DAY 1: 15 November 2007 | DAY 2: 16 November 2007 | DAY 3: 17 November 2007

Friday 16 November 2007

2nd Plenary Session Panels (CR2)

Chair: Hakim Ben Hammouda , ECA

• Freeing Africafrom a Natural Resource Curse: Some Options [ppt]
  Ernest Aryeetey , Director, ISSER, Ghana

• The Partnership for Making Finance Work for Africa [ppt]
  Gabriel Negatu , African Development Bank and Marilou Jane D. Uy, World Bank

General Discussion

Tea/Coffee Break

Concurrent Sessions

Session C1: Convergence in Africa (CR2)

Chair: Hamida Ahmat Al-Hadj, Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy and Planning, Chad

1. Why Doesn't Regional Integration Improve Income Convergence in Africa?
Presenter: Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Angelica E. Njuguna and Mustapha Sadni Jallab , Economic Commission for Africa

2. Les Communautés Economiques Régionales au Sein du NEPAD. Quelles Perspectives pour un Développement économiques et social Durable en Afrique?
Presenter: Martin Septime , African Development Bank

Session C2: Agriculture and Rural Credit (CR5)

Chair: A. Kamara, African Development Bank

1. The Effects of Displacement on the Economic Development of a Community with Special Reference to the !Xun and the Kwe
Presenter: Talita Dalton-Greyling and Lorraine Greyling, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

2. Rural Credit Markets in Uganda: Evidence from the 2005/6 National Household Survey
Presenter: Ibrahim Kasirye , Makerere University, Uganda

Session C3: Trade Issues affecting Specific Industry (CR6)

Chair: Ahmed Abdou, Technical Adviser of the Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, Comoro

1. Empirical Analysis of Tariff Line-level Trade, Tariff Revenue and Welfare Effects of Reciprocity under an Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU: Evidence from Malawi and Tanzania
Presenter: Evious K. Zgovu , University of Nottingham , UK, and Josaphat P. Kweeka , ESRF, Tanzania

2. AGOA: The Case of Ethiopian Textile Sub-Sector
Presenter: Rahel Abebe , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Session C4: External Account and Debt (LBR)

Chair: Kwadwo Tutu, Economic Commission for Africa

1. Gestion de la Dette extérieure et Efficience Productive des Pays en Développement
Presenter: Imed Drine , IHEC Sousse, Tunisia, and Mahmoud Sami Nabi , IHEC Sousse, Polytechnic School of Tunisia

2. Cadre institutionnel et investissements des diasporas dans les pays en développement
Presenter: Georges Bertrand Tamokwe Piaptie , Douala University/Rennes University

Concurrent Sessions

Session D1: Health Policy Issues (CR2)

Chair: Monique Nardi Roquette, Economic Commission for Africa

1. Health inequities in selected African countries: Review of evidence and policy implications
Presenter: Gladys Mutangadura, Adrian Gauci, Bartholomew Armah, Elizabeth Woldemariam, Daniel Ayalew, and Biniam Egu, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

2. Health Expenditures and Outcomes in Africa
Presenter: John Anyanwu , African Development Bank , and Andrew Erhijakpor , Delta State University, Nigeria

Session D2: Macroeconomic Policy Space (CR5)

Chair: Hatédhéema Nononsaa, Director General for Development, Ministry of Economy and Development, Togo

1. Une bonne politique économique pour le renouveau de l'Afrique
Presenter: Ferdinand Bakoup , African Development Bank

2. Challenges and Opportunities of Evaluation in Fostering Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Presenter: A. Gakusi , African Development Bank, and A. Sindzingre , Paris X University, France

Session D3: Trade Issues affecting Specific Industry (CR6)

Chair: Yousry M. Abd Elrahman, Chief Division, Relations Sector and Foreign Investments,Central Bank of Egypt

1. Trade Reforms and Real Convergence in CEMAC
Presenter: Daniel Gbetnkom , University of Yaounde II, Cameroon, ECA

2. TICAD Framework for Strategic Collaboration in Trade and Investment between Africa and Asia
Presenter: Nicholas Gouede , UNDP Africa Bureau, UNDP

Session D4: External Account and Debt (LBR)

Chair: Ihaddaden Mohamed Tewfik, Director , Planning Unit , Algeria

1. The Impact of High Oil Prices on African Countries
Presenter: H. Bouakez , HEC Montreal, Canada, and D. Vencatachellum , African Development Bank

2. Oil and Challenges of Trade Policy Making in Sudan in a Globalizing Arena
Presenter: Mehdi Shafaeddin , University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

Lunch

Concurrent Sessions

Session E1: Macroeconomic Policy (CR2)

Chair: Ms Khangeziwe Mabuza, Director Budget and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Swaziland

1. Challenges and Opportunities in Community Based Dryland Natural Resources Management
Presenter: Malo Meshack, Jeff Odera and Thomas Ochuodho, National Museums of Kenya

2. Macroeconomic policy space and African economies: an empirical sifting through reality and rhetoric
Presenter: Angelica E Njuguna and Stephen N. Karingi , Economic Commission for Africa

Session E2: Resource Management (CR5)

Chair: Andre Habimana, Director of Planning, MINECOFIN, Rwanda

1. Does Community Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal
Presenter: Jean-Louis Arcand and Léandre Bassole , University of Auvergne, France

2. Stabilité du pouvoir politique et rente pétrolière dans les Etats africains
Presenter: Omgba Luc Désiré , University of Auvergne, France

Session E3: Trade Agreements (CR6)

Chair: Mah'moud Michael, Lead Economist, African Development Bank

1. Post-Conflict Economies in the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: A case of Sierra Leone
Presenter: Olumuyiwa B. Alaba and Oluyemi A. Alaba , Bowen University and Flourish Consult Limited

2. Are the Conditions and Requirements for a Regional Trade Arrangement (RTA) Fulfilled by African Regional Trade Arrangements? A case study of COMESA
Presenter: Babatunde Omilola , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Session E4: Investment Climate and Skills Development (LBR)

Chair: Mlambo Kupukile, Lead Economist, African Development Bank

1. Private Investment for Structural Transformation and Growth in Africa: Where do Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Stand?
Presenter: Harry A. Sackey, Malaspina University College, Canada

2. Transport Infrastructure and FDI: Lessons from Sub Saharan African Economies
Presenter: B. Seetanah, Univesitiy of Technology, Mauritius

3. Resource-based exporting and Industrialization: How to learn from the Nordic Countries
Presenter: Arto Lahti, Helsinki School of Economics

Session E5: External Account and Debt (ML)

Chair: André Andriamiharisoa, Deputy Director, Central Bank of Madagascar

1. Dette et Financement du développement économique de la Guinée
Presenter: Bailo Diallo , Ministry of Economy, Planning and Finance, Guinea

2. Current Account Deficits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do they Matter?
Presenter: Patrick Osakwe and Sher Verick , Economic Commission for Africa

Tea/Coffee Break

Concurrent Sessions

Session F1: Resource Management (CR2)

Chair: A. Bernoussi, African Development Bank

1. Partenariat public privé et accélération de l'atteinte des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement en Afrique
Presenter: Nicolas Ponty , UNDP

2. Changement institutionnel et développement durable : Vers une nouvelle gouvernance du développement local et de la gestion des ressources naturelles
Presenter: Mohamed Elloumi, Salah Selmi, Boubaker Dhehibi and Kaouthar Kadhkadhi , INRAT, Tunisia

Session F2: Trade Agreements (CR5)

Chair: Ambassador Olusegun Akinsanya, Economic Commission for Africa

1. The Economic Partnership Agreements: Rationale, Misperceptions and the non-trade Aspects.
Presenter: Louise Curran, Lars Nilsson and Douglas Brew, European Commission

2. The Costs of Rules of Origin in Apparel: African Preferential Exports to the US and to the EU
Presenter: Alberto Portugal-Perez , University of Geneva, Switzerland

Session F3: Investment Climate and Skills Development (CR6)

Chair: Perks M. Ligoya, Director of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Malawi

1. Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities and Returns: Evidence from the Gambia
Presenter: Ousman Gajigo , University of Wisconsin (Madison), United States

2. Economic Development as Problem Solving: A model of Guns, Germs and Steel
Presenter: Yaw Nyarko , New York University, United States

Session F4: External Account and Debt (LBR)

Chair: Hadi E. Aboulaiha, Senior Financial Analyst, General Secretariat of Finance, Libya

1. Reserves Accumulation in African Countries: Sources, Motivations, and Effects
Presenter: Adam Elhiraika and Leonce Ndikumana , Economic Commission for Africa

2. FDI Contribution to Technical Efficiency in the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector: A Combined Empirical Approach
Presenter: Sofiane Ghali , University of 7 November, Carthage, Tunisia, and Sami Rezgui , University of Sousse, Tunisia

Conference Dinner Sheraton Hotel (Sheraton Addis)

Chair: Louis Kasekende, African Development Bank