Schedule

Dates:	February 1 2009 \| February 2 2009 \| February 3 2009 \| February 4 2009 \| February 5 2009
Tracks:

Sunday, February 1 2009


8:30am - 1:00pm		Regional Network Partner (RNP) Heads’ and GDN Meeting -- Glass Room, AFESD

9:00am - 6:30pm		3ie High-level Experts’ Meeting -- Safir Hotel
		Workshop (BR&P MENA Forum) -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD
		Workshop (Climate Change) -- Tunisian Room, AFESD
		Workshop (Migration) -- Round Room, AFESD

1:00pm - 2:00pm		Lunch -- Atrium, AFESD

2:00pm - 6:30pm		Workshop (Governance) -- Library and Meeting Room, AFESD
		Workshop (Institutional Capacity Strengthening) -- Glass Room, AFESD

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Working Dinner (BOD, RNP Heads and GDN Staff) -- Riccardo Restaurant, Sheraton Hotel

Monday, February 2 2009


9:00am - 1:00pm		3ie High-level Experts’ Meeting -- Safir Hotel
		Board Meeting -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD

9:00am - 6:30pm		Workshop (Climate Change) -- Tunisian Room, AFESD
		Workshop (Governance) -- Library and Meeting Room, AFESD
		Workshop (Migration) -- Round Room, AFESD

1:00pm - 2:00pm		Board Meeting (working lunch) with Policy Advisors -- Glass Room, AFESD
		Lunch -- Atrium, AFESD

2:00pm - 6:30pm		First 3ie Members’ Conference -- Safir Hotel
		Workshop (BR&P Donor Forum) -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Board-GDN Dinner -- Le Nôtre Restaurant

Tuesday, February 3 2009


9:00am - 11:00am		OPENING (WELCOME) SESSION Ernesto Zedillo, Abdlatif Al-Hamad, Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah, Justin Lin -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

11:30am - 1:00pm		Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economic Institute (CERGE-EI) and Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) Joint Session - The Economic and Political Benefits and Costs of Natural Resources Tom Coupé, Randall K. Filer, Martha Olcott, Vladimir Popov, Natalia Volchkova, Thorvaldur Gylfason, Sergey Slobodyan -- Tunisian Room, AFESD
		Economic Research Forum (ERF) Session: Natural Resources, Governance and Development Ahmed Galal, Samir Makdisi, Mustapha K. Nabli, Jean-Phillippe Platteau -- Round Room, AFESD
		European Development Research Network (EUDN) Session: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century Jean – Philippe Platteau, Jean-Marie Baland, Benedikt Goderis, Eswaran Somanathan, Jan Willem Gunning
		FACTS REPORTS Journal Session: A New and Unique Journal and an Instrument at the Service of Field Actors Joy Hecht, Philippe Kourilsky, Didier Simon, Harun Maina Warui, Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Nadia Caid -- Library, AFESD
		Oceania Development Network (ODN) Session: Natural Resources and Development in the Pacific Islands Wood Salele, Benedict Y. Imbun, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, Chalapan Kaluwin, Albert Mellam, Sanjesh Naidu, Vijay Naidu -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD
		Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre) and Revenue Watch Joint Session: Key Decisions for Resource Management; Lessons from Country Experience Paul Collier, Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Anthony Musonda, Albert Zeufack, Anthony J. Venables -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

1:00pm - 2:00pm		Working Lunch (GDN Assembly Meeting) -- venue to be advised
		‘Friends of GDN’ Lunch (TBC) -- venue to be advised

1:00pm - 2:30pm		Board Meeting (working lunch) with Policy Advisors

2:00pm - 4:00pm		PLENARY 1: NATURAL RESOURCES: CURSE OR BLESSING? Andrés Neumeyer, Nora Lustig, Rick van der Ploeg, Ragnar Torvik, William F. Maloney -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

4:30pm - 6:00pm		East Asia Development Network (EADN) & South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI) Joint Session: Cases of Natural Resource Management in Mainland and Archipelagic Asia M. Hadi Soesastro, A Banerji, Alice Joan G Ferrer, Mahmood Khalid, Budy P. Resosudarmo -- Library, AFESD
		Presentation by Finalists of the 2008 Global Development Awards Competition – Most Innovative Development Project Bhishma Prasad Subedi, Carol Tappenden, Mónica del Rosario Vásconez -- Round Room, AFESD
		Presentation by the 2006 Global Development Award Winner Yang Juhua -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD
		Presentations by Finalists of the 2008 Global Development Awards Competition – Outstanding Research on Development Lucio Castro, Jorge Maldonado, Gurmeet Singh -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD
		The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) Session: Migration, Inequality and Development Ana Bleahu, Mario Holzner, Sebastian Leitner, Robert Stehrer, Edlira Narazani, Nermin Oruc, Isilda Shima, Tom Coupé -- Tunisian Room, AFESD

4:30pm - 6:30pm		Donor Advisory Committee and GDN Board Meeting -- Meeting Room, Sheraton Hotel

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Opening Dinner Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Richard Cooper, H.E. Benjamin Mkapa, Lyn Squire -- Sheraton Hotel

Wednesday, February 4 2009


9:00am - 11:00am		THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES Ravi Kanbur, Paul Collier, Terry Lynn Karl, Tarik Yousef, Kishore Gawande -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

11:30am - 1:00pm		Presentation by Finalists of 2008 Global Development Medals Competition Pushpam Kumar, Mohamed Ahmed Awad, Vikram Dayal, Julia G. Maturana, Vicky Alejandra Saravia López -- MPH, AFESD
		Presentation by Finalists of 2008 Global Development Medals Competition Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Rocio del P Moreno-Sanchez, Luc Desire Omgba, Chibuike Uche, Savin V Vladislav -- Round Room, AFESD
		Presentation by Finalists of 2008 Global Development Medals Competition Robert Charles G. Capistrano, Gang Liu, L.V. Thiet, Catalina Trujillo, Manasi Kumar -- Tunisian Room, AFESD
		Presentation by Finalists of 2008 Global Development Medals Competition Carolle Avocèvou, Boubaker Dhehibi, Venkatesh Dutta, Houssem Eddine Chebbi, Juan Rodrigo Fuentes -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD
		Presentation by Finalists of 2008 Global Development Medals Competition Wasseem Mina, Amarendra Das, Soumyananda Dinda, Anton Kolotilin, Wasseem Mina -- Library, AFESD

12:00pm - 2:00pm		Lunchtime GDN Assembly Meeting -- Glass Room, AFESD

1:00pm - 2:00pm		Lunch -- Atrium, AFESD

2:00pm - 4:00pm		CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Andrew Steer, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Marianne Fay, Thomas Sterner, Priya Shyamsundar -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

4:30pm - 4:45pm		3ie launch Announcement -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

4:45pm - 6:00pm		Prize distribution ceremony for Winners of 2008 Global Development Awards & Medals Competition Gobind Nankani -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Dinner -- Kuwait Towers

Thursday, February 5 2009


9:00am - 11:00am		THE WEALTH OF NATIONS: REVENUE AND FISCAL MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Louis Kasekende, Vittorio Corbo, Alan Gelb, Anthony J. Venables, Helmut Reisen -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

11:30am - 1:00pm		African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Session: Natural Resources and Development in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa Louis Kasekende, Ernest Aryeetey, Leonce Ndikumana, Bright Okogu, Samuel Wangwe -- Tunisian Room, AFESD
		European Development Research Network (EUDN) Session: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century -- Mamloukeiya Room, AFESD
		GDN-Japan Session: Natural Resources and Development- Alternative Ideas for Sustainable Development Toru Take, John Kiyaga-Nsubuga, Tomohiro Oh, Hideshi Sasahara -- Library, AFESD
		Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) Session: Natural Resource Booms, Macroeconomic Management and Civil Conflict in Latin America Pablo Sanguinetti, Osmel Manzano, Eric Parrado, Juan Fernando Vargas, Mauricio Cardenas, Arturo Galindo -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD
		World Bank Session: World Development Report (WDR) 2010 ‘Climate Change and Development’ Justin Lin, Marianne Fay, Ravi Kanbur -- Round Room, AFESD

1:00pm - 2:00pm		Lunch -- Atrium, AFESD

2:00pm - 4:00pm		CLOSING SESSION - POLICY ROUNDTABLE: AFTER THE BOOM, MUST THERE BE BUST? MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCE CYCLES Hilary Bowker, Joachim von Braun, Justin Lin, Guillermo Perry, Bader al-Saad, Charles Soludo, Nader Hamad Sultan -- Multi-purpose Hall, AFESD

4:30pm - 5:30pm		Press Conference -- Round Room, AFESD

4:30pm - 7:00pm		Visit – The Kuwait Scientific Center (Aquarium)

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Dinner -- Al Boom Restaurant, Radisson Hotel