Agenda

Blue Sky Conference

Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Kennedy School of Government

9:00-9:30 AM
Breakfast and registration

9:30-11:00 AM
Michael Kremer, Seema Jayachandran, and Jonathan Shafter: Applying the Odious Debts Doctrine while Preserving Legitimate Lending

Chair: Mary Jo Bane, Academic Dean, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Discussants: Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Chief Economist of Regional Operations, Inter-American Development Bank Ernesto Talvi, Executive Director, CERES
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO, Harvard Management Corporation

11:00-11:30 AM
Coffee Break

11:30-1:00 PM
Ricardo Hausmann and Dani Rodrik: Doomed to Choose: Industrial Policy as Predicament

Chair: Enrique Garcia, President, Corporacion Andina de Fomento

Discussants: Michael Spence, Professor Emeritus, Stanford School of Business
Robert Wade, Professor, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
Bob Davis, Journalist, The Wall Street Journal

1:00-3:00 PM
Asim Ijaz Khwaja: (Lunch spotlight) Tools to Plan and Coordinate Disaster Relief.

3:00-4:30 PM
Robert Lawrence and Tatiana Rosito: A New Compensation Mechanism for Preference Erosion in the Doha Round

Chair: Rodrigo Botero, Former Finance Minister of Colombia

Discussants: Bernard Hoekman, Researcher, The World Bank
Carlos A. Primo Braga, Senior Advisor, International Trade Department, The World Bank

4:30-5:00 PM
Coffee Break

5:00-6:30 PM
Michael Kremer and Stanley Watt: The Globalization of Household Production

Chair: Robert Hildreth, President, IBS, Inc.

Discussants: Nora Lustig, Director, Poverty Group, UNDP
Lant Pritchett, Lead Socio-Economist, Social Development Group, The World Bank

7:00 PM
Dinner with Keynote Speaker Andrés Velasco (invitation only)

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