Fourth Australasian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW IV) A two-day workshop Thursday and Friday, 5 6 June 2008

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1 Fourth Australasian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW IV) A two-day workshop Thursday and Friday, 5 6 June 2008 University House, Canberra, Australia, 2008 Organised by The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific With financial support from The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) Workshop Convenor: Professor Hal Hill Workshop Committee: Hal Hill, Chris Manning, Budy Resosudarmo and Chikako Yamauchi Enquiries: Karen Nulty E: economics.rspas@anu.edu.au) T:

2 Workshop Program (Day One) Thursday 5 th June 2008 Registration am Opening address: am Session 1: am am Session 2: pm Paper 1: Paper 2: Paper 3: Paper 4: Paper 5: Paper 6: Paper 7: Paper 8: pm AusAID Session: pm Paper 9: 3.00pm 3.15pm Session 3: pm Keynote Address: pm (Sixth HW Arndt Memorial Lecture) Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre Paper 10: Paper 11: Paper 12: Paper 13: Paper 14: Drawing Room, University House Hon. Bob McMullan Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Chair: Hal Hill Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth in Indonesia Pierre VAN DER ENG Industrialisation after a Deep Economic Crisis: Indonesia Haryo ASWICAHYONO / Donny NARJOKO / Hal HILL Plant Productivity, Producer Concentration and Trade Policy Regime: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing Archanun KOHPAIBOON Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns and Determinants Juthathip JONGWANICH Morning tea Chair: Budy Resosudarmo Child Labour and Schooling Responses to Access to Microcredit in Rural Bangledesh Asadul ISLAM Determinants of Gender Inequality in Child Mortality in India: Does God(s) Matter? Marie-Claire ROBITAILLE Female Genital Cutting and Marital Outcomes Tatyana CHESNOKOVA Is There Gender Bias in the Household s Time Allocation in a Developing Country? The Indian Experience Pushkar MAITRA / Ranjan RAY Lunch Chair: Chris Manning The Philippines Growth: Poverty Conundrum Arsenio BALISACAN MDGs in the Pacific Vijay NAIDU Tea Break Chair: Chikako Yamauchi Aid has Failed the Pacific: Labour Markets and Social Indicators Helen HUGHES / Gaurav SODHI Economic Vulnerability in Tajikistan Raghbendra JHA / Tu DANG / Tashrifov YUSUF Macroeconomic Developments, Policies and Issues in Bangladesh: A Review, Akhtar HOSSAIN Short-run Macroeconomic Determinants and Impact on the Philippine Economy of Remittances Maria VARUA / Arlene GARCES-OZANNE Measuring the Immeasurable: The Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Professor Ross Garnaut AO

3 Workshop Program (Day Two) Friday 6 th June 2008 Session 4: am am Session 5: pm pm Session 6: pm 3.15pm Paper 15: Paper 16: Paper 17: Paper 18: Paper 19: Paper 20: Paper 21: Paper 22: Paper 23: Paper 24: Paper 25: Chair: Hal Hill Paper Corruption, Public Spending and Education Outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia Daniel SURYADARMA Trade Liberalisation and Institutional Development Sambit BHATTCHARYYA Is Fiscal Decentralisation Conflict Abating? Routine Violence and District level Government in Java, Indonesia Syed Mansoob MURSHED / Zulfan TADJOEDDIN Understanding Socio-institutional Reform: What Matters? Khaqan NAJEEB Morning tea Chair: Chris Manning Education Reform in China: The Implications of Rapid Skill Accumulation Jessica XU / Richard HARRIS / Peter ROBERTSON Mapping Poverty in Rural China: How Much Does the Environment Matter? John GIBSON / Xiangzheng DENG / Jikun HUANG / Susan OLIVIA / Scott ROZELLE Migration as a Response to Intra Household Risk: Evidence from Indonesia Elisabetta MAGNANI / Anu RAMMOHAN Sibling Effects on Educational Engagement and Achievement for Rural South African Children Katy CORNWELL / Brett INDER / Pushkar MAITRA / Anu RAMMOHAN Working Lunch (including ADEW committee meeting) Chair: Chikako Yamauchi Anarchy and Herding: A Simple Model of Irrational Human Conflicts Partha GANGOPADHYAY Development (Paradigm) Failures Roland HODLER Growth and Dynamics of Australia's Education Export Mamta CHOWDHURY Workshop concludes NOTES: For sessions 1 5 the allowed time is 100minutes with four papers, including 15 minutes (maximum) per presentation.

4 ADEW08 Workshop Attendees (as at 20-May-08) Haryo ASWICAHYONO Centre for Strategic and International Studies Arsenio BALISACAN University of the Philippines Sambit BHATTACHARYYA Tatyana CHESNOKOVA University of Auckland Mamta CHOWDHURY University of West Sydney Katy CORNWELL au Tu DANG Partha GANGOPADHYAY University Western Sydney Gazi HASSAN Hal HILL Roland HODLER University of Melbourne Akhtar HOSSAIN University of Newcastle Helen HUGHES Brett INDER Asadul ISLAM Raghbendra JHA Juthathip JONGWANICH Asian Development Bank Archanun KOHPAIBOON THAMMASAT University Theo Levantis AusAID Elisha London The Oaktree Foundation Pushkar MAITRA au Chris MANNING Matt Morris AusAID Vijay NAIDU University of the South Pacific Khaqan NAJEEB University of NSW Dionisisus NARJOKO Centre for Strategic and International Studies Susan Olivia University of California Anu RAMMOHAN University of Sydney Ranjan RAY u Budy RESOSUDARMO Marie-Claire ROBITAILLE University of Otago Gaurav SODHI Centre for Independent Studies Daniel SURYADARMA M. Zulfan TADJOEDDIN Ray Trewin Pierre VAN DER ENG Maria VARUA Jessica XU University of NSW Chikako Yamauchi chikako.yamauchi@anu.edu.au

5 ADEW08 Workshop Venues Map of ANU Campus Building 1 - University House (on-campus accommodation) Building 8a Coombs Lecture Theatre Building 9 Coombs Building (Economics RSPAS)