Villa Borsig Workshop Series 1999 Inclusion, Justice, and Poverty Reduction


Programme

  

  Tuesday, February 2, 1999 
5:00 p.m. Opening Session
Welcome 
GUDRUN KOCHENDÖRFER-LUCIUS, DPF/DSE 
HEINZ BÜHLER, DSE
Opening 
MICHAEL BOHNET, BMZ
Keynote address
“Reflections on a Social Agenda for the New Millennium” 
M. ISMAIL SERAGELDIN, The World Bank
 
6:30 p.m.  Reception and Dinner at Villa Borsig 
at the invitation of the Director General of the DSE

  Wednesday, 3 February 1999
9:00 a.m. Introductory Session
Introduction: GUDRUN KOCHENDÖRFER-LUCIUS, DPF/DSE
Chairperson: CAROLA DONNER-REICHLE, Protestant Association for Cooperation in Development (eze), Bonn
Speaker: RAVI KANBUR, Cornell University and Director 
of the WDR 2000/1
Discussion
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Session I 
Exclusion and Poverty: Old Lessons and New Directions
Chairperson: GUDRUN KOCHENDÖRFER-LUCIUS, DPF/DSE
Speakers: ARJAN DE HAAN, Department for International 
Development (DFID), UK 
ALICE SINDZINGRE, CNRS, France 
KOTARO SUZUMURA, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Discussion
adjourn: 12:00 noon 
12:30 p.m. Lunch at Villa Borsig
2:00 p.m. Session II 
Inclusion, Structural Inequality and Poverty: 
Interplay of Economic and Social Forces
Chairperson: BORIS PLESKOVIC, The World Bank
Speakers: FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON, DELTA, France 
MONICA DAS GUPTA, The World Bank 
ANDRE HABISCH, Universities of Berlin and Eichstätt
Discussion
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15 p.m. Session III 
Ethnicity, Culture and Discrimination
Chairperson: ROSALIND EYBEN, Department for International 
Development (DFID), UK
Speakers: APOLO NSIBAMBI, Minister of Education and Sports, Uganda 
KAUSHIK BASU, Cornell University, USA 
WENDY TYNDALE, World Faiths Development Dialogue, UK
Discussion
adjourn:  
5:45 p.m.
6:30 p.m.  Tour of Berlin by bus on the way to the dinner venue 
Dinner at OPERNPALAIS, Unter den Linden, close to the 
BRANDENBURG GATE, at the invitation of the Director of 
the Development Policy Forum/DSE

  Thursday, February 4, 1999
9:00 a.m. Session IV 
Impact of Inequality and Exclusion on Growth

Chairperson:  RUDOLF RICHTER, Universities of Saarbruecken and Stanford
Speakers: SAMUEL BOWLES, University of Massachusetts 
GRZEGORZ KOLODKO, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Poland 
KAI YUEN TSUI, Chinese University of Hong Kong 
Discussion
10:30 a.m.  Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.  Session V 
Politics of Poverty Reduction
Chairperson: HANS ELSHORST, Transparency International, Berlin
Speakers:  ELA BHATT, SEWA, India 
RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University 
Paper of MUNA NDULO, Cornell University, 
presented by RAVI KANBUR
Discussion
12:30 p.m. Lunch at Villa Borsig
2:00 p.m. Session VI
Empowerment and the Institutional Basis for Anti-Poverty Policy
Chairperson: KLEMENS VAN DE SAND, IFAD, Rome
Speakers: CHRISTINA E. MALMBERG CALVO, The World Bank
KARL OSNER, Exposure Program, Justice and Peace, Bonn 
Discussion
3:15 p.m.  Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Wrap-up Session
Chairperson: GERO JENTSCH, BMZ
Speakers:  JOSEPH ABBEY, CEPA, Ghana
ROBERT PICCIOTTO, The World Bank 
Discussion
5:00 p.m. Closing by RAVI KANBUR and 
GUDRUN KOCHENDÖRFER-LUCIUS
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