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DAY 1

Overview on Global Trends, Growth Determinants and Aid Effectiveness

         Session Summary

• Economic Growth and Aid Effectiveness - Steve Radelet
  
• Comments on Steve Radelet's Presentation - Joe Ryan
  
• Framework for Development - Radelet
  

New USAID Strategies: Dealing with Fragile States and the Agency's Anti-Corruption Strategy

         Session Summary

• USAID's "White Paper" - Mike Crosswell
  
• USAID's Draft Fragile States Strategy - Melissa Brown
  
• USAID's Draft Anti-Corruption Strategy - Neil Levine
  

USAID Priorities, Including for Economic Growth

         Session Summary


Regional Breakout Session: Africa

• The Great Cashew Controversy in Mozambique - Bruce Bolnick
  
  

Regional Breakout Session: Near East

• USAID/Jordan and Economic Reform - Jim Barnhart
  
• USAID/Egypt Economic Growth: From Aid to Trade - Joe Ryan
  
  

Regional Breakout Session: Asia

• USAID/India Economic Growth Program - Rebecca Black
  
• USAID in the Philippines - Bob Wuertz
  
• USAID's STAR-Vietnam Program - Steve Parker
  
  

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Day 2

The Challenge of HIV/AIDS

         Session Summary

• HIV/AIDS and Economic Growth: Consequences and Remedies - Malcolm McPherson
  
• The Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Focus on Poverty - Bruce Bolnick
  
• Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Key Social Sectors - Richard Cornelius
  
• EGAT Briefing Paper on HIV-AIDS

Microeconomic Constraints on Business

• The Doing Business Project - Simeon Djankov
  
• Improving the Business Environment: Investor Roadmaps - Cynthia Clement
  
• Mozambique Reform Program - Minister Carlos Morgado
  
  

New Directions in USAID, EGAT and EG

• The Emerging Strategic/Operational Framework for USAID Programs (Talking Points) - Jon Breslar
  
  

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Day 3

Millennium Challenge Account -- Basis, Operations, and Implications

• USAID Presentation: Drivers of Economic Growth - Andrew Warner
  
  

Assessing and Controlling Corruption

• Assessing and Controlling Corruption (Introduction) - A. David Meyer
  
• Quantitative Assessment of Corruption - Tony Lanyi
  
• Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies in Tanzania - Jamie Boex
  
• Controlling Corruption through Simplification - Sérgio Chitará
  
• Millennium Challenge Account Control of Corruption Indicators
  
• Corruption Primer
  
• Measuring Corruption

 

Breakout Session: Success Stories in Tax Reform

• Jamaica & Kosovo Tax Reforms - Sam Skogstad
  
• El Salvador Tax Reform - Mark Gallagher
  
• USAID Tax Reform Programs in CEE and the NIS - Fran Greaney
  
• Managing Tax Reform - Richard Bird
  
• Benchmarking Tax Systems - Gallagher
  
  

Breakout Session: Making Policy Reform Happen

         Session Summary

• Policy Reform Lessons Learned (Introduction) - Kenneth Baum
  
• Policy Wheel - Russell Misheloff
  
• Policy and Environment in Competitiveness - Avrom Bendavid-Val
  
• National Trade Policy and the Environment - Betsy Marcotte
  

Breakout Session: Trade Capacity Interventions

         Session Summary

• Trade Capacity Interventions -- Best Practices (Introduction) - Erin Endean
  
• Trade Mainstreaming in Mozambique - Tim Born
  
• USAID in Mindanao - Bob Wuertz
  
• Strategic Planning for Transition to Quota-Free Trade in Textiles & Clothing - Donnie Harrington, Arturo Peguero
  
  

Breakout Session: Roundtable on Approaches to Fiscal Decentralization

• To Decentralize or not to Decentralize? - Richard Bird
  
• The Institutional Framework for Subnational Fiscal Discipline - Robert W. Rafuse, Jr.
  
• The Local Agenda in Forging "Mexico's Authentic Federalism"- Carlos Gadsden
  
  

Breakout Session: Property Rights, Finance and Collateral Reform

• Access to Finance: Property Rights and Collateral - Caralee McLiesh
  
• Background Material -The Power of Collateral
  
• Should the Bank and Fund Support the Reform of Secured Transactions
  

Breakout Session: Economic Governance in Post-Conflict States

         Session Summary

• The Role of Economic Governance in War Torn Economies: From the Marshall Plan to Iraq - Stephen Lewarne
  
• Economic Governance in Afghanistan - Fran Greaney
  
• Microfinance in Conflict-Affected Countries - Mayada El-Zoghbi