Event:8th Conference Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and European Development Research Network (EUDN)

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The 8th Conference Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and European Development Research Network (EUDN) was held 1 December 2010, at the Paris Conference Center Pierre Mendès-France Ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi 139, rue de Bercy 75012 Paris.

Background

AFD and EUDN, the European Development Research Network, have been organizing annual conferences since 2003 on development related topics. The conferences are key events for promoting European research and attract a lot of people from the North and South.

Economic growth is not necessarily development. GDP can grow in a country without noticeable improvement of poverty, health or education. Yet, development keeps being measured mostly by GDP growth and public attention keeps focusing on that sole statistic. But then, how should we measure development? Should we define a multiplicity of indicators? Should we try to integrate all the dimensions of development and define an aggregate indicator? The various aspects of development are nevertheless difficult to compare. Such are the questions that will be addressed by top international experts and a large audience in the next joint AFD/EUDN conference. Discussions will focus on approaches that can be taken as alternatives to, or complementary of traditional statistical measures to quantify economic and social progress and to design and monitor better development strategies.

Event speakers

• Dov ZERAH
• François BOURGUIGNON
• Pierre JACQUET
• Angus DEATON
• Sabina ALKIRE
• Alemayehu SEYOUM TAFFESSE
• Kimseyinga SAVADOGO
• Andrew CLARK and Claudia SENIK
• Pramila KRISHNAN
• Roger GUESNERIE
• Michel AGLIETTA
• Frank LECOCQ
• Johachim VON BRAUN

Event Video

Conference Proceedings

Measuring Development: Different Data, Different Conclusions?

Chair: François BOURGUIGNON, PSE Speaker: Angus DEATON, University of Princeton

Presentation document

Angus DEATON paper

Beyond Monetary Poverty: Multidimensional Measures and their Discontents

Chair: Pierre JACQUET, Chief economist, AFD Speaker : Sabina ALKIRE, University of Oxford Discussant: Alemayehu SEYOUM TAFFESSE, IFPRI Addis Ababa

Presentation documen

Sabina ALKIRE paper

Alemayehu SEYOUM TAFFESSE, discussion paper

Does GDP Growth Increase Subjective Well-Being in Developing Countries?

Chair: Kimseyinga SAVADOGO, Laquads, Ougadougou University Speaker : Andrew CLARK and Claudia SENIK, Paris School of Economics Discussant: Pramila KRISHNAN, Cambridge University

Presentation document

Andrew CLARK and Claudia SENIK paper

Pramila KRISHNAN discussion paper

"Sustainable Growth”: Do We Really Measure the Challenge?

Chair: Roger GUESNERIE, Paris School of Economics & Collège de France Speaker: Michel AGLIETTA, University of Paris X Nanterre Discussant: Franck LECOCQ, AgroParisTech

Presentation document

Michel AGLIETTA Paper

Franck LECOCQ discussion Paper

Round Table & Closing Remarks

François BOURGUIGNON, Paris School of Economics Pierre JACQUET, Agence Française de Développement Johachim Von BRAUN, Bonn University