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SARPN roundtable
"Development lessons: a dialogue with senior World Bank thinkers on development policy and poverty reduction issues"
Thursday 21 October 2004, HSRC, Pretoria
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SARPN is taking advantage of a forthcoming visit to South Africa by two senior World Bank officials to convene a roundtable discussion between them and a group of analysts drawn from a variety of locally-based institutions. The World Bank officials, both newly appointed to their positions, are Gobind Nankani (Africa Region Vice President) and John Page (Africa Region chief economist).
Paper by John Page: Strategies for: Pro-Poor Growth;
Pro-Poor; Pro-Growth or Both?  - 345Kb ~ 2 min (45 pages)
We expect the discussion to be a wide-ranging one covering, inter alia, issues of the nature of pro-poor growth and development, issues of investment climate, the impact of PRSPs in securing debt reduction and and the role of civil society in development processes.
Responses to their short presentations will be led by Dr Pundy Pillay after which discussion will be opened to participants. In keeping with our intention that this session allow for genuine debate we will, unfortunately, have to limit the number of participants.
Before this appointment, Gobind Nankani headed the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Newtwork, designed to enhance the WB's strategic focus on poverty reduction and trade in low and middle income countries. He has also served as the country director in Brazil and as the chief economist for South Asia. He is a Ghanaian national.
For the last four years, John Page was the director of the WB's Poverty Reduction Group. In this capacity he oversaw WB programmes to support the development of Poverty Reduction Strategies in about 70 low income countries. He obtained a doctorate from Oxford and has published widely on trade policy, industrial economics and policy and the economics of developing countries. He previously served as chief economist of the Middle East and North Africa region. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University has also taught at Stanford and Princeton. Attached, is the presentation which Page will be using at this week's DPRU/TIPS/Cornell conference.
Pundy Pillay is executive director of Sizanang, a locally-based consultancy specialising in development issues in South Africa and in other African countries.
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