International Development Conference » amp http://www.idc2006.org Fulfilling the Development Promise: Transforming Ideas into Actions. IDC - International Development Conference. Sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Track V: Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid http://www.idc2006.org/trackV.htm http://www.idc2006.org/trackV.htm#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:37:00 +0000 admin http://www.idc2006.org/?p=60 Panel I: Fair Trade: Turning the Pyramid Upside Down PANELISTS
  • Rodney North, The Answer Man, Equal Exchange
  • Martha Jimenez, VP for Policy & Development, TransFair USA
  • Michael Hiscox, Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Simon Cutts, Bulk Foods Category Manager, Wild Oats Markets
Base of the Pyramid fanfare focuses on the business opportunity for multinationals to sell goods and services to the poor in developing countries. Fair Trade turns the pyramid on its head by connecting the poor directly to international buyers – and, in turn, to millions of US consumers – and empowering them to become international businesspeople. In six years, sales of Fair Trade Certified products in the US have channeled more than $67 million in additional, above-market revenue to farmers and farm workers throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. Fair Trade income funds sustainable local development projects – health systems, scholarships, women’s leadership initiatives, and microfinance programs – in over 50 countries around the developing world, and provides over 1 million farmers with resources to invest in their businesses and their products.

Fair Trade is increasingly recognized as the gold standard of social and environmental certification. It has expanded from its emergence in the specialty coffee market to a growing number of commodities: cocoa, tea, rice, sugar, bananas, mangoes, pineapples, and grapes. Consumers can now choose Fair Trade Certified products in Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonalds, supermarket chains, and college cafeterias. Panelists will draw upon their experiences at various stages in the Fair Trade supply chain to examine the following issues:

  • Basics of Fair Trade certification, social and environmental impact on producers
  • Fulfilling Fair Trade’s promise as a development model and an effective alternative to trade sanctions
  • Business risks and rewards in Fair Trade, CSR trends
  • Capacity-building support to Fair Trade producers, challenge of market access and developing supply chains
  • US consumer demand for products labeled Fair Trade and socially responsible
Panel II: Microfinance and Agricultural Business Development Services PANELISTS
  • Claudi Gonzalez, Director, Rural Finance Program, Ohio State University
  • Juan Buchenau, Executive Vice President, Microfinance International Corporation
  • Marco Aldana, Microfinance Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services
A majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the dominant means to earn an income. Since the mandate of microfinance is to reach those areas where previously credit and financial services were unavailable, there is a natural connection between rural agricultural business development and microfinance. The object of this panel is to explore those links and consider in which ways agricultural business development services can support and enhance the impact of microfinance in these areas.
Panel III: Mexico Vision Towards Sustainable Development PANELISTS
  • Dionisio Perez Jacome, Former Director of the Energy Regulatory Agency
  • Dr. Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Professor, Economics Department at ITESM Monterrey, Coordinates the ITESM investigation, “Economy of the Northern Frontere of Mexico”.
  • Fernando Aportela, Managing Director, Protego Group
  • Andrew Seele, Director, Mexico Project Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
MODERATOR
  • Alejandro Poire, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Mexico is a country in a dynamic process of change. For the first time in 70 years a non PRI party president was elected in 2000. The two presidents prior to the democratic transition had make fast paced efforts to liberalize markets, privatize government holdings, strengthen institutions and enter into free trade agreements with NAFTA, then the European Union, Japan, Israel and South America. Mexico is once again approaching democratic elections and is a country with great challenges to overcome with close to 40% of the population in extreme poverty. The panel unites academics, politicians, and businessmen to share their vision of how Mexico
Panel IV: Private Public Partnerships in Infrastructure towards Development PANELISTS
  • Bernie Sheahan, International Finance Corporation
  • Eugenio Mendoza, Director of Emerging Markets, MBIA
  • Carlos Ugarte, Director, FERROVIAL Chile
  • Fernando Aportela, Director of Public Finance, GRUPO PROTEGO
  • Bernard Carroll, Macquarie Securities
MODERATOR
  • Alan Trager, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Emerging economies have an enormous challenge in providing their economies much needed infrastructure to promote growth. Financing massive transportation, trade port, water and electricity projects is not easy in economies were the market may not provide the returns on investments. The PPP in Infrastructure panel unites the top global and multilateral organizations involved in infrastructure innovation to share their vision of how emerging economies can accomplish infrastructure goals.
]]> http://www.idc2006.org/trackV.htm/feed 0 Track III: Health and Growth http://www.idc2006.org/trackIII.htm http://www.idc2006.org/trackIII.htm#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:32:13 +0000 admin http://www.idc2006.org/?p=55 Panel I: The Eonomic and Social Impact of Infectious Disease in Developing Countries PANELISTS
  • Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
  • Andrew Spielman, Professor of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Joia Mukhergee, Medical Director of Partners in Health, The World Organization
MODERATOR
  • Barry Bloom, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
This panel will explore how infectious disease impedes economic growth in developing countries. Panelists will discuss the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria on developing countries and prospects for lessening the effects of these pathogens.
Panel II: Sectors & Strategies: Public, Private and NGO Response to the Health Needs of the Developing World PANELISTS
  • Victor Barnes, Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative, Corporate Council on Africa
  • Jeff Sturchio, VP External Affairs, Merck & Co., Inc
MODERATOR
  • Jennifer Prah Ruger, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health
In response to Global Health challenges, such as HIV/AIDS the public, private and non-governmental organizations have all responded. The debate lies in which sector has responded in the most effective manner. And can often disjoint aid efforts better work together to provide solutions to the health needs of the developing world. Through a discussion of the various types of initiatives from government agencies such as USAID, private multi-nationals such as Merck, and most recently high level non-governmental initiatives such as the Gates Foundation a comparison will be drawn. Which sector is providing the most innovative response? How can the sectors better work together? Through a discussion of the different sector approaches and better opportunities for them to collaborate together a framework of best practices and successful strategies for future collaboration will emerge.
Panel III: Women and Healthcare: Challenges Facing Healthcare in Developing Nations. PANELISTS
  • Shahira Ahmed, Program on International Health and Human Rights, FXB Center
  • Alicia Yamin, Director of Research and Investigations, Physicians for Human Rights
  • Lisa Messersmith, Director, Vietnam AIDS Public Policy Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard university
  • Mindy Jane Roseman, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
MODERATOR
  • Norma Swenson, Adjunct Lecturer on Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
The goal of this panel is to discuss and detail challenges faced by healthcare practitioners in the developing world. Panel will cover specific challenge of accessing, and providing all types of healthcare to women: issues include lack of resources, no funding, uncooperative governments, cultural issues, and mental health post conflict.
Panel IV: Strategies to Increase Access and Affordability of Drugs While Maintaining Intellectual Property Rights PANELISTS
  • Thomas Bombelles, Director of Government Relations, Merck & Co., Inc
  • James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
  • Dwight Baker, Senior Director, natural Product Discovery, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc
MODERATOR
  • Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School
One of the most pressing health challenges is making drugs affordable for the developing world, where they are desperately needed. However, without adequate healthcare infrastructure and stable governments that can enforce protection of intellectual property rights how can major pharmaceutical companies make enough profit to sustain drug research and delivery? This panel aims to bring together leaders in various industries and sectors to discuss strategies that can help address this global health concern.
Track IV: Trade for Development Track V: Bottom Up Planning ]]> http://www.idc2006.org/trackIII.htm/feed 0 Keynote Speaker 2 http://www.idc2006.org/keynotespeaker1.html http://www.idc2006.org/keynotespeaker1.html#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:22:49 +0000 admin http://www.idc2006.org/?p=37 WILLIAM EASTERLY

Economist & Professor at New York University

William_EasterlyWilliam Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africana Studies, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is also a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. William Easterly received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. He has spent sixteen years as a Research Economist at the World Bank. His work has been discussed in media outlets like National Public Radio, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Economist, and Financial Times.

Easterly’s areas of expertise include the determinants of long-run economic growth and the effectiveness of foreign aid. He has worked in most areas of the developing world, including Mexico, Jamaica, Ghana, the Gambia, Colombia, Thailand, Russia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Bolivia, South Africa, and Pakistan. Easterly is an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and of the Journal of Development Economics.

He is the author of the upcoming book, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin 2006), as well as the much acclaimed, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT, 2001).

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