11:15am - 12:00pm
Symposium

Can growth reduce misery as well as poverty ?

Jean-Philippe Platteau
Development and Development Economics: where from now?
11:15am - 12:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Philippe Platteau

    University of Namur, Belgium

    Events

    Introduction : development economics at the crossroads
    François Bourguignon

    Symposium
    2:30 - 2:45pm

    Structural change, industrialization and economic growth
    Dani Rodrik

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:30pm

    Africa in the long term
    Denis Cogneau

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:15pm

    The Structuralist-Keynesian-Neoclassical debate revisited
    Carlos Winograd

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:15pm

    What are and what should be the orientations of development economics ?
    Carlos Winograd, Gary Fields, Stephan Klasen, Dani Rodrik et Thierry Verdier

    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm

    Making a better living : paid and unpaid work and poverty reduction
    Gary Fields

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:15am

    Measuring poverty : current challenges and new directions
    Stephan Klasen

    Symposium
    10:15 - 11:00am

    Can growth reduce misery as well as poverty ?
    Jean-Philippe Platteau

    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:00pm

    Inequality of opportunity, mobility and development
    Francisco Ferreira

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:45pm

    Culture and institutions as fundamental factors in the political economy of development
    Thierry Verdier

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:45pm

    Will experiments, behavioral economics and political economy analysis help us improve development ai…
    Stefan Dercon

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:30pm

    Will Africa Be Able to Harness the Opportunity Presented by Natural Re…
    Paul Collier

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:15pm

    What role should the international community, and developed economies in particular, play in helping…
    François Bourguignon, Denis Cogneau, Stefan Dercon, Francisco Ferreira et Jean-Philippe Platteau

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:15pm

    Summary
    François Bourguignon

    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm

    See also

    François Bourguignon, chair Knowledge against poverty
    Development and Development Economics: where from now?