Decentralization Task Force Meeting, New York City 2009
June 10, 2009
Columbia University New York City, New York, United States
The top academics studying decentralization presented and debated the latest research in the field and discussed and evaluated the resulting policy options in the company of World Bank professionals working on decentralization and policymakers from countries with notable decentralization experiments.
Partners
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Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, California, United States
The purpose in both cases was not only for the researchers to share new theoretical and empirical findings with practitioners, but also for practitioners and policymakers to give feedback to the scholars and share their own insights based on their work in the field.Based on the research and discussion at the meeting, we will be working to put out an edited volume of papers that bring together the newest research, policy ideas and critiques of decentralization.
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Junaid Ahmad
Task Force Member
Sector Manager for Social Development in the South Asia region
World Bank
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Mani Shankar Aiyar
Task Force Member
former Minister of Panchayati Raj
India
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Tim Besley
Task Force Member
Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science
London School of Economics
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Shantayanan Devarajan
Task Force Member
Chief Economist of the World Bank's Africa Region
World Bank
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Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Task Force Member
Professor
Center for US-Mexico Studies, UCSD
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Jean-Paul Faguet
Task Force Chair
Professor
London School of Economics
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Fidel Jaramillo
Task Force Member
Economic Advisor
Inter-American Development Bank
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Juan Pablo Jimenez
Task Force Member
Economic Affairs Officer
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UN)
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Adnan Khan
Task Force Member
Phd Candidate in Economics
Queen's University
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Stuti Khemani
Task Force Member
Economist, Development Research Group (Public Services Team)
World Bank
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Mai Lu
Task Force Member
Secretary General
China Development Research Foundation
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Ted Miguel
Task Force Member
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
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Dilip Mookherjee
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
Boston University
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Roger Myerson
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
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Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Task Force Member
former President of Bolivia
Bolivia
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Fabio Sanchez Torres
Task Force Member
CEDE Director-Researcher
Department of Economics
University of the Andes (Colombia)
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Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Member
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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Federico Weinschelbaum
Task Force Member
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Universidad de San Andres
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Yang Yao
Task Force Member
Professor and Deputy Director, China Center for Economic Research
Beijing University