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: 612 6125 0302
Workshop Program (Day One) Thursday 5 th June 2008 Registration 8.30 9.00am Opening address: 9.00 9.15am Session 1: 9.15-10.55am 10.55 11.10am Session 2: 11.10 12.50pm Paper 1: Paper 2: Paper 3: Paper 4: Paper 5: Paper 6: Paper 7: Paper 8: 12.50 1.50pm AusAID Session: 1.50 3.00pm Paper 9: 3.00pm 3.15pm Session 3: 3.15 4.55pm Keynote Address: 5.30 7.00pm (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, 1972 2007 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
Workshop Program (Day Two) Friday 6 th June 2008 Session 4: 9.00 10.40am 10.40 10.55am Session 5: 10.55 12.35pm 12.35 1.35pm Session 6: 1.35 3.15pm 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.
ADEW08 Workshop Attendees (as at 20-May-08) Haryo ASWICAHYONO Centre for Strategic and International Studies haryo_a@csis.or.id Arsenio BALISACAN University of the Philippines ambalisacan@gmail.com Sambit BHATTACHARYYA sambit.bhattacharyya@anu.edu.au Tatyana CHESNOKOVA University of Auckland t.chesnokova@auckland.ac.nz Mamta CHOWDHURY University of West Sydney mamta.chowdhury@uws.edu.au Katy CORNWELL Katy.Cornwell@buseco.monash.edu. au Tu DANG tu.dang@anu.edu.au Partha GANGOPADHYAY University Western Sydney P.Gangopadhyay@uws.edu.au Gazi HASSAN gazi.hassan@uws.edu.au Hal HILL Hal.hill@anu.edu.au Roland HODLER University of Melbourne rhodler@unimelb.edu.au Akhtar HOSSAIN University of Newcastle Akhtar.Hossain@newcastle.edu.au Helen HUGHES helenhd@ozemail.com.au Brett INDER Brett.Inder@buseco.monash.edu.au Asadul ISLAM Asadul.Islam@buseco.monash.edu.au Raghbendra JHA r.jha@anu.edu.au Juthathip JONGWANICH Asian Development Bank jjongwanich@adb.org Archanun KOHPAIBOON THAMMASAT University archanun@econ.tu.ac.th Theo Levantis AusAID Theo.levantis@ausaid.gov.au Elisha London The Oaktree Foundation e.london@theoaktree.org Pushkar MAITRA Pushkar.Maitra@Buseco.monash.edu. au Chris MANNING Chris.manning@anu.edu.au Matt Morris AusAID matt.morris@ausaid.gov.au Vijay NAIDU University of the South Pacific naidu_v@usp.ac.fj Khaqan NAJEEB University of NSW Khaqan@unsw.edu.au Dionisisus NARJOKO Centre for Strategic and International Studies dion_ardiyanto@csis.or.id Susan Olivia University of California solivia@mngt.waikato.ac.nz Anu RAMMOHAN University of Sydney A.Rammohan@econ.usyd.edu.au Ranjan RAY Ranjan.ray@buseco.monash.edu.a u Budy RESOSUDARMO Budy.resosudarmo@anu.edu.au Marie-Claire ROBITAILLE University of Otago mrobitaille@business.otago.ac.nz Gaurav SODHI Centre for Independent Studies gsodhi@cis.org.au Daniel SURYADARMA daniel.suryadarma@anu.edu.au M. Zulfan TADJOEDDIN Z.Tadjoeddin@uws.edu.au Ray Trewin Ray.Trewin@anu.edu.au Pierre VAN DER ENG Pierre.VanDerEng@anu.edu.au Maria VARUA M.Varua@uws.edu.au Jessica XU University of NSW jessicax@student.unsw.edu.au Chikako Yamauchi chikako.yamauchi@anu.edu.au
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)