CALL FOR PAPERS

To enhance CAMDEF as a forum for research and the study of National Institutions and further consolidate its vision of building a network in research and teaching, we are organising our First Annual Conference, 19 - 21 November 2004, University of Buea, Cameroon, West Africa. This conference's goal is to establish and reinforce contacts and collaboration with national institutions, research centres and interaction with practitioners in order to exchange and disseminate research results.

Outline:

1. The Role of National Institutions in Reducing Poverty
a) Improving Efficiency of National Resource Allocation: Free Market Access, etc.
b) Provision of Public Goods
c) Reducing Income Inequality

2. The Role of International Institutions in Reducing Government Failures
a) Recommendations for Changing and Developing National Structural Policies for Markets and Public Goods
b) Corruption
c) Human Rights
d) Democracy

3. The Experience of National Institutions in Financing, Advising and Monitoring the Developing Process and Reducing Poverty in the Past. Success and Failures - the Need for Evaluating and Reforming National Institutions. Lessons for the Future?
a) Washington Consensus on Economic Development and its Application
b) Experiences in the First 40 years of Independence
c) Experiences in Other African Countries
d) Experiences in Latin American and Asia

Please submit your abstract until the 15th of March 2004 via email to CAMDEF2@gmx.net .
Preliminary Papers will be expected until the 30th of June 2004
Further Information:
email: CAMDEF2@gmx.net