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Programme of the IDEAs Conference in Memory of Guy Mhone on 'Sustainable Employment Generation in Developing Countries: Current Constraints and Alternative Strategies' in partnership with Action Aid and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 25 - 27th January 2007.

# Thursday, 25 January, 2007 #

Thandika Mkandawire : Special Lecture in Memory of Guy Mhone

GLOBAL PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT


Jan Kregel : Improving Global Economic Patterns of Growth and Employment

C.P. Chandrasekhar: New Patterns of Development and the New Development "Miracles"

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND LIVELIHOODS IN AFRICA


Patrick Bond: "Macroeconomic 'Super-exploitation': The African Case"

Sam Moyo: "The Agrarian Question and Rural Livelihoods"

Dorothy McCormick: "The Generation of Decent Work in Kenya"

ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION AND EMPLOYMENT


Julius Kiiza: "Deepening Integration: The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Africa."

Mohammad Maljoo: "The Lose-Lose Game for the Iranian Workers: A Critical Evaluation of the Proposed Draft of Labour Law in Iran"

Charity Chanza: "Assessment of the Impact of Labour Market Liberalization on Maize Productivity and Rural Poverty in Malawi"


Peter T. Jacobs: "Developmentalism' and Agrarian Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa"


# Friday, 26 January 2007 #

FINANCIAL STRUCTURES AND THE "NEW" EMPLOYMENT

Erinc Yeldan: "Financialization of the World Economy, 'Credible Governance', Lopsided Growth and Vanishing Jobs"

Noemi Levy: "The New Pattern of Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Increased External Dependence, Low Salaries, Low Quality of Employment and Overvalued Exchange Rate"

RECENT EXPERIENCES OF INDIA AND CHINA

Jayati Ghosh& C.P. Chandrasekhar: "Economic Growth and Employment Generation in India: Old Problems and New Paradoxes"

Andong Zhu: "Decreasing Employment Elasticity, Informalizing Labor Market and Ownership in China"

LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCES

Rodrigo Pizarro: "A Neoliberal Experiment: Myths and Reality of the Chilean Model"

Alicia Puyana Mutis: "Integrating South American Economies to the USA Market. Effects upon Development, Productivity and Employment".

THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION ON EMPLOYMENT


Lu Xia: "A Comparison of "Zhejiang Model" and "Jiangsu Model" of China and Encouragement of Endogenous Export-oriented Strategy in Developing Countries"

B. Vaithegi: "Decentralised Production Systems and Labour Market Flexibility: A Study of the Leather Footwear Industry in South India"

Seraj Mohamed: "The Impact of International Capital Flows on the South Africa Economy Since the End of Apartheid"


# Saturday, 27 January 2007 #

POLICY OPTIONS IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT


Rolf Van der Hoeven: "Financial Opemmess and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies"

Timo Voipio: "Decent Work for All – Bridging the Economic and the Social (and the Environmental) Dimension of Sustainable Development"

SESSIONS FOR YOUNG ECONOMISTS


Tafadzwa Roberta Muropa: "Employment Generation in Zimbabwe: Current Constraints and Alternative Strategies".

Benneth Obi: "Oil Rent Management and Fiscal Federalism: The Nigerian Experience".

Muhammed Muttaka Usman: "The Impact of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements on the Economies of West Africa: Analysis of Recent Evidence"

Cheng Furui: "Social Dividend and Employment"

Zheng Feihu: "Employment Generation, Unemployment Impact and Variation of Urban Poverty in China"


Ozlem Tezcek: "An Alternative Approach to Overcome Jobless Growth In Turkey: A New Strategy of Industrialization"

March 10, 2007.

 
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Economics Associates 2007
 

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