Publication: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2004 : Economic Integration and Social Responsibility
Date
2007
ISSN
Published
2007
Author(s)
Bourguignon, Francois
Jacquet, Pierre
Pleskovic, Boris
Abstract
To address these broad questions: How to
analyze the impact of globalization? What is the effect of
rich countries' policies on developing ones? How to
redefine the development agenda and scale-up the aid effort?
The European Conference on Development Economics
(ABCDE-Europe) focused on some of the problematic features
of globalization and discussed the global impact of
developed countries' policies in a number of crucial
areas for developing countries, such as farm trade,
migrations, the protection of intellectual property, and
capital flows. It also highlighted the role and
responsibilities of the private sector. This volume,
organized in twelve chapters, opens with the five plenary
session papers that were at the core of the discussion and
focuses on five crucial issues and policy challenges:
agricultural trade, migration flows, intellectual property
rights, the costs and benefits of international capital
flows, and options for sovereign debt restructuring. The
seven remaining chapters offer a collection of selected
papers discussed in the parallel workshops held during the
conference. They cover a wider range of issues, from the
role and responsibilities of private actors and the
components of the business environment, to the sources of
development finance and the relationship between commodity
resources and development, to the issue of scaling up, and
the possibility of intensifying the volume and impact of
development aid.
Citation
“Bourguignon, Francois; Jacquet, Pierre; Pleskovic, Boris. 2007. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2004 : Economic Integration and Social Responsibility. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6691 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”