Growth and Inequality:
Issues and Policy Implications
CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 18-20 May 2001

Programme
Friday, 18 May, 2001
15:00-15:15	Introduction
15:15-17:15	Growth and Poverty
	OMER MOAV, Hebrew University "Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty". Discussant: Mathias Thoenig, MIT and CNRS Paris.
	FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON, DELTA and World Bank "The Pace of Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction". Discussant: Daniele Checchi, Milan University.
Saturday, 19 May, 2001
8:30-11:30	Growth, Inequality and European Transition
	Michael Keane and ESWAR PRASAD, Yale University and IMF "Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from Economic Transition in Poland". Discussant: Stephan Klasen, University of Munich.
	OLEKSIY IVASCHENKO, Goteborg University "Growth and Inequality: Evidence from Transitional Economies in the 1990s". Discussant: Stephan Klasen, University of Munich.
11:30- 12:30	Lunch
12:30-15:30	Taxation, Inequality and Growth
	Andrea Brandolini, Federico Cingano, DAVID JESUIT and Tim Smeeding, Bank of Italy, Bank of Italy, CEPS/INSTEAD, Syracuse University "Regional Economic Growth and Income Inequality: Preliminary Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study". Discussant: Antonio I. Garcia Pascual, University of Munich.
	Theo Eicher, Maria Carme Riera Prunera and STEPHEN J. TURNOVSKY, University of Washington, Barcelona, University of Washington "Tax Reforms and Inequality: Empirical and Theoretical Implications". Discussant: Uwe Walz, Tuebingen University.
19:00	Conference Dinner: Seehaus Restaurant
Sunday, 20 May, 2001
9:00-12:00	Growth, Distribution and Political Economy
	WILLIAM EASTERLY, World Bank "The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development". Discussant: Maria Carme Riera Prunera, Barcelona University.
	Jean-Marie Viaene and ITZHAK ZILCHA, Erasmus University and Tel-Aviv University "Human Capital Formation, Income Distribution and Growth". Discussant: Ray Riezman, University of Iowa.
	GÜNTHER REHME, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt "Redistribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries". Discussant: Rafael Domenech, Valencia University.
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-15:00	Technology, Inequality and Growth
	CAMPBELL LEITH and C.W. Li, Univ. of Glasgow and Univ. of Glasgow "Wage Inequality and the Effort Incentive Effects of Technical Progress". Discussant: Cecilia Garcia Peñalosa, GREQAM Marseille.
	DANNY QUAH, London School of Economics "Some Simple Arithmatic on How Income Inequality and Economic Growth Matter". Discussant: Louise C. Keely, University of Wisconsin.
15:00	Close of Conference

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Growth and Inequality:Issues and Policy Implications CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 18-20 May 2001

Programme

Growth and Inequality:
Issues and Policy Implications
CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, 18-20 May 2001