The Participants The Opponents
 

The Opponents

 

Professor Arvind Panagaryia
Professor Jan Pronk

Subsidies and Trade Barriers

Senior Lecturer Simon Appleton
Professor Peter Svedberg

Malnutrition and Hunger

Professor Alan Manne
Professor Robert Mendelsohn

Climate Change

Professor Tony Addison
Professor Michael Intriligator

Conflicts

Associated Professor Peter Blair Henry
Professor Charles Wyplosz

Financial Instability

Professor John Boland
Professor Henry Vaux Jr.

Sanitation and Water

Director Roger Böhning
Professor Mark Rosenzweig

Population: Migration
Director, Dr. David Evans
Professor Jacques van der Gaag
Communicable Diseases

Professor Paul Schultz
Dr. Ludger Woessmann

Education

Senior Researcher Jens Andvig
Professor Jean Cartier-Bresson

Government and Corruption


 

Climate Change

 

Robert Mendelsohn
Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor, Professor of Economics, and Professor in the School of Management.

Research area
Resource economics with special emphasis in valuing the environment, impact from climate change, impacts of air pollution and conservation of tropical forests.

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Alan Manne
professor emeritus of operations research at Stanford University.

Research Area
Climate change.

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Communicable Diseases
 

David Evans
Director, Department of Health System Financing,
Expenditure and Resource Allocation (FER),
World Health Organization.

Research area
The burden of disease by cause, the costs and effects of interventions to reduce burden and their impact on population health, and the responsiveness and fairness of financial contributions of health systems.

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Jacques van der Gaag
Professor of Development Economics, University of Amsterdam, Dean of the Department of Economics and Econometrics.

Research area
Economics of poverty, structural adjustment, labor markets, health and education economics, and social policy.

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Conflicts
 

Michael Intriligator
Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and Senior Fellow, Milken Institute;

Research Area
Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Health Economics, Strategy and Arms Control.

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Tony Addison
Professor, Deputy Director, Project Director, Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University (UNU)

Research Area
Relationship between conflict, reconstruction and economic reform in Africa, fiscal policy (public spending, taxation, and macro-fiscal policy) in low-income countries and development economics and advanced development economics

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Education
 

Paul Schultz
Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University.

Research area
Schooling, health, and mobility in development; Income distribution and endogenous household composition; Gender inequalities.

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Ludger Woessmann
Dr. Head of Department, Research Department "Human Capital and Structural Change", ifo Institute of Economic Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Research area
Education Economics, Growth Economics, Structural Change.

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Financial Instability
 

Charles Wyplosz
Professor of Economics, and Director of the International Centre for Money and Banking Studies, Graduate Institute of International Economics, Geneva.

Research Area
Monetary affairs, currency crises and the international monetary system.

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Peter Blair Henry
Associate Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Research Area
International finance and macroeconomics, particularly the real effects of asset price responses to stabilization, liberalization, and reform in emerging economies; economic growth and development.

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Governance and Corruption
 

Jens Andvig
Senior Researcher, Dr. philos (Ph.D) in Economics, University of Oslo

Research area
The economics of corruption with an emphasis on the auction systems of public contracting, fluctuations in public activity levels, international spillover mechanisms of economic crimes and child labour in developing countries.

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Jean Cartier-Bresson
Professor of Economics, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France.

Research area
Development, Public economy, the global governance agenda and the uses and abuses of estimates of different forms of illegal transactions.

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Malnutrition and Hunger
 

Peter Svedberg
Professor of Development Economics, The Institute for International Economic Studies.

Research area
The causes and effects of undernutrition and measurement problems.

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Simon Appleton
Dr., Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.

Research area
Areas of poverty and human resources with application to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Population: Migration

 

Mark Rosenzweig
Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, at Kennedy School, Harvard.

Research area
consequences of the Indian green revolution for schooling attainment, household structure, and deforestation; the impact of local democratization on the distribution of public services in India; the effects of maternal schooling on children's human capital; and the consequences of low birthweight.

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Roger Böhning
Director, Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, International Labour office, Geneva. 

Research area
Effectiveness of immigration and integration policies in western Europe.
Indicators of the achievement of human rights in the labour field.

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