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Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
10th Anniversary Conference
New Institutional Theory, Institutional Reform and Poverty Reduction
7th & 8th September 2000
In recent years New Institutional Theory (NIT) has played a key role in
rethinking strategies to target poverty. The conference will provide a
review of the way NIT produces a coherent link between the need for
expertise and control on the one hand, and individual autonomy and
accountability on the other. This translates into an examination of the
nature of the institutional options available - states, markets, civic
associations - and of the conditions under which they have to operate to
make a real impact on the conditions of life of the poor.
This two-day conference will examine experiences of institutional reforms
and their impact on poverty reduction in light of institutional theory. It
will look at the impact of reforms on finance, health care, labour, and
governance at international, national and community levels. The key concern
will be to undertake a review of new thinking, associated with empirical
studies, including studies of 'success stories' which provide evidence of
possible ways forward.
Activities will take place at the LSE over three days, 7-9 September 2000,
the third day being devoted to DESTIN Alumni.
Background Note
New Institutional Theory covers the work done by economists who go beyond
pure market theory and look at the factors which produce organisations based
on non-market relations - notably firms - and the wider factors - property
right systems and systems of state regulation - which determine the
effectiveness of markets. It also covers the work of sociologists and public
administration theorists who are looking at 'new' and pluralistic systems
for the provision of public services. All of them are concerned about the
nature of the incentive systems needed to get good performance, and of the
mechanisms through which those who provide goods or services can be made
accountable to the public.
The perspective here offers much more realistic insights into the practical
problems facing development management in the field than orthodox
neo-classical economic theory (which assumes markets will work perfectly,
when they never do) and mainstream public administration theory with its
focus on the old bureaucratic systems which everyone concerned with civil
service reform is trying to reconstruct.
The group of people who have agreed to take part are leading figures working
with these ideas in both developed and developing countries, all doing work
that is having an important influence on policy and programme development
for the major agencies.
Confirmed Conference Speakers and Discussants
Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture Michael Anderson, 'Legal Reform and
Poverty Reduction' Friday 8 September 6:00-7:30 (Old Theatre) [ OPEN TO ALL]
Bjorn Beckman, Stockholm "Trade unions and poverty reduction: Nigerian
experiences with South African and Ugandan comparisons".
Belinda Bozzoli, Witwatersrand, SA "The differentiation of social capital
and the mobilising and demobilising powers of nationalism: a South African
case"
Merilee Grindle, Harvard "New Rules of the Game: Theory, Practice, and
Poverty"
David Leonard and Kenneth Leonard, Berkeley Columbia, NY "Institutional
Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem in African Health Care: The Poor
and the Political Economy of Improving Their Welfare"
Joseph Lim, UP Philippines Institutions and Governance in the Asian
Economies
Maureen Mackintosh, Open University "Sustainable redistribution with health
care markets: an argument based on research in Tanzania"
Mick Moore, IDS "Re-Learning from the Market: Liberal versus Institutional
Approaches"
F Golooba-Mutebi Makerere, Uganda "Reassessing Participation in Uganda"
VK Ramachandran, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta "Rural Banking and
the Poor: Institutional Reform and Rural Credit Markets in India"Gabriel
Palma, Cambridge "Property rights, institutional constraints and
distributional outcomes: Why does Latin America have the worst income
distribution in the world?"
Judith Tendler, MIT DISCUSSANT
Jean-Philippe Platteau, FUNDP, Namur "TBA"
Robert Wade, DESTIN, LSE "International Institutions and the US role in the
long Asian crisis of 1990-2000"
Lord Meghnad Desai, CSGG, LSE "Governance and Poverty"
Teddy Brett ,DESTIN, LSE "TBA"
Tim Besley, Economics, LSE "TBA"
Liz Francis, DESTIN, LSE "Local institutions and livelihoods in South
Africa"
James Putzel and Jonathan DiJohn , DESTIN, LSE "Conflict, Capacity Building
and Taxation"
Funded by: DFID (UK), IDRC (Canada) and STICERD (LSE)
For further details contact Sue Redgrave, DESTIN, 0207 955 6252 or email
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or see http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/destin/
REGISTRATION FORM
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To include tea/coffee/lunch/conference pack.
Registration Fee (in UK sterling) £
Standard Fee booking BEFORE 1st August 90
Standard Fee booking AFTER 1st August 100
LSE Staff/Alumni 60
Student/Unemployed 50
Total
Please return this form with your cheque/bankers draft in UK sterling, made
payable to LSE, to:
Sue Redgrave, Development Studies Institute, LSE, Houghton Street, London,
WC2A 2AE
Conference Accommodation
A limited number of discounted rooms have been reserved on a first come,
first served basis at two of LSE's residences - High Holborn and Bankside.
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