Joint Development Economics Seminar Series
Semester Two, Academic year 2010/2011
Organised by Economics at School of Social Sciences, Development Economics and Public Policy Cluster, IDPM and the Brooks World Poverty Institute,. Semester two, Academic year 2010/2011. Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building (Unless otherwise specified). Tuesday, 1300-1400
Tuesday 22nd February 2011, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Dr Sambit Bhattacharyya (Centre for the Studies of African Economy, University of Oxford)
Title: Do Natural Resource Revenues Hinder Financial Development? The Role of Political Institutions
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Tuesday 1st March 2011, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Abdi Ali (University of Manchester)
Title: On the Causes of Capital Flight from Africa
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Tuesday 15th March 2011
No DEP seminar this week, MES by Ed Prescott 4:15pm
Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Md Shaful Azam (Economics, University of Manchester)
Title: TBA
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Tuesday 29th March 2011, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: Income Shocks and Household Risk-Coping Strategies: Evidence from rural Vietnam
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Tuesday 5th April 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Joint with CCS)
Speaker: Eleonora Fichera (University of Manchester and Nottingham)
Title: Has the introduction of Microfinance crowded-out informal loans in Malawi?
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Tuesday 31st May 2011
Speaker: Prof. Ira Gang (Rutgers University)
Title:Method of Pay, Legal Status, and Wage Gaps
Tuesday 7th June 2011, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Harry Bloch
Title: Innovation, Real Primary Commodity Prices and Business Cycles
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Semester one, Academic year 2010/2011
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building (Unless otherwise specified)
Time: Tuesday, 1300-1400
Nauro Campos (Brunel University)
Title: The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labour in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960.
Time: Tuesday 28th September 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Anita Dixit (University of Durham)
Title: Market-Led Growth and Well-Being: the Case of Gujarat
Time: Tuesday 5th October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Markus Eberhardt ( University of Oxford)
Title: Aggregation versus Heterogeneity in Cross-Country Growth Empirics
Time: Tuesday 12th October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Ibrahim Kasirye (IDPM, University of Manchester)
Title: Determinants of empowerment in Uganda
Time: Tuesday 19th October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Andrew Mold (OECD)
Title: What Are the Implications of 'Shifting Wealth' for LDC's
Time: Tuesday 26th October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Room G030/31, Ground Floor, Arthur Lewis Building (Please note the change of venue)
Sushanta Mallick (Queen Mary)
Title: What explains cross-country growth in South Asia? A gendered approach to assessing the impact of FDI and human capital
Time: Tuesday 9th November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Room G030/31, Ground Floor, Arthur Lewis Building Please note the change of venue)
Maren Duvendack (University of East Anglia)
Title: High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-inestigating the Evidence from Bangladesh
Time: Tuesday 16th November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Neil McCulloch (IDS, University of Sussex)
Title: An econometric evaluation of the benefits and costs of micro firms becoming formal
Time: Tuesday 23rd November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Abrar Suleiman (University of Sheffield)
Title: TBA
Time: Tuesday 30th November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building
Margaret Sengwaketse (University of Manchester)
Title: Diamonds and the Dutch Disease in Botwsana
Time: Tuesday 7th December 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Venue: G.019, Arthur Lewis Building