DAY 5   FRIDAY

31 OCTOBER 2008


TCI Conference
Academic Summit / TIPS Annual Forum

Track A & B

Track C

Track D

Track E

08:00

TCI General Assembly

Plenary on Poverty — Panel Discussion

Neva Makgetla, Kate Philip & Ben Turok [TBC]
 

Addressing Inequality & Marginalisation 1

Industrial & Innovation Policy 1

Agricultural Policy & Land Reform 1

09:15

Report back from Regional Meetings:


• India

Amit Kapoor

• Africa (PACF)

Nawangwe Barnabas

• Latin America

Alonso Ramos



Report back from Workshop on Hot Topics

Alberto Pezzi  and  Elisabeth Waelbroeck-Rocha

 

Report back on Climate Innovation

Lars Ekland, Immediate Past President, TCI

 

Inter-Generational Transfer of Poverty: Fact or Fiction? (1993-2004)

Antonie Pool, University of the Free State, South Africa

Panel Discussion on Industrial & Innovation Policy

Simon Roberts, Competition Commission
Mike Morris, UCT & UKZN, South Africa
Miriam Altman, HSRC, South Africa

A Review of Agricultural Policy Post–1994

Norma Tregurtha, ComMark, South Africa

 

 

Poverty and Government Transfers in South Africa

Jean-Pierre Geldenhuys, University of the Free State, South Africa

Evaluating Land Reform's Contribution to Pro–poor growth in South Africa

Dr Ward Anseeuw & Ntombifuthi Mathebula, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Refugees & Forced Migrants in SA Urban Areas: Definitions, Rights, Level of Wellbeing & Policy

Talita Dalton-Greyling, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Achieving AsgiSA Aspirations: The Role of the National System of Innovation

Rachel Jafta & Willem Boshoff, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

A Review of Resource–poor Small Scale Farming Post–1994

Tim Hart, HSRC, South Africa

10:30

Refreshments

11:00

The State of the Measurement & Evaluation of Cluster Initiatives

Prof Örjan Sölvell, Stockholm School of Economics


Addressing Inequality & Marginalisation 2

Industrial & Innovation Policy 2

Land Reform 2: Tenure Reform – Issues & Approaches

 

Think Piece - Strategies for the Second Economy: A Conceptual Framework

Kate Philip, TIPS, South Africa

Industrial Policy in South Africa

Matthew Stern, DNA Africa & Frank Flatters, Queens University, South Africa

 

Informal Land Markets in Communal Areas as a Way of Increasing Arable Production

Mompati N Baiphethi,HSRC, Siyabulela Manona, Independent Development Trust/Umhlaba Consulting and MF Viljoen & G Kundhlande, University of the Free State, South Africa

 

 

Think Piece - The Community Work Programme: Exploring a Minimum Employment Guarantee

The Role of Industrial Policy and the Minerals & Energy Complex in the decline of South Africa's Textile and Clothing Sector

Lotto Takala, South Africa

Overview of Issues faced by Beneficiary Communities

Ruth Hall, PLAAS, South Africa

Creating Wealth from Knowledge and Innovation

Mansoor Mohammed, City of Cape Town

Think Piece - Informal Economy

Title and Speaker to be confirmed

Testing for Linkages in Sectoral Development: An SVAR Approach to SA

Oliver Schwank & Michael Wild, Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration

Finance: How is it being approached by the Public and Private Sectors? How Could it be Done Better?

John Howell & Gerhard Coetzee, University of Pretoria
Nick Vink, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

12:30

Closing Session: Pulling the Strands Together
Esko Aho, Prof Raphie Kapinsky, Prof Dorothy McCormick, Burton Mwamila, Nimrod Zalk

13:00

Lunch
 

14:00

Addressing Inequality & Marginalisation 3

Industrial & Innovation Policy 3

Land Reform 3

   

How Tenure Security can increase access to Economic Opportunities for the Poor: An Initiative of the Presidency

Lauren Royston, Development Works & Leap, South Africa

Zoning in on South Africa's Industrial Development Zones

Vanessa Tang, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Think Piece - Management: Skilled Partners, Mentors, Training – Lessons from Current Private Sector Initiatives

Mohammed Karaan & Johann Van Rooyen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
   

Informal Settlement Upgrading: Proposals from the Second Economy Strategy Process

Tanya Zack, Urban Landmark

Territorial Competitiveness & Development Policy

James Wilson, Orkestra, Basque Institute of Competitiveness

Finance, Management, Marketing (& Other) Issues – Mpumalanga Experience and Alternative Approaches

Chris Williams, TRAC
Niel van Zyl, TIPS, South Africa
   

LED and Local Government

 Edgar Pieterse, UCT, South Africa

A Proposal of Regional Development in Mexico through Industrial Clusters

Prof Juan Carlos Neri Guzman, University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Panel Discussion on Agricultural Policy & Land Reform

The Panel will include: Departments of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Dr Andre Jooste from the National Agricultural Marketing Council; private sector practitioners from the banking and agricultural management sectors (Mr Bankies Malan, ABSA & Dr John Purchase, CEO, Agricultural Business Chamber) and an academic expert, Dr Stuart Ferrer from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

15:30

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