Decentralisation Conference

Programme

Decentralisation Conference - London
May 23^d to May 25^th, 2003

Location: Michio Morishima Room (R505)
LSE Research Laboratory
Lionel Robbins Building
entrance in 10 Portugal Street
London WC2.
Invitation only

Friday 23^d of May

2.45 - 3.00pm	Welcome and Introductions
3.00 - 4.30 pm	Jean-Paul Faguet (LSE) : Bolivia. Discussant: Paul Seabright (Toulouse) Decentralization and local government in Bolivia [download pdf]
4.30 - 5.00 pm	Coffee break
5.00 - 6.30 pm	Patrick Meagher (IRIS, Maryland) : Uganda. Discussant: Bhaskar Dutta (Warwick) Decentralization in Uganda. [download pdf]
7.30 pm	Dinner at Zilli Fish. Covent Garden

Saturday 24^th of May

9.00 - 10.30 am	Justin Lin (Hong Kong) : China. Discussant: Chengang Xu (LSE) Decentralization, Deregulation and Economic Transition in China. [download pdf]
10.30 - 11.00 am	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 am	Gianpaolo Baiochhi (Pittsburgh) : Brazil. Discussant: Robin Burgess (LSE) Inequality and innovation: decentralization as an opportunity structure in Brazil. [download pdf]
12.30 - 2.30 pm	Lunch
2.30 - 4.00 pm	Shubham Chaudhuri (Columbia) : India. Discussant: Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE) The 1994 Panchayati Raj Act and the attempt to revitalize rural local government in India. [download pdf]
4.00 - 4.30 pm	Coffee break
4.30 - 6.00 pm	Martin Wittenberg (Wits) : South Africa. Discussant: Geeta Kingdon (Oxford) Decentralisation in South Africa. [download pdf]

Sunday 25^th of May

9.00 - 10.30 am	Phil Keefer (World Bank) (co authors: Ambar Narayan and Tara Vishwanath) : Pakistan. Discussant: Asim Khwaja (Harvard) The Political Economy of Decentralization in Pakistan. [download pdf]
10.30 - 11.00 am	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 pm	Kai Kaiser (World Bank) : Indonesia. Discussant: Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
12.30 - 1.30 pm	Panel Discussion Pranab Bardhan (Berkeley), Tim Besley(LSE) and James Manor (Sussex)
	Conference Ends