2007 Economic Growth Officers Workshop
Final Agenda


Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

CLUSTER 1: MONDAY, October 15, 2007
Thinking Strategically About Economic Growth

Time
Topic
Speaker(s)
Moderator

8:15 am --9:00 am

 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am -10:30 am

Franklin C/D
1. Welcome

Jacqueline E. Schafer
Assistant Administrator, EGAT
 
Steve Hadley

2. Opening Address

Henrietta Holsman Fore,
Director ofUS Foreign Assistance

 

3. Keynote address: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity”

Carl Schramm and Bob Litan, Kauffman Foundation

 
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Franklin C/D
4. Global trends in economic growth

Mike Crosswell, USAID-ODFA

Bob Aten
5. Trade, growth and development: trends and linkages

Erin Endean, Nathan  
6. FDI in USAID countries and private capital – empirical trends

Roger Manring, Nathan  

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Franklin C/D

 Lunch and Speaker Presentation:
“Economics Training for Host-Country Partners”
Prof. A.C. Harberger, Bob Aten
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Franklin C/D
7. The USAID Economic Growth Strategy
Steve Hadley,
USAID
Jim Fox
Mike Crosswell,
USAID
Steve Hadley

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Franklin C/D






McPherson A



McPherson B
8. Priorities in assisting tax reform Mario Mansour, IMF
– Africa;

Mark Gallagher
Balkans, CEE;

A.C. Harberger –
Central America

David Dod
9. Impact of rapid growth in China and India on other developing countries

Prof Carl Dahlman,
Georgetown
Don Sillers
10. International benchmarking of economic growth performance Bruce Bolnick,
Nathan
Dirck Stryker, AIRD
Rave Aulakh
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Franklin C/D
11. What makes growth more or less pro-poor? Louise Cord,
World Bank
Don Sillers
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Franklin C/D
 Monday wrap-up
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
 Reception for all participants (At Four Points Sheraton Hotel)


Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


 

Final Agenda for USAID
Economic Growth Officers
Workshop (PDF 91kb)