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CLUSTER
3: WEDNESDAY, October 17, 2007
Business Climate Reform - Approches, Activities
and Best Practices
| Time |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Moderator |
|
8:15
am --9:00 am |
Continental
Breakfast |
9:00
am -10:30 am
Franklin
C/D |
22.
Tuesday review
|
Jock
Conlu, BAH |
|
| 23.
Doing Business 2004-2007 &
2008: Doing Business and Empowering
Women
|
Simeon
Djankov, IFC
|
Steve
Hadley |
|
| 10:30
am - 10:45 am |
Coffee Break
|
10:45
am - 12:30 pm
Franklin
C/D |
| 24.
FIAS Vision and Strategy |
Tom
Davenport, IFC
|
Jeff
Levine |
25.
Role of Millennium Challenge
Corporation in economic development
|
Rodney
Bent, Deputy CEO
MCC
|
Steve
Hadley |
|
|
12:30
pm - 1:30 pm
|
Lunch
|
1:30
pm - 2:30 pm
|
Franklin
C/D
|
Franklin
C/D
|
McPherson
A
|
|
| 26.
Measuring and Reducing Trade
Obstacle |
David
Dod, EGAT/EG
Chad Ford, Chemonics
Ali Kamel, USAID
|
Tracy
Quilter |
27.
Improving business regulation:
the Guillotine and other approaches
|
Marc
Shiman
Scott Jacobs, Jacobs & Associates
|
Wade
Channell |
| 28.
“Lighting Africa”
– a World Bank initiative |
Fabio
Nehme, IFC
|
Gordon
Weynand, |
|
|
2:30
pm - 3:30 pm
|
Franklin
C
|
|
McPherson
A
|
Franklin
D
|
| McPherson
B |
|
| 29.
Doing Business – subnational
competition Vietnam, Mexico,
Brazil |
Helle
Weeke DAI
Zenaida Hernandez IFC
|
Cory
O’Hara |
30.
The promise and limits of
land titling
|
John
Bruce, World Bank
Discussants: Jolyne Sanjak,
MCC &
Karol Boudreaux, George Mason
|
Gregory
Myer |
| 31.
Access to Credit – Beyond
Banking Regulation |
Woody
Fleisig, CEAL
|
Bill
Baldridge |
32.
Workforce
development programs - South
America, Asia, and Haiti
|
Caroline
Fawcett, EDC
Ron Israel, EDC |
Jeff
Levine |
|
| 3:30-
pm - 3:45 pm |
Coffee Break
|
3:45
pm - 4:15 pm
Franklin
C/D |
33. World Development
Report 2008 – The Role
of Agriculture
|
Prof
Alain de Janvry, UC Berkeley |
Lena
Heron |
|
4:15
pm - 5:00 pm
Franklin
C/D |
| 34.
Uses and Abuses of Doing Business
indicators |
Wade
Channell
Tom Kelly, MCC |
Annette
Brown, Chemonics |
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