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invite you to a half-day seminar on
Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:45 am - 12:30 pm
Preston Auditorium
Continental breakfast will be provided
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
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| Growth Strategies and Urbanization |
| Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development |
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| Opening remarks by Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of |
| Network, PREM, The World Bank Group |
| Closing remarks by Graeme P. Wheeler, Managing |
| Director, The World Bank Group |
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| Join Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Chairman |
| of the Commission on Growth and Development, along with an |
| eminent panel of commentators, including: |
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| Richard Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics, |
| University of California-Riverside |
| Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and |
| Caribbean Region, World Bank |
| Gilles Duranton, Noranda Chair, Professor, Department of |
| Economics, University of Toronto |
| Richard Green, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and |
| Economics, George Washington University |
| Marja Hoek-Smit, Director, International Housing Finance |
| Program, Wharton School of Business |
| Sukkoo Kim, Associate Professor, University of |
| Washington-St. Louis |
| Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for |
| Development, The Brookings Institution |
| Arvind Virmani, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, |
| India |
| George Peterson, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute (ret.) |
| John Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, |
| University of California at Berkeley |
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| to discuss the role of urbanization in growth strategies, based |
| on ?state of the art? papers covering the following topics: |
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| Urban Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth |
| Geography and Regional Inequality |
| Urban Labor Markets and Growth |
| Urban Housing Policies |
| Lessons from the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis |
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| Agenda: (See attached file: Agenda_April 17_modified.doc) |
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About the Commission on Growth and Development
The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April
2006 as a response to two insights. First, poverty cannot be reduced
in isolation from economic growth?an observation that has recently
been overlooked in thinking and strategies for development. Second,
there is growing awareness that knowledge about economic growth is
much less definitive than commonly thought. Consequently, the
Commission?s mandate is to ?take stock of the state of theoretical
and empirical knowledge on economic growth with a view to drawing
implications for policy for the current and next generation of
policy makers.?
To help explore the state of knowledge, the Commission invited
leading academics and policy makers from developing and
industrialized countries to explore and discuss economic issues it
thought relevant for growth and development, including controversial
ideas. Thematic papers assessed knowledge in several different
areas, among them urbanization.
The thematic papers on Urbanization cover the following areas: Urban
Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth (Gilles Duranton,
John Quigley), Geography and Regional Inequality (Sukkoo Kim, Tony
Venables), Urban Housing Subsidy Policies (Richard Arnott), and The
U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned
(Dwight Jaffee).
The Commission?s work is supported by the Governments of Australia,
the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the World Bank Group.
For more information and the draft thematic papers, please visit:
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