Conferences

One issue, several themes

Whether we consider climate change, transmissible diseases, financial crises or the protection of biodiversity, the comprehensive analysis of vital global issues suffers from deeply ingrained disciplinary boundaries. For instance, when considering regimes of global governance, scholars of International Relations still largely focus on big institutions, big summits and big deals: they provide a « macro » look at these issues while paying limited attention to sub-national actors and dynamics unless they affect international negotiations. In contrast, social scientists working within other disciplinary paradigms provide detailed accounts of how vested local interests and power games affect global issues in situ and have substantial impacts on the implementation of national policies and cooperation programs.  Yet, few of these scholars seem to deploy these fine-grained local data to enrich current thinking about global governance and relevant forms of international cooperation. 

In this context, the analysis of the global impacts of local politics and power relations remains a largely unexplored continent. This analytical domain is still not identified as a research area in its own right, even though it has the potential to engage a vast, multi-disciplinary research community. Social, economic and political research concerning interactions across local and global scales still lacks systematic analysis, conceptual tools and organized debates – notably among policy makers who might be constrained by concerns over national sovereignty. Nevertheless, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary research may reveal relevant global governance schemes yet to be imagined that would supplement, rather than challenge, national sovereignty. All of this argues for a renewed look at how domestic and international socio-economic and political actors interact recursively across scales, including the manner in which local politics is redefined by global actors and constraints.

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Travel, hotel and per diem expenses of contributors (on a 2 night basis) will be reimbursed. 

Contact persons:

• Pr. Alan Kolata (University of Chicago) a-kolata@uchicago.edu
• Dr. Virginie Diaz Pedregal (AFD) diazv@afd.fr
• Dr. Olivier Charnoz (AFD) charnoz@afd.fr

The University of Chicago is a comprehensive research university with over 2000 full time faculty members working in the physical, biological and social sciences, the humanities, and the professional schools, including medicine, law and business.  The University counts 87 Nobel Laureates, including 8 current faculty members, among its multiple research and educational distinctions.

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The French Development Agency (AFD) is France’s international cooperation agency. As a bilateral development bank, it works in over 70 countries providing, in 2010, close to 7 billion euros through various financing tools and across all economic and social sectors. Its Research Department produces and publishes research studies, organizes seminars and conferences, and participates actively in several international networks. One of its research programme (led by Olivier Charnoz) deals with the global impacts of local power relations. 

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L'ouvrage

Le continent africain connait le plus fort taux de croissance urbaine de la planète. Dans beaucoup de pays, il semble que le retard des investissements urbains réalisés par rapport aux considérables besoins induits par la croissance démographique ne diminue pas mais, au contraire, s’aggrave. Un changement d’échelle dans les montants d’investissements s’impose.

Parallèlement à la poursuite des efforts pour augmenter la solvabilité et améliorer la gouvernance des collectivités, les modalités et systèmes de financement sont à repenser. Ce livre offre un éclairage méthodologique de la problématique de l’investissement local à l’usage des décideurs et des opérationnels. Il propose des pistes concrètes pour moderniser les systèmes de financement de l’investissement, promouvoir l’implication du secteur privé, le recours à des solutions endogènes et mobiliser de nouvelles sources de financement.

► Cliquer ici pour retrouver l'interview vidéo de l'auteur

► Découvrir sa contribution sur le blog Idées pour le Développement

► Pour commander l'ouvrage sur le site de l'éditeur, Pearson

Le programme

Le Directeur général de l’AFD, Dov Zerah, ouvrira la conférence qui sera présidée par Jean Yves Grosclaude, Directeur des opérations à l’AFD.

• 14h00 : Ouverture par le Directeur général
• 14h15 : Présentation de l’ouvrage par l’auteur Thierry Paulais
• 14h45 : Interventions des panélistes à partir de leur lecture de l’ouvrage
• Discussions avec la salle
• 16h00 : Clôture par le président de séance.

Les intervenants

• Jean-Pierre ELONG MBASSI, Secrétaire Général de Cités et gouvernements locaux unis Afrique
• Karim MANSOURI, Directeur général du Fonds d’équipement communal, Maroc
• Jean-Pierre MARCELLI, Directeur de l’agence de l’AFD en Egypte
• Vincent RENARD, Directeur de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Conseiller à la direction de l’Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales IDDRI
• Néjib TRABELSI, Directeur Général de la Caisse de prêts et de soutien aux collectivités locales, Tunisie

The conference is devoted to investigating channels through which international migration affects economic and social outcomes of developing countries. Possible topics include social networks and diaspora externalities, remittances, return migration, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI, brain drain, migration and institutional/technological change, migration and health, and the effect of emigration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation in developing countries.

Mme Laurence Wunderle : wunderlel@afd.fr

► Keynote speakers :

• Alberto Alesina, Harvard University,
• Imran Rasul, University College London,
• Dean Yang, University of Michigan

►  Program Committee:

Ran Abramitsky (Stanford), Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse), Michel Beine (Université du Luxembourg), Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development), Frederic Docquier (Université catholique de Louvain), Giovanni Facchini (Erasmus University), Flore Gubert (DIAL, Université de Paris-Dauphine), Marc Gurgand (Ecole d’Economie de Paris), Hubert Jayet (EQUIPPE, Université de Lille), William Kerr (Harvard Business School), Sylvie Lambert (Ecole d’Economie de Paris), Thierry Mayer (Sciences-Po), David McKenzie (Banque mondiale), Çağlar Özden (Banque mondiale), Hillel Rapoport (Chair, Bar-Ilan University and EQUIPPE), Maurice Schiff (Banque mondiale), Antonio Spilimbergo (FMI), Dean Yang (University of Michigan), Yves Zenou (Stockholm).

► Organizers :

• Michael Clemens (CGD),
• Thomas Melonio (AFD),
• Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University et EQUIPPE)

À travers des études de cas portant sur la Tunisie, le Maroc et la Mauritanie, les intervenants proposeront une analyse en termes d’économie politique du « printemps arabe ».

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Alors que les débats se focalisent sur les réformes constitutionnelles, les élections et les transformations politiques, la restitution portera sur les revendications sociales qui ont été sous-jacentes aux revendications politiques : les demandes en matière d’emploi, de niveau de vie, d’intégration dans la société ont-elles été prises en compte ?

Jean-François Bayart, Irene Bono, Béatrice Hibou, Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, Boris Samuel et Mohamed Tozy présenteront les résultats de leurs études, en présence de plusieurs acteurs sociaux maghrébins : 

• Adnane Hajji, leader de la révolte du Bassin minier de Gafsa en 2008
• Ridha Raddaoui, avocat militant des droits de l’Homme
• Slim Tissaoui, secrétaire général de la fédération régionale de l’UGTT de Jendouba
• Samir Rhabi, l’un des acteurs clefs du soulèvement à Kasserine
• Kamal Lahbib, l’un des participants critiques du « Mouvement du 20 février »
• Mohamed Soual, conseiller du président de l'OCP

Le séminaire sera introduit par Dov Zerah, directeur général de l’AFD.

One issue, several themes

Whether we consider climate change, transmissible diseases, financial crises or the protection of biodiversity, the comprehensive analysis of vital global issues suffers from deeply ingrained disciplinary boundaries. For instance, when considering regimes of global governance, scholars of International Relations still largely focus on big institutions, big summits and big deals: they provide a « macro » look at these issues while paying limited attention to sub-national actors and dynamics unless they affect international negotiations. In contrast, social scientists working within other disciplinary paradigms provide detailed accounts of how vested local interests and power games affect global issues in situ and have substantial impacts on the implementation of national policies and cooperation programs.  Yet, few of these scholars seem to deploy these fine-grained local data to enrich current thinking about global governance and relevant forms of international cooperation. 

In this context, the analysis of the global impacts of local politics and power relations remains a largely unexplored continent. This analytical domain is still not identified as a research area in its own right, even though it has the potential to engage a vast, multi-disciplinary research community. Social, economic and political research concerning interactions across local and global scales still lacks systematic analysis, conceptual tools and organized debates – notably among policy makers who might be constrained by concerns over national sovereignty. Nevertheless, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary research may reveal relevant global governance schemes yet to be imagined that would supplement, rather than challenge, national sovereignty. All of this argues for a renewed look at how domestic and international socio-economic and political actors interact recursively across scales, including the manner in which local politics is redefined by global actors and constraints.

Your contribution | What is needed and when

We call for papers that investigate domestic power relations, how local interest games generate international impacts, through what channels and mechanisms these impacts emerge, how local politics is redefined by global networks and discourses and whether current forms of international cooperation and global governance regimes are well or ill-adapted to these challenges.

Possible research subjects may include, but are not limited to, the epistemology of scale analysis, climate change, environmental protection, global health, food security, financial crisis, international security, social violence in fragile states, the international trade in narcotics, human trafficking, terrorism, and money laundering.

The organizers welcome contributions from scholars in all fields of the social sciences, including economics, anthropology, political science, philosophy or sociology, who include in their research agenda efforts to  analyze the interaction of local and global issues and interest groups.

Proposals should take the form of extended abstracts that incorporate a description of the selected theme, the research question, the methodology and data, key results, potential policy recommendations, and a short reference list of related empirical or theoretical works. Decisions will be communicated by April 1^st 2012.

We will request the submission of full conference papers ranging between 8-12.000 words no later than 1st May 2012, in order to permit pre-circulation among conference participants. The pre-circulation of papers is essential to the success of this highly interactive conference.

Conference papers will be considered for potential publication as an edited book co-sponsored by AFD and the University of Chicago.

More information

Travel, hotel and per diem expenses of contributors (on a 2 night basis) will be reimbursed. 

Contact persons:

• Pr. Alan Kolata (University of Chicago) a-kolata@uchicago.edu
• Dr. Virginie Diaz Pedregal (AFD) diazv@afd.fr
• Dr. Olivier Charnoz (AFD) charnoz@afd.fr

The University of Chicago is a comprehensive research university with over 2000 full time faculty members working in the physical, biological and social sciences, the humanities, and the professional schools, including medicine, law and business.  The University counts 87 Nobel Laureates, including 8 current faculty members, among its multiple research and educational distinctions.

Go to the University of Chicago website

The French Development Agency (AFD) is France’s international cooperation agency. As a bilateral development bank, it works in over 70 countries providing, in 2010, close to 7 billion euros through various financing tools and across all economic and social sectors. Its Research Department produces and publishes research studies, organizes seminars and conferences, and participates actively in several international networks. One of its research programme (led by Olivier Charnoz) deals with the global impacts of local power relations. 

Pour s'inscrire à la conférence

Cette conférence débutera par une présentation du programme de santé par Pascale le Roy, responsable de programme – micro-assurance au GRET.

David Levine, professeur à l’Université de Berkeley, présentera ensuite la méthode d’évaluation utilisée dans cette étude, les principaux résultats obtenus ainsi que les difficultés rencontrées et les résultats complémentaires sur les mécanismes de sélection à l'oeuvre dans SKY.

Pour en savoir plus sur le projet

Télécharger le rapport de cette étude sur le site de SKY (en anglais)