Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference
Program
NEUDC conference materials are available in electronic format, it is anticipated that participants will download papers they need.
The NEUDC Conference sessions will be held in Williams College's Griffin Hall, Williamstown, MA.
Friday-Sunday
October 25-27, 2002
| Registration/Refreshments - Griffin Hall 2:00 pm | |||
| Session I |
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| I A |
7
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Openness and Its Impact | 4:00-6:00 pm |
| I B |
4
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Public Economics | |
| I C |
6
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Macro Shocks and Impacts on Poverty | |
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RECEPTION AT THE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
6:15-7:30 PM
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| Registration/Refreshments - Griffin Hall 8:00 am | |||
| Session II | |||
| II A |
2
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Trade, FDI, and Growth | 8:15-10:15 am |
| II B |
6
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Empirical Public Economics | |
| II C |
5
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Micro Shocks and Local Poverty | |
| II D |
7
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Contracts Formal and Informal | |
| II E |
4
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Fertility | |
| Session III | |||
| III A |
5
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Health in Development | 10:30 am -12:30 pm |
| III B |
4
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Environment | |
| III C |
2
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Food Aid, Food Consumption, and Food Prices | |
| III D |
7
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Land -- Distributional Issues | |
| III E |
6
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Institutions and Outcomes | |
| Lunch | Boxed Lunches Will Be Available | 12:30-1:45 pm | |
| Session IV | |||
| IV A |
4
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Intrahousehold Issues | 1:45-3:45 pm |
| IV B |
5
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Corruption | |
| IV C |
6
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Data and Methodology | |
| IV D |
7
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Firms and Businesses | |
| Session V | |||
| V A |
7
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Children | 4:00-5:30 pm |
| V B |
2
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Households | |
| V C |
5
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Growth Across and Within Countries | |
| V D |
4
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Migration and Remittances | |
| V E |
6
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Land -- Incentive Issues | |
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DINNER AND PLENARY LECTURE (La Salle gym), 6:30-9:30 PM (Martin Ravallion of the World Bank, "Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options") |
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| Session VI Refreshments - Griffin Hall 8:15 am | |||
| Session VI | |||
| VI A |
5
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The Development Industry: Donors, NGOs, and Olympians | 8:30-10:30 am |
| VI B |
4
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Education | |
| VI C |
6
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Microcredit | |
| VI D |
7
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Trust and Reciprocity | |
| Session VII | |||
| VII A |
4
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Economics of the Family | 10:45 am - 12:15 pm |
| VII B |
6
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Banking and Financial Development | |
| VII C |
7
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Labor Markets and Supervision | |
| VII D |
5
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Institutions and Inequality | |