Pre-Conference When Institutions Are Weak: Strategies for Change
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.
IMF Headquarters 1
Room B-702 (Blue level)
July 6-7, 2005
The Department for International Development (U.K.) and the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund sponsored a pre-conference on strategies for institutional change based on individual country experiences which will lead to a final conference on December 1 and 2. The pre-conference brought together leading scholars and practitioners working on these issues. The aim was to draw lessons from these experiences and how they can inform the role of the Fund in low-income countries. The case studies focused on low-income countries, particularly Africa but also South Asia and Latin America.
This pre-conference was open to invitees or World Bank and IMF employees only.| The section of the website relating to this Pre-Conference When Institutions Are Weak: Strategies for Change contains papers and web links considered at the conference. The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors only, and the presence of them, or of links to them, on the IMF website does not imply that the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management endorses or shares the views expressed in the papers. |
|
|
|
|
08:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast |
|
09:00 – 09:15 |
Welcome Remarks |
| 09:15 – 10:15 | Session I : Corruption in Indonesia |
| Chair |
Raghuram Rajan, |
| Presenter |
Ben Olken, Harvard University and
National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Discussants |
Dan Citrin, International Monetary Fund |
|
10:15 – 11:15 |
Session II: Transparency in Managing Oil Revenues in Congo Brazzaville |
| Chair |
Oya Celasun, |
| Presenter |
Sarah Wykes, Global Witness |
| Discussants |
Anton Op de Bekke, International Monetary Fund |
|
11:15 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
|
11:30 – 12:30 |
Session III: Transparency Matters: Initial Empirics and Policy Applications |
| Chair |
Antonio Spilimbergo, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Daniel Kaufmann, World Bank |
| Discussants |
Caroline Atkinson, International Monetary Fund |
|
|
|
|
12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30 – 14:30 |
Session IV: Angola and Transparency in Oil Revenues |
|
Roundtable discussion, chaired by Simon Johnson (International Monetary Fund), with John McMillan, Stanford University, Tim Harford, International Finance Corporation and Carlos Leite, International Monetary Fund |
|
|
|
|
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee Break |
|
14:45 – 15:45 |
Session V: The Political Economy of Institutional Reform for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda, 1986-2004 |
| Chair |
Thierry Tressel, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Jonathan Di John, London School of Economics |
| Discussants |
Jim Adams, World Bank |
|
|
|
|
July 7 |
|
|
08:45– 09:00 |
Breakfast |
|
09:00 – 10:00 |
Session VI: Decentralization and Public Good Provision in India |
| Chair | Tito Cordella, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of
Techonology |
| Discussants | Stuti Khemani, World Bank Teresa Ter-Minassian, International Monetary Fund |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Session VII: Customs Reform in the Philippines |
| Chair |
Jonathan Ostry, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Discussants |
Howell H. Zee, International Monetary Fund |
|
11:00– 11:15 |
Coffee break |
|
11:15 – 12:15 |
Session VIII: Institutional Reform of the Health Delivery System in Cambodia |
| Chair |
Arvind Subramanian, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Michael Kremer, Harvard University |
| Discussants |
Ruth Levine, Center for Global Development |
|
|
|
|
12:15 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30 – 14:30 |
Session IX: Transparency and Education in Sierra Leone |
| Chair |
Alessandro Prati, International Monetary Fund |
| Presenter |
Rachel Glennerster, International Monetary Fund and Massachusetts Institute of Techonology |
| Discussants |
Halsey Rogers, World Bank |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee Break |
|
14:45 – 15:45 |
Wrap-Up |
| Chair |
Raghuram Rajan, International Monetary Fund |
| Participants |
Ms. Krueger, International Monetary Fund |
1 For the final conference in December (1 and 2), 2005, there will be papers by Stephen Haber (Stanford University) on Banking Reform in Mexico and by Ted Miguel (University of California- Berkeley) on nation-building in Tanzania. Asterisk indicates that participation has not yet been confirmed.