November 13, 2009

8:45 - 10:30  3^th Plenary Session (Conference Room 2)

• Chair: Maxwell Mkwezalamba, Commissioner African Union Commission
• Presenter: Ernest Ayreetey, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ghana and Brookings Institute
• Presenter: Njuguna Ndung'u, Governor, Central Bank of Kenya
• Presenter: William Easterly, New Approaches to African Development: The End of Authoritarian Paternalism?  / New York University
• Discussant: Dr. X.P. Guma, South Africa Reserve Bank

10:30 - 10:45  Tea/Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:45 Session III.1.1 Development Financing   (Conference Room 3)

• Chair: Alan Winters, Chief Economist, DFID
• Understanding the Growth of African Financial Markets / Mihasonirina Andrianaivo, Université de Rennes and Charles Amo Yartey, International Monetary Fund 
• Debt Sustainability and the Ongoing Financial Crisis: The Case of IDA-Only African Countries / Fernando Leonardo Hernandez, The World Bank
• Discussants: Dumisani Masilele, MoF and Victor Murinde, Birmingham University

10:45 - 12:45 Session III.1.2 Private Sector Development (Conference Room 5)

• Chair: Abdul B. Kamara, African Development Bank

• Determinants of Inter-Country Variations in Industrial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions / Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College
• Public institutions and the private sector at a time of economic crisis in Africa / Hilary Nwokeabia, UNCTAD
• Discussants: Mirjam Iyambo, Namibia Central and Douglas Barnet, African Development Bank

10:45 - 12:45 Session III.1.3 Health Issues (Conference Room 6)

• Chair: Una Osili, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
• Risk management strategies and labour productivity in rural Africa / Taro Boel, UNECA 
• Demand for health services in Ethiopia: exploratory analysis from welfare monitoring surveys / Abebe Shimeles, African Development Bank
• Discussants: Una Osili, Indiana and Ferdinand Bakoup, African Development Bank 

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch (Banquet Hall) 

14:00 - 16:00 Session III.2.1  Agricultural Growth Strategies(Conference Room 3)

• Chair: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, International Food Policy Research Institute 
• New incentives for new agricultural technology development in Africa / William Masters,  Purdue University and International Growth Center
• Climate change and its implications for agricultural strategies in Africa: the case of Ethiopia / Alemu Mekonnen, Addis Ababa University
• Agricultural technology, rural transportation infrastructure, and economic growth / Douglas Gollin, Williams College and International Growth Center
• Constraints on agricultural productivity growth: ‘agriculture first’ questioned / Stefan Dercon, Oxford and International Growth Center 

14:00 - 16:00 Session III.2.2  Protecting the Growth Agenda: Macroeconomic Perspectives (Conference Room 5)

• Chair: John Page, Brookings Institute and International Growth Center
• Tanzania: / Christopher Adam, Oxford University, UK and International Growth Center; Steve O’Connell, Swarthmore College, USA and International Growth 
• Ghana / Ernest Ayreetey, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ghana and International Growth Center 

16:00 - 16:15 Tea/Coffee Break

16:15 - 18:45 Round Table: Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis - Lessons Learned and the Way Forward  (Conference Room 2)    

• Moderator: Dr. Ekwow Garbrah, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
• Adji Oteth Ayassor, Minister of Economy and Finance, Togo
• Yaw Nyarko, New York University 
• Pierre Jacquet, Chief Economist, Agence Française de Développement
• Ambroise Kone, Special Advisor to Governor, BCEAO
• Maxwell Mkwezalamba, Commissioner African Union Commission
• Aloysius Uche Ordu, Vice President, African Development Bank

18:15 - 18:45 Closing Session

• Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank
• Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director Trade, Finance and Economic Development Division, Economic Commission for Africa