Programme
African Economic Conference 2013
Regional Integration in Africa
Montecasino Entertainment Complex, Johannesburg, South Africa
28 – 30 October 2013
Sunday, 27th October 2013
14:00 – 18:00 | Registration of Participants |
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19:00 | Room: Montecasino Ballroom entrance Room: Verona 2 & 3 THINK TANKS NETWORKING SESSION – Africa’s Industrialization Path into its Structural Transformation: What are the Policy Options? Cocktail Function – Deck of Southern Sun Montecasino |
DAY ONE: Monday, 28 October 2013
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09:30 – 10:00 10:00 – 11:00 | Registration of Media and Participants (continued) Coffee OPENING CEREMONY Room: Montecasino Ballroom Welcome Statements Master of Ceremony:Mthuli Ncube, Vice-President and Chief Economist, African Development Bank ° Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank (AfDB) ° Abdalla Hamdok, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Official Opening: H.E. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa Opening Plenary - Leadership of Regional Integration Moderator:Daniel Makokera, Pamuzinda Productions, South Africa Panelists: ° Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson, African Union Commission ° Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance, South Africa ° Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank ° Abdalla Hamdok, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECA | |
11:00 – 11:15 11:15 – 11:45 | Break Press Conference Room: La Toscana |
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11:15 – 13:15 | FIRST PLENARY SESSION – Leveraging Regional Integration for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Africa Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Mthuli Ncube, Vice-President and Chief Economist, AfDB Panelists: ° Delphin Rwegasira, Professor, University of Dar Es-Salaam ° Lemma W. Senbet, Executive Director, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) ° Abebe Shimeles, Division Manager, AfDB ° Paulina Elago,Country Director, Trade Mark East Africa, Tanzania ° Jean-Gustave Sanon,Technical Adviser, UEMOA ° Fatiha Talahite, Professor, Université Paris XIII, France |
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13:15 – 14:30 | Lunch Room: Billy G’s Restaurant |
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14:30 – 16:30 | SECOND PLENARY SESSION – Regional Integration for Africa’s Transformation: Trans-Boundary Value Chains, Shared Infrastructure and Transformative Development Corridors Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director, Macro-Economic Policy Division, UNECA Panelists: ° David Kimoimo, Managing Director at Business Synergies, Uganda ° Slim Othmani, Chief Executive Officer and Regional Investor, NCA Rouiba, Algeria ° Mwangi Kimenyi, Director, Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings Institute, USA ° Fantu Cheru, Professor, American University, USA ° Imed Drine, Senior Economist, Islamic Development Bank
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16:30 – 16:45 | Break |
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16:45 – 18:45 | CONCURRENT SEMINARS Session 1.1 Convergence and Monetary Unions Room: La Toscana Chair:Victor Murinde, Director, African Development Institute, AfDB
1.Regional Integration and Convergence: Is African Regional Economic Community Converging Faster? Gaston Gohou, President, CESS Institute, Canada Discussant:Witness Simbanegavi, Director of Research, AERC 2.Degré de convergence des chocs macroéconomiques, choix de régime de change et dynamique d'intégration dans la CEDEAO Bamba Ka, Economist & PhD Student, BCEAO & Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal Discussant:Aissatou Gueye, Economic Affairs Officer, Renewal of Planning, UNECA 3.Can WAMZ Area Inflation Converge without Ex-Ante Monetary Policy Coordination? Emmanuel DeleBalogun, University Lecturer, University of Lagos, Nigeria Discussant:Babatunde Omilola, Economic Advisor, UNDP 4.Economic Integration in WAEMU: Will the Multilateral Monitoring Mechanism Lead to Growth and Welfare Convergence? WilliamGbohoui, PhD Candidate, University of Montreal, Canada Discussant: Basil Jones, Assistant to the Chief Economist, AfDB |
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| Session 1.2 The Political Economy of Regional Integration Room: MontecasinoConference Room Chair:Said Adejumobi, Director, Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa,UNECA
5.Contemporary Discourses and Contestations around Sovereignty, Supra-Nationalism and the Future of African Regional Integration Mofe Oluwashola Jeje, Research & Data Analysis, Market Edge Communication Ltd Discussant:Moono Mupotola, Division Manager, AfDB 6.The 10 Commandments of Regional Integration Analysis for Africa: or why Africa is not a country Ilan Strauss, Consultant, African Development Bank& Naym Charaf-Eddine, Comoros Discussant:Mzwanele Mfunwa, Economic Affairs Officer, SRO-SA, UNECA 7.The Political Economy of Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Rethinking the theoretical models SamuelOloruntoba, Post-Doctoral Fellow-Lecturer, University of South Africa Discussant:Emelly Mutambatsere, Principal Regional Economist, AfDB 8.L’informalité : Un nouveau paradigme de développement et d'intégration "par le bas" en Afrique Issofou Mountapmbeme Njifen, Enseignant-chercheur, CEREG-Université de Yaoundé II Discussant:Isiyaka Sabo, Economic Advisor, UNDPBurkina Faso |
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| Session 1.3Regional Integration and Economic Growth Room: Verona (Pivot Center) Chair:Pedro Conceicao, Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP 9. Regional Integration Models and Africa’s Growth in the 21st Century: A Fitness Evaluation Peter Golit&Yusuf Adamu, Public Servants, Research Department, Central Bank of Nigeria Discussant:Samuel Mwakubo, Manager of Research, AERC 10. Revisiting the Effectiveness of African Economic Integration. A Meta-Analytic Review and Comparative Estimation Methods Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Researcher Fellow / PhD Student, UPSA, Ghana / Aarhus University, Denmark Discussant:Adam Elhiraika, Chief, Forecasting, UNECA 11. Intégration régionale et croissance : Le cas de l'Afrique centrale Gaston Xavier Dagba Ndongo, PhD Student, Montreal University, Canada &JosephBaricako, UNECA Discussant:Joseph Mouanda, Senior Evaluation Officer, AfDB 12. Monetary Policy and Economic Growth in CEMAC Zone: A Panel Data Approach Fouda Ekobena Simon Yannick, PhD Student, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon Discussant:Angela Lusigi, Policy Advisor, Strategy and Advisory Unit, UNDP
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Cocktail Function:Foyer Teatro Theatre (access Montecasino Square)
Facilitators: Ebrima Faal, Regional Director, South Africa Regional Resource Centre and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Director of Development Research Department, AfDB
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08:30 – 10:30 | DAY TWO: Tuesday, 29 October 2013THIRD PLENARY SESSION – Towards Implementation: The Political Economy of Regional Integration Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Pedro Conceicao, Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP Panelists: ° Babatunde Omilola, Economic Advisor, UNDP(TBC) ° Thandika Mkandawire, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science ° Ibbo Day Mandaza, Executive Director, SAPES Trust, Zimbabwe ° Tetteh Hormeku, Head of Programmes, Third World Network Africa |
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19:00 | Break CONCURRENT SEMINARS Session 2.1 Institutional Integration and Policy Coordination Room: La Toscana
Chair:Sam Cho, Chief, Finance and Private Sector, UNECA
13. The will to integrate: South Africa’s responses to regional migration Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Researcher & Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor, Center for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa Discussant:Kumo Wolassa Lawisso, Senior Country Economist,AfDB 14. The Challenges of regional integration: A case study of the East Africa Community (2002-2011) PatriciaMwithiga, Kenya Red Cross Society Discussant:Allan Mukungu, Economic Affairs Officer, Finance and Private Sector, UNECA 15. Law and Development in Africa: Paving the Way for Regional Integration through Harmonisation of Laws Regis Y. Simo, Doctoral Candidate, Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Italy Discussant:George Lwanda, Economic Advisor, UNDP Zambia 16. Dette extérieure et qualité des institutions, impact sur la croissance économique: cas de l’UEMOA JérômeOuedraogo, Élève Ingénieur Statisticien Économiste, ENSEA Discussant:Liliane Alapini, Conseillère technique à l’économie, Ministère du Développement, Bénin
Session 2.2 Competitiveness and Trade Integration Room: Montecasino Conference Room Chair:Witness Simbanegavi, Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
17. L’incidence du commerce Nord-Sud et du commerce Sud-Sud sur l’industrialisation en Afrique Henri Atangana Onda, Lecturer&Henri Ngoa Tabi, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon Discussant:Ralf Kruger, Chief research Economist, AfDB 18. Trade Policies, Market Structure, and Manufacturing Sector Performance in Malawi over the period 1967-2002 HopestoneChavula, Economist, UNECA Discussant:Alka Bhatia, Economic Advisor, UNDP Lesotho 19.Primary Agricultural Commodity Exports and Unemployment AlassaDrabo, Researcher, CERDI, France& University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Discussant:Robert Lisinge, Economic Affairs Officer, Industrialization & Infrastructure, UNECA Session 2.3 Gravity Model Approach and Trade Potential Room: Verona (Pivot Center) Chair:Adam Elhiraika, Chief, Forecasting, UNECA 20. Intégration par le marché cas des pays de la CEEAC Désiré Avom, Professeur& Mouhamed Mbouandi Njikam, Doctorant-Chercheur, Université de Yaoundé II, Cameroon Discussant:Daouda Sinwinde, Conseiller des affaires économiques, Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances, Burkina Faso
21. Regional Integration and Trade in Africa: Augmented Gravity Model Approach EdrisSeid, Junior Research Fellow, the Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute, Ethiopia Discussant: Elvis Mtonga, Economics Advisor, Office of the CEO, NEPAD 22. Africa's Economic Regionalism: Is There Any Other Obstacle? Atif Moheeldeein, Assistant Professor of Economics, Kassala University, Sudan &IshakYussof, Professor, School of Economics, National University of Malaysia Discussant:Isiyaka Sabo, Economic Advisor, UNDP Burkina Faso 23. Assessing the Impact of Trade Facilitation on SADC’s Intra-Trade Potential AlbertMakochekanwa, University Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Zimbabwe Discussant:Simon Mevel, Economic Affairs Officer, African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), UNECA Lunch Room: Billy G’s Restaurant BOOK LAUNCH - Monetary Policy and Economy in South Africa, by Prof. Mthuli Ncube, AfDB Vice President & Chief Economist Room: Verona (Pivot Center) FOURTH PLENARY SESSION – The Role of the Private Sector in Enhancing Regional Integration Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Alex Rugamba, Director, Energy, Environment and Climate Change, AfDB (tbc) Panelists: ° H.E. Trevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency, South Africa ° Elias Masilela, CEO, Pension Investment Corporate, South Africa ° Vivienne Apopo, Director General, East African Development Bank, ° ° Admassu Yilma Tadesse, President and Chief Executive Officer of the PTA Bank Break CONCURRENT SEMINARS Session 2.4 Financial Integration Room: La Toscana Chair:Pedro Conceicao, Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP 24. Financial Integration in African Emerging Markets Sally Farid, Economic Lecturer, Institute of African Researches and Studies, Cairo University Discussant:Eline Okudzeto, Principal Macroeconomist, AfDB 25. Financial integration and Economic Growth: A Case of Portfolio Equity Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa EricOsei-Assibey, Lecturer&SethObeng Adu, Research Assistant, University of Ghana Discussant:Barfour Osei, Chief Research Economist, AfDB 26. Financial Frictions and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Prospective Monetary Union of the ECOWAS Countries Lacina Balma, PhD Candidate, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux 4, France Discussant:Joseph Baricako, Economic Affairs Officer, SRO-CA, UNECA 27.TBC Roy Havemann, National Treasury of South Africa Discussant:Angela Lusigi, Policy Advisor, Strategy and Advisory Unit, UNDP Session 2.5 Impact of Currency Union on Trade Room: Montecasino Conference Room Chair:Issa Faye, Manager of Research Division,AfDB
28. Impact des Unions Monétaires sur les échanges commerciaux : Le cas de l’UEMOA Ibrahima Camara,Statisticien, Direction des Etudes et de la Recherche, Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée Discussant:Isiyaka Sabo, Economic Advisor, UNDP Burkina Faso 29. Accords Commerciaux et Flux de Commerce dans la CEDEAO: le Partage d'une Monnaie Unique est-il Déterminant? BenjaminNdong, Enseignant-chercheur, &Sokhana DiarraMboup, Etudiante-Doctorante, Laboratoire de Recherche en Economie de Saint Louis (LARES), Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Senegal Discussant:Bernadette Kia Kamgnia, Division Manager, AfDB 30. Trade and Currency Unions issues for Regional Integration in Africa: Evidence with a DSGE model in CFA Zone Kame Babilla Thierry Urgue, Researcher, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon Discussant:Joseph Atta-Mensah, Senior Advisor, African Union/NEPAD Team, UNECA 31. Compétitivité et Intégration Commerciale des pays de la CEMAC : Avantages comparatifs et contribution au solde commercial Joseph Parfait Owoundi, Economist, Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Cameroon Discussant:André Loua, Conseiller du Ministre, Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances, Guinée Session 2.6 Regional Integration in ECOWAS Room: Verona (Pivot Center) Chair:Janvier Litse, Director, NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade, AfDB
32. Impact of Regional Road Infrastructure Improvement on Intra-Regional Trade in ECOWAS UduakAkpan, Researcher, Infrastructure Consortium for Africa, Tunisia Discussant:Fatou Leigh, Economic Advisor, UNDP Swaziland 33. Infrastructures de télécommunication, intégration régionale et convergence des revenus dans la CEDEAO : une approche par les panels dynamiques Idrissa Yaya Diandy, Enseignant-Chercheur, Université Cheikh Anta Diop&DembaSy, Statisticien Économiste – Chercheur, Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Sénégal Discussant:Mina Baliamoune, Director of Research, African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana 34. Economic Integration, Trade Facilitation and Agricultural Exports Performance in ECOWAS Member States Oluyomi Ola-David, Teaching and Research, Covenant University, Nigeria&WumiOlayiwola, Principal Programme Officer, ECOWAS Commission Discussant:Said Adejumobi, Director, Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa, UNECA 35. Regional Economic Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: a GTAP/CGE Impact Analysis of ECOWAS Eric Osei-Assibey, Lecturer, University of Ghana & Joseph Kwadwo Asenso, Economist, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana Discussant:Albert Mafusire, Senior Country Economist, AfDB
DAY THREE: Wednesday, 30 October 2013FIFTH PLENARY SESSION – Making Industrialisation and Trade Transform Africa Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade Division, UNECA Panelists: ° Patrick Osakwe, Chief, Africa Section, UNCTAD ° Asma Bouraoui Khouja, Executive Director, Maghreb Economic Forum ° Olatunji Olaniyi, Senior Trade Advisor African Business Round-table, Nigeria ° Jane Nalunga, Country Director, Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institutes (SEATINI), Uganda ° Oliver Saasa, Managing Consultant/CEO, Premier Consult Limited, Zambia ° Mina Baliamoune, Director of Research, African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana Break CONCURRENT SEMINARS Session 3.1 Impact of Trade Liberalization Room: La Toscana Chair:Joseph Atta-Mensah, Senior Advisor, African Union/NEPAD Team, UNECA
36. A Partial Equilibrium Analysis of the Proposed Tripartite Free Trade Area: A Ugandan Perspective Malcolm Spence, Trade and Finance Economist, Ministry of East African Community Affairs, Uganda Discussant:Babatunde Omilola, Economic Advisor, UNDP South Africa 37. Performance of Intra-COMESA Trade Integration: A comparative Study with ASEAN’s Trade Integration Ebaidalla MahjoubEbaidalla, Assistant Professor&AbdelrahimYahia, Lecturer, University of Kassala, Sudan Discussant: Andrea Molinari, Senior Adviser, AfDB 38. The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Export Growth and Import Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa LanreKassim, Research Student, University of Kent Discussant: Wilberforce Mariki, Principal Country Economist, AfDB 39.Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Trade Facilitation in Africa's Regional Integration Siope Vakataki Ofa&StephenKaringi, International Civil Servants, UNECA Discussant:Tonia Kandiero, Resident Representative for Tanzania, AfDB Session 3.2 Financial Regulation / Transport Liberalization Room: Montecasino Conference Room Chair:Agostinho Zacarias, UN Resident Coordinator / UNDP Resident Representative, UNDP
40. Financial Deepening Dynamics and Implication for Financial Policy Coordination in a Monetary Union: the case of WAEMU ChristianNguena, Consultant&Temilade Abimbola, Division Manager, AfDB Discussant:Allan Mukungu, Economic Affairs Officer, Finance and Private Sector, UNECA 41. The Interbank Market in Kenya and Implications for Bank Regulation Ye Bai, Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK, VictorMurinde, Director, African Development Institute, AfDB &Isaya Maana, Central Bank of Kenya Discussant:John Moturi Omiti, Executive Director, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Resarch and Analysis (KIPPRA) - TBC 42. Quantifying Illicit Financial Flows from Africa through Trade Mis-Pricing and Assessing their Incidence on African Economies SimonMevel, Economic Affairs Officer&SiopeOfa, Assistant Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA Discussant:Athanasius Coker, Chief Programme Coordinator, AfDB 43. Economic Effects of Air Transport Liberalization in Africa MegersaAbate, Researcher &Ph.D Student, VTI, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden& Tewodros and Associates, Ethiopia Discussant:George Lwanda, Economic Advisor, UNDP Zambia Session 3.3Fiscal Policy and Regional Integration Room: Verona (Pivot Center) Chair:Tonia Kandiero, Resident Representative, Tanzania, AfDB
44. Bilan et défis des reformes harmonisées de programmation budgétaire en Afrique : cas du CDMT, Quid de l’expérience du Sénégal ? Ligane MassambaSene, Ingénieur Statisticien Économiste, IFPRI, Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, Senegal Discussant:Mama Keita, Economic Affairs Officer, Renewal of Planning, UNECA 45. Monitoring Fiscal Sustainability in Africa: Symptoms and Sources Moses Obinyeluaku, Chief Economist, International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) of South Africa Discussant:Idrissa Diagne, Economic Advisor, UNDP Guinea 46. Règles de politiques budgétaires dans l’UEMOA : une évaluation empirique du critère limitant les déficits publics MohamedCoulibaly, Macroéconomiste Consultant, Université de Ouagadougou II, Burkina Faso Discussant:Ridha Chkoundali, Conseiller auprès du Ministre, Ministère du Développement et de la Coopération Internationale, Tunisia Lunch Room: Billy G’s Restaurant SIXTH PLENARY SESSION – Trans-boundary Management of Regional Public Goods and Natural Resources Room: Montecasino Ballroom Moderator: Pedro Conceicao, Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP Panelists: ° Francis Mangeni, Director of Trade and Industry, COMESA ° Mwangi Kimenyi, Director, Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings Institute ° Canisius Kanangire, Executive Secretary, EAC / Lake Victoria Basin Commission ° Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission ° Lynette Chen, CEO, NEPAD Business Foundation, South Africa
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CLOSING CEREMONYRoom: Montecasino Ballroom
Moderator: Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Director of Development Research Department, AfDB
Speaker: Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director, Macro-Economic Policy Division, UNECA Speaker: Pedro Conceicao, Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP Speaker: Mthuli Ncube, Chief Economist and Vice President, AfDB
Press Conference
Room: Montecasino Ballroom United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Launch – Assessing Regional Integration in Africa Report Refreshments served in Montecasino Ballroom Foyer
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