Africa Task Force Meeting, Manchester 2006
August 3, 2006
Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom
The meeting to launch the Africa task force was held at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester on August 3-4, 2006. The task force (a) laid out a policy-oriented research agenda; (b) determined what issues are to be addressed in formal papers to be written by task force members; and (c) finalized the composition of the task force.
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Tony Addison
Task Force Member
Chief Economist and Deputy Director
World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
United Nations University
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Barbara Barungi
Task Force Member
Regional Program Advisor
United Nations Development Programme
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Paul Collier
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
Oxford University
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Stefan Dercon
Task Force Member
Professor, Department of Economics
University of Oxford
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Augustin Fosu
Task Force Member
Deputy Director
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)
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Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Task Force Member
Chief Executive Officer
Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
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Ato Newai Gebre-Ab
Task Force Member
Economic Adviser to Prime Minister;
Government of Ethiopia
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Aime Gogue
Task Force Member
Professor
Universite de Lome Togo
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David Hulme
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Brooks World Poverty Institute
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Ravi Kanbur
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
Cornell University
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Aziz Khan
Task Force Member
Professor
Columbia University
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Mushtaq Khan
Task Force Member
Senior Professor in Economics
The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Brian Levy
Task Force Member
Advisor, Public Sector Governance
The World Bank
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Thandika Mkandawire
Task Force Member
Director
UN Research Institute for Social Development
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Tchetche N'guessan
Task Force Member
Professor
Universite de Cocody
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Akbar Noman
Task Force Chair
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Michael Nowak
Task Force Member
Deputy Director, African Department
International Monetary Fund
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John Page
Task Force Member
Chief Economist, Africa Region
World Bank
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Jean-Phillipe Platteau
Task Force Member
Director
Center for Research in the Economics of Development
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Howard Stein
Task Force Member
Professor, School of Public Health
University of Michigan
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Nicholas Stern
Task Force Member
Director
Asia Research Centre
London School of Economics
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Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Chair
Co-President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Tony Venables
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
University of Oxford
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Robert Wade
Task Force Member
Professor of Political Economy, Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
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Meles Zenawi
Task Force Member
Prime Minster
Ethiopia