The focus of this year’s summit was on accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and vulnerability to economic shocks, achieving Millennium Development Goals, and promoting peace, stability and good governance throughout Africa. At the conference, IPD and the Japan International Cooperation Agency held a meeting “Industrial Policies for Economic Transformation” as a part of the IPD Africa Task Force. Topics at the meeting included rents and industrial policy, the African financial sector, and development policy proposals and goals. For more information on these topics, please refer to the attached presentations by Joseph Stiglitz, John Cage, and Shahid Yusuf.
- Shahid Yusuf
Speaker
Chief Economist
Growth Dialogue - Mildred Menos
IPD Staff
Program Manager
Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Columbia University - José Antonio Ocampo
Speaker
Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
Columbia University - Akbar Noman
Task Force Chair
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Celestin Monga
Speaker
Lead Economist
World Bank - Rahel Diro
Student - Stephany Griffith-Jones
Speaker
Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
- Yaw Ansu
Speaker
Chief Economist
African Center for Economic Transformation - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Speaker
Professor of International Affairs
The New School - Julia Cage
Speaker
Doctoral Candidate
Economics Department
Harvard University and The Paris School of Economics - Annalisa Primi
Speaker
Economist
Development Centre
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - John Page
Speaker
Chief Economist, Africa Region
World Bank - KY Amoako
Task Force Chair
Executive Director
African Center for Economic Transformation - Ato Newai Gebre-Ab
Speaker
Economic Adviser to Prime Minister;
Government of Ethiopia
- Go Shimada
Speaker
Senior Research Fellow
Research Program Division
JICA Research Institute - Joseph Stiglitz
Speaker
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Akio Hosono
Speaker
Senior Research Advisor
Research Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency - Deepak Nayyar
Speaker
Vice Chancellor
University of Delhi - Hiroshi Kato
Speaker
Senior Special Advisor
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)