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TYPE OF SESSION	TIME
Plenary session	9.00 - 9.15	Prof. Finn Tarp	Practical info & finding the host of next year's conference
Plenary session	9.15 - 10.30	KEYNOTE SPEAKER	KEYNOTE TITLE	LEAD IN DISCUSSANT
		Prof.  Alain de Janvry	Agriculture for Development: Messages from the WDR 2008	Prof. Erik Thorbecke
		Univ.of California at Berkeley		Cornell University
Break	10.30 - 11.00	Coffee/Tea
Group sessions 4	11.00 - 12.30	SPEAKER	TITLE	DISCUSSANT
	Session 4A	Eva Rytter Sunesen	A Mean-Variance Explanation of FDI-Flows to Developing Countries	Pernilla Johansson
		Pernilla Johansson	Debt relief, Investment and Growth	Eva Rytter Sunesen
	Session 4B	Erik Thorbecke	How Can Globalization Become More Pro-Poor?	Ernest Aryeetey
		Per Ronnås (SIDA)	Integrated Economic Analysis for Pro-Poor Growth A Methodological Approach	Morten Elkjær
	Session 4C	Gustav Hansson	Same Same but Different	Anders Fredriksson
		Anders Fredriksson	Informal firms, migration to formality and government policy	Gustav Hansson
Break	12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
Group sessions 5	13.30 - 15.00	SPEAKER	TITLE	DISCUSSANT
	Session 5A	Ivar Kolstad	The resource curse: Which institutions matter?	Silje Aslaksen
		Silje Aslaksen	Oil, Democracy and Country Fixed Effects	Ivar Kolstad
	Session 5B	Jens Chr. Andvig	Corruption and Armed Conflicts: Some Stirring Around in the Governance Soup	Dick Durevall/Annika Lindskog
		Dick Durevall/Annika Lindskog	HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi	Jens Chr. Andvig
	Session 5C	Janne Niemi	Trade Reform and Endogenous Local Preferences	Elena Paltseva
		Elena Paltseva	Autocracy, Devolution and Growth	Janne Niemi
Break	15.00 - 15.30	Coffee/Tea
Group sessions 6	15.30 - 17.00	SPEAKER	TITLE	DISCUSSANT
	Session 6A	Sosina Bezu	Impact of Food-for-Work in Tigray, Ethiopia	Niklas Bengtsson
		Niklas Bengtsson	How responsive is body weight to transitory income changes?	Sosina Bezu
	Session 6B	Heidi Høgset	Imperfect Social Learning Among Kenyan Smallholders	Marcela Ibanez
		Marcela Ibanez	Who crops coca and why? The case of Colombian farmers	Heidi Høgset
	Session 6C	Kang Tan	Effectiveness of Aid on Growth in Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels: Evidence from Africa	Pablo Selaya
		Pablo Selaya	Does Aid Increase FDI?	Kang Tan

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