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Decentralization Task Force Meeting, New York City 2009

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.
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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.

Partners

  • Junaid Ahmad
    Task Force Member
    Sector Manager for Social Development in the South Asia region
    World Bank
  • Mani Shankar Aiyar
    Task Force Member
    former Minister of Panchayati Raj
    India
  • Tim Besley
    Task Force Member
    Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science
    London School of Economics
  • Shantayanan Devarajan
    Task Force Member
    Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region
    World Bank
  • Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    Center for US-Mexico Studies, UCSD
  • Jean-Paul Faguet
    Task Force Chair
    Professor
    London School of Economics
  • Fidel Jaramillo
    Task Force Member
    Economic Advisor
    Inter-American Development Bank
  • Juan Pablo Jimenez
    Task Force Member
    Economic Affairs Officer
    Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UN)
  • Adnan Khan
    Task Force Member
    Phd Candidate in Economics
    Queen’s University
  • Stuti Khemani
    Task Force Member
    Economist, Development Research Group (Public Services Team)
    World Bank
  • Mai Lu
    Task Force Member
    Secretary General
    China Development Research Foundation
  • Ted Miguel
    Task Force Member
    Associate Professor of Economics
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Dilip Mookherjee
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    Boston University
  • Roger Myerson
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    Department of Economics
    University of Chicago
  • Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
    Task Force Member
    former President of Bolivia
    Bolivia
  • Fabio Sanchez Torres
    Task Force Member
    CEDE Director-Researcher
    Department of Economics
    University of the Andes (Colombia)
  • Joseph Stiglitz
    Task Force Member
    President
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Federico Weinschelbaum
    Task Force Member
    Associate Professor
    Department of Economics
    Universidad de San Andres
  • Yang Yao
    Task Force Member
    Professor and Deputy Director, China Center for Economic Research
    Beijing University
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