsored by Oxford University Press [to be confirmed] |
| Day Two - February 27, 2009 |
| Plenary Session 8:45-9:00 a.m. |
Summary of Day 1 and Introduction to Day 2
Michael Carter,
University of Wisconsin and Lena Heron, USAID |
| Plenary Session 9:00-10:30 a.m. |
Asset Transfers and Cargo Nets
Chair: Brad
Barham, University of Wisconsin |
Escaping Poverty Traps -
Connecting the Chronically Poor to Economic Growth
[paper]
[abstract] |
David Hulme, University of Manchester |
Poverty and Land Ownership
in South Africa
[paper] |
Malcolm Keswell, University
of Cape Town (with M. Carter and
K. Deininger) |
Land Reform and Human Capital Accumulation: Household Level
Evidence from West Bengal [abstract]
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Klaus Deininger, World Bank
(with S. Jin) |
| Discussants |
Admos Chinowu, University of Manchester
Jolyne Sanjak, Millennium Challenge
Corporation |
| Coffee Break: 10:30-10:45 a.m. |
| Parallel Sessions 10:45 a.m.–12:15
p.m. |
Interrupting the Intergenerational Transmission (IGT) of Poverty
Chair: Andy
McKay, Chronic Poverty Research Centre |
Adverse Incorporation and Social Exclusion:
Why thinking in these terms is central to tackling chronic poverty
[background note]
Chair: Paul
Francis, World Bank |
Conflict
and IGT of Poverty in Northern Uganda
[abstract] |
Challenging the Politics of Exclusion
in Uganda? The Case of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund
[abstract] |
| Kate Bird,
Overseas Development Institute (work with K.
Higgins) |
Frederick
Golooba-Mutebi, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda,
and Sam Hickey, University of Manchester |
| Inheritance and IGT of Poverty in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Considerations [abstract] |
How
Not to Connect the Poor to Markets: Adverse Incorporation and
Agrarian Policy in South Africa
[paper] |
| Elizabeth Cooper,
University of Oxford |
Andries
du Toit, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape |
The
Impact of Mothers’ Intellectual Human Capital and Long-run Nutritional
Status on Child Human Capital Outcomes in Guatemala
[abstract] |
DfID
and Social Exclusion: The Use and Otherwise of a Concept in
International Aid
[abstract]
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| Agnes
Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute
(work with J. Behrman) |
Andrew
Shepherd, Chronic Poverty Research Centre (work by
A. de Haan) |
| Discussant: Gáspár
Fajth, UNICEF |
Discussant: Andrew
Norton, World Bank |
Lunch 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Chair:
Gene Kahn,
General Mills
Speaker: John Mellor “Agriculture and Economic Growth” |
| Plenary Session 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Incorporating the Productive
Poor into Markets
Chair: Lena
Heron, USAID |
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Making
Value Chains Work for the Poor
[abstract] |
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Access
to Local and National Policy Processes
[abstract] |
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| Discussant |
Natalie DiNicola, Monsanto
International Partnership for Development |
| Plenary Session 2:30–4:00 p.m. |
Social Protection
Chair: Susan
Bradley, USAID |
Work and Welfare in South
Africa: The Relationship between Social Grants and Labour Market
Activity
[abstract] |
Rebecca Surender, University
of Oxford (work with M. Noble; P. Ntshongwana, G. Wright)
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Political Dynamics
in Social Protection in Uganda: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges
[abstract] |
Charles Lwanga-Ntale,
Development Research and Training, Uganda |
Household Dynamics, Chronic
Poverty and Social Protection in Indonesia
[abstract] |
Asep Suryahadi, SMERU Research Institute,
Jakarta |
| Ethiopia's Productive
Social Safety Net |
John Hoddinott, International
Food Policy Research Institute |
| Discussants |
Carlo del Ninno, World
Bank
Armando Barrientos, University
of Manchester |
| Plenary Session Roundtable: 4:00-5:00
p.m. |
Formulating a Policy Agenda to Address Chronic Poverty
Participants include:
Michael Carter, University of
Wisconsin
Brian Greenberg, InterAction
Cheryl Morden, International Fund
for Agricultural Development
Josette Lewis, USAID
Andrew Shepherd, Chronic Poverty
Research Centre |
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