In anticipation of the 2003/04 World Development Report on "Making Services Work for Poor People," and the focus on the Millennium Development Goals in the DECRG-PS (Public Services Research Team) work program, a conference organized in collaboration with several universities Agenda: Thursday February 21, 2002 | Friday February 22, 2002 A videotape of the conference can be viewed at the World Bank's B-SPAN website. | Thursday, February 21 | | 8:30-8:55 | Breakfast | | 8:55-9:00 | Introduction: Michael Kremer | | 9:00-10:10 | Session I | An Experiment in Incentive-Based Welfare: The Impact of PROGESA on Health in Mexico Paul Gertler and Simone Boyce
Discussant: Anne Case
| | 10:10-10:25 | Coffee break | | 10:25-11:35 | Session II | Social Security, Income Volatility and Health: Evidence From the Russian Pension Crisis Robert Jensen
Discussant: Jeffrey Hammer
| | 11:35-11:50 | Coffee break | | 11:50-1:00 | Session III | Explaining Leakage of Public Funds Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson
Discussant: Gerard Roland
| | 1:00-2:30 | Lunch | | 2:30-3:40 | Session IV | Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment: Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande
Discussant: Atif Mian
| | 3:40-4:00 | Coffee break | | 4:00-5:10 | Session V | Community vs. State Management: Forest Quality in the Indian Central Himalayas; E. Somanathan, R. Prabhakar, and Bhupendra Singh Mehta
Discussant: Shanta Devarajan
| | 6:00-7:00 | Dinner | | 7:00-8:00 | Speaker: Nicholas Stern | | | | Friday, February 22 | | 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast | | 9:00-10:10 | Session VI | Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy; Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig
Discussant: Abhijit Baerjee
| | 10:10-10:25 | Coffee break | | 10:25-11:35 | Session VII | Courts: The Lex Mundi Project; Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer
Discussant: Paul Collier
| | 11:35-11:50 | Coffee break | | 11:50-1:00 | Session VIII | When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile: Chang-Tai Hsieh and Miguel Urquiola
Discussant: Elizabeth King
| | 1:00-2:05 | Lunch | | 2:05-3:15 | Session IX | Selection and Oversight in the Public Sector, With The Los Angeles Police Department as an Example; Canice Prendergast
Discussant: Sendhil Mullainathan
| 3:15 | End of session |
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