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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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| Sunday, June 21 |
Pickup at the hotel at 6:00 p.m.
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INAUGURAL DINNER AND REGISTRATION |
| Monday, June 22 |
8:00 a.m.
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REGISTRATION |
8:15–9:00 a.m.
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WELCOME |
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute
Rebeca Grynspan, United Nations Development Programme
Selim Jahan, United Nations Development Programme |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE |
| Rania Antonopoulos, The Levy Economics Institute |
9:00–10:30 a.m.
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SPEAKERS |
“Global Crisis and the Imperative for Job Creation: A Development Perspective”
Jan Kregel, The Levy Economics Institute
“During and After the Crisis: Why Is an Employer of Last Resort Policy Needed?”
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute |
10:30–10:45 a.m.
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TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
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SESSION 1—COUNTRY EXPERIENCES: INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, AND ARGENTINA |
India: National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Santosh Mehrotra, Rural Development, Planning Commission, Government of India
South Africa: Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP)
Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, Expanded Public Works Programme, Department of Public Works, South Africa (former director)
Argentina: Jefes y Jefas de Hogar
Daniel Kostzer, United Nations Development Programme |
12:45–2:00
p.m.
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LUNCH |
2:00–3:15 p.m.
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SESSION 2—FUNDING EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAMS |
“Policy Space, Fiscal Space, and Financing for NREGA”
Pinaki Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India
“Currency Regimes, Inflationary Pressures, and Fiscal Space Constraints”
Jan Kregel, The Levy Economics Institute |
3:15–5:15
p.m.
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SESSION 3—SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INCLUSION OUTCOMES |
“Urban Renewal and Youth Unemployment”
Steven Miller, International Labour Organization (retired)
“Rural Development, Reversals in Distress Migration, and Poverty Reduction in India”
Indira Hirway, Center for Development Alternatives, India
“Promoting Gender Equality: Ex-ante Evaluation of Scaling Up Social Sector Job Creation for the Case of South Africa”
Rania Antonopoulos, The Levy Economics Institute
“Community Development and ELR: A Gender Perspective on Jefes y Jefas”
Martha Tepepa, Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Ambientales, El Colegio de Mexico |
5:15–5:30 p.m.
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TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
5:30–7:00 p.m.
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SESSION 4—RESPONDING TO JOBLESSNESS: POLICY CONTEXTS AND THE ROLE OF THE UNDP AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS |
“Colombia’s Displaced Population”
Cecilia Lopez, Senator, Colombia
“ELR: The Case of Pakistan”
William Mitchell, Center for Full Employment and Equity, Australia
Film: The Right to Work: Voices from the Ground, a 10-minute interview, introduced by Radhika Lal, United Nations Development Programme |
7:00–7:30 p.m.
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RECEPTION |
7:30 p.m.
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DINNER |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
“Infrastructure, Employment Creation, and the MDGs: Exploring the Synergies”
Selim Jahan, United Nations Development Programme |
| Tuesday, June 23 |
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The dialogue sessions are intended to promote the exchange of views among all participants. To that end, during these sessions the panelists are allocated 10 minutes each, and then the floor will be opened for comments, questions, and general discussion. |
8:45–10:00 a.m.
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DIALOGUE (1)—POLICY CHOICES AND CHALLENGES IN INTRODUCING EGP, ELR |
| Scope and Scale: “Universal” (demand-driven) or “targeted”
Institutional Arrangements: Level of centralization, getting “incentives” right, wage setting (stakeholders? decision-making process?)
Identifying and Managing Job Creation’s Indirect Policy Objectives: Community development, social inclusion, skill creation, poverty reduction, MDGs
Indira Hirway, Rania Antonopoulos, Santosh Mehrotra |
10:00–10:15 a.m.
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TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
10:15 a.m. – 12:15
p.m.
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DIALOGUE (2)—POLICY OPTIONS AND CHALLENGES IN INTRODUCING EGP, ELR |
| Funding: Costing and sources of financing, impact on internal/external balances
Inflation: Acceptable range and micro-macroeconomic impacts
Jan Kregel, Daniel Kostzer, Pinaki Chakraborty, William Mitchell |
| 12:15–1:30 p.m. |
LUNCH |
1:30–2:30 p.m.
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SESSION 5—SCALING UP WHAT HAS WORKED, EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW IDEAS |
“ILO’s Employment-intensive Infrastructure Programs”
Marc Van Imschoot, International Labour Organization
“The Family Weekend Program”
Kate Phillips, Office of the Presidency, South Africa
“Addressing Joblessness in Brazil”
José Carlos de Assis, National Development Bank of Brazil |
2:30–3:30
p.m.
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DIALOGUE (3)—POLICY OPTIONS AND CHALLENGES IN INTRODUCING EGP, ELR |
| Choice of Projects: Needs assessment? “Basic,” “public-private,” and “gender” dimensions in infrastructure, social services, agriculture, and the environment
Design and Implementation: Assessing existing capacities, deciding on implementing body options (direct-hire, subcontracting, NGOs) (stakeholders? decision-making process?)
Radhika Lal, Steven Miller, Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song |
3:30–3:45 p.m.
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TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
3:45–5:45 p.m.
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DIALOGUE (4)—QUANTITATIVE–QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS |
Ex-ante Impact Assessment: Micro–macro impacts, benefit incidence analysis
Ajit Zacharias, John Scott, Kijong Kim
Monitoring and Evaluation: Transparency and accountability, EPWP assessment methodology (stakeholders? decision-making process?)
Stanley Henderson, Steven Miller |
5:45–6:30 p.m.
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DIALOGUE (5)—NEXT STEPS |
| The role of the United Nations Development Programme and other U.N. System partners; strengthening capacities: action research and the Economists for Full Employment (EFE) global network |
6:30–7:30 p.m.
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RECEPTION |
7:30 p.m.
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DINNER |
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