PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS
Browse the biographies at right to learn more about the scholars and research from the 2005 Annual Conference for Development and Change.
Martín Pablo Abeles
New School University
"Economic Openness, Financial Fragility and Corporate Finance: A Minskyan Perspective on Argentina’s 2001 Crisis"
Chukwuma Agu
African Institute for Applied Economics
"What Regional Integration and Economic Partnership Agreements Make Sense at this Time for Africa?"
P. L. Beena
Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
"Limits to Universal Trade Liberalisation: The Post-ATC Scenario of Textiles & Clothing Sector in South Asia"
Edsel Beja, Jr.
Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Economics
"Resources Lost… Resource (To Be) Regained? Some Consequences of Capital Flight in the Philippines "
Mario Biggeri
University of Florence, Faculty of Economics
"China in Perspective: From Economic ‘Miracle’ to Human Development?"
Paulo Gala
Fundação Getulio Vargas
"Exchange Rate Policies in Latin American and East and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study"
LaDawn Haglund
Arizona State University, School of Justice and Social Inquiry
"Ties that Collide: Embeddedness under Democratization and Neo-liberalization"
Pável Isa Contreras
Centro de Investigación Económica para el Caribe (CIECA)
"Special and Differential Treatment in Trade Regimes: A Comparative Analysis between GATT, the WTO, the FTAA, and Cotonou"
Jason Jackson
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
"In Search of the Diaspora Effect: Lessons from Taiwanese and Indian ‘brain gain’ for Jamaican ‘brain drain’"
Zahra Karimi
University of Mazandaran, Department of Economics
"The Role of Credit in Employment Growth in Cooperative: The Case of Iran"
Julius Kiiza
Makerere University, Department of Political Science & Public Administration
"On the Changing, Not Ending, Significance of Industrial Policy"
Burça Kizilirmak
University of Ankara
"Labor Market Participation Decisions of Married Women: Evidence from Turkey"
Gilberto Libanio
Unversity of Notre Dame
"'Good Governance' in Monetary Policy and the Negative Real Effects of Inflation Targeting in Developing Economies"
John M. Luiz
University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Business Administration
"Using Fractionalization Indexes: Deriving methodological principles for growth studies from time series evidence"
Emel Memis
University of Utah, Department of Economics
"Is the Pattern of Wage Differentials Stable Over Time? A Cluster Analysis in Turkish Manufacturing Industry"
Camelia Minoiu
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
"Kernel Density Estimation in Poverty and Inequality Analysis: Validity and Robustness"
K. Narayanan
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
"Globalisation, Trade Flows and Anti Dumping: Recent Indian Experience"
Armen Papazian
American University in Dubai (UAE), School of Business
"Trust, Freedom, and Wealth Creation: A Political Economy of Dollarization in Lebanon"
Edgar Pardo
Externado de Colombia University, Faculty of Economics
"Minsky's Financial Fragility Applied to the Case of Colombia, 1970–2000"
María Angela Parra
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
"Climbing the Technological Ladder: Options for Developing Economies Exports against the "New Terms of Trade Pessimism” (Draft)"
Chandrakant Patel
Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute
"Trade and Investment Cooperation between Asia and Africa: Selected Issues"
Eduardo Strachman
São Paulo State University
"Implementing Inflation Targeting in Brazil: An Institutional Analysis"
Fiona Tregenna
University of Cambridge
"Changes in Manufacturing Employment in South Africa, 1970–2004"
Ramaa Vasudevan
University of Delhi, PGDAV College
"Financial Intermediation and Fragility: International Liquidity, Adjustment and the Role of the Periphery"
Horácio Lucas Zandamela
University of the Witwatersrand
"An Enquiry into Time Allocation and Rural Household Production, and Their Implications for Economic Well-Being"
Jinkang Zhang
Yunnan University of Finance and Economics
"Targeted Foreign Direct Investment Promotion Strategy: Attracting the “Right” FDI for Development"
SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS
Jean Drèze
G. B. Pant Social Science Institute
Guest Speaker
Aradhna Aggarwal
University of Delhi, Department of Business Economics
Conference Discussant
Nitya Nanda
Consumer Unity & Trust Society
Conference Discussant
