Annual World Bank Conference on Development

This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and development practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, universities, think tanks, NGOs, and international financial institutions. These papers concentrate on issues like trade and poverty; Africa's future; rural or industrial development; education and empowerment; and investment climate and productivity.

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Introduction

1

(8)

Boris Pleskovic

Nicholas Stern

Opening Address

9

(6)

James D. Wolfensohn

Keynote Addresses Scale, Results, and Development

15

(24)

Nicholas Stern

New Policies for Economic Development

39

(8)

John B. Taylor

Trade and Poverty

Trade, Growth, and Poverty---A Selective Survey

47

(44)

Andrew Berg

Anne Krueger

Doha and the World Poverty Targets

91

(48)

L. Alan Winters

Comments

T. Ademola Oyejide

122

(5)

Julio J. Nogues

127

(12)

Africa's Future: Industrial or Agricultural Development

Primary Commodity Dependence and Africa's Future

139

(24)

Paul Collier

Could Africa Be Like America?

163

(54)

Adrian Wood

Comments

Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile

201

(8)

Charles C. Soludo

209

(8)

Education and Empowerment

Education, Empowerment, and Gender Inequalities

217

(30)

Ravi Kanbur

Comments

Jungyoll Yun

234

(4)

Christina Paxson

238

(9)

Investment Climate and Productivity

Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: The Role of Price Stability and Currency Instability

247

(36)

Carmen M. Reinhart

Kenneth S. Rogoff

Appropriate Institutions

283

(16)

Simeon Djankov

Rafael La Porta

Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes

Andrei Shleifer

Comments

Howard Pack

299

(3)

Institutions Matter

302

Daniel Kaufmann

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