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Seminars and Workshops

EDRI in collaboration with the Environment for Development (EfD) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) organized a consultative workshop on “Clean Energy Transition in Ethiopia: Toward Identifying Key Knowledge Gaps.” The workshop was held on June 1, 2015 at the Capital Hotel and Spa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

EDRI-ESSP workshops in this quarter:“Implications of Agricultural Productivity Growht for structural change and employment in Ethiopia” by Paul Dorosh (IFPRI), Sherman Robin-son (IFPRI), and James Thurlow (IFPRI) April 9, 2015

“Household perception and demand for better land rights protection in the era of agricultural transformation in Ethiopia” by Hosaena Ghebru April 15, 2015

“Land expropriation, peri-urbanization and income diversification: evi-dence from peri-urban Tigray, Northern Ethiopia” by Tsega G. Mezgebo (Mekelle University) May 8, 2015. “State inducement Versus Self-initiation: A comparative Study of Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia” by Girum Abebe (EDRI) April 3, 2015.

Conference participation• Alebel Bayrau, a research fellow at EDRI took part in the East

African Social Science Translation Collaborative (EASST) annual impact evaluation summit 8-11 July 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya orga-nized by the Center for Global Action Center based at the university of California Berkeley USA.

• Frew Bekelle, associate researcher at EDRI participated in a work-shop on Strengthening Capacities in Gender Analysis for Sub-Saha-ran African Countries organized by the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), Advocates Coalition for Development and Envi-ronment (ACODE) and TTI-IDRC from 6-9 July 2015 in Kampala, Uganda.

Papers presented by EDRI staff at the 13th international conference on the Ethiopian economy organized by the Ethiopian Economics Association (23-25 July, 2015)• Abdulaziz Behiru Shifa: “Information Technology and Fiscal

Capacity in a Developing Country: Evidence from Ethiopia”• Andualem Telaye: “Distribution of Effective Tax Burden

Across firms in Ethiopia”• Abdulaziz Shifa, Merima Ali: “Over-taxation or tax-evasion?”• Girum Abebe: “Local Spillovers from Foreign Direct Invest-

ment in the Ethiopian Manufacturing Sector.”

Publications

Research Report 22. “Micro-insurance Business and the In-stitutional and Legal Environ-ment: Literature Review and Analysis”

Research Report 23: “Produc-tivity and Welfare Impact of Climate Change in Sugarcane and Cotton Producing Regions of Ethiopia”

Research Report 24: “Vul-nerability analyses of Climate Change Impact on Cotton and Sugarcane Commodities in Ethiopia”

Research Report 25: “Value Chain Analyses for a Climate Resilient Production of Cotton and Sugarcane Commodities in Ethiopia”

Research Report 26: “Adap-tation Strategy Options for a Climate Resilient Production of Agriculture Export Commodi-ties in Ethiopia”

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The Ethiopian Development Research Institute in col-laboration with University College London and other

partners launched a research project titled “Interaction between Industrial Policies and Green Economy Strat-egies in Ethiopia” on 4 May, 2015 at the Capital Hotel & Spa, Addis Ababa. The workshop was opened with an introduction and overview by Dr. Mulu Gebreeyesus, a senior research-er at EDRI and one of the coordina-tors of the project. This was followed by opening remarks from H.E Ato Neway Gebre-ab, Executive Director of EDRI and Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister; H.E. Ato Kare

Chawicha, State Minister of the Min-istry of Environment and Forest; and Ato Tadesse Haile, State Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Presentations were made by the project coordinators on the project background, objectives and methods inspiring questions and comments from participants. Dr. Mulu present-ed “The gaps and priorities in main-streaming CRGE in industrial policy in Ethiopia” followed by Project ob-jectives, work streams and partners by Professor Yacob Mulugeta, Univer-sity College London. Professor Kevin from Quantum Global, Switzerland gave a brief on “Building credible and sustainable innovation systems for green industrialization” followed by

Project Launch Workshop: Industrial Policy

“Governance and policy integration issues and green economy strategies” by Dr. Chukwumerije Okereke of Reading University. Participants of the workshop in-cluded, experts from government ministries, different United Nations organizations, universities, interna-tional development organizations and researchers in the area. The project has been initiated in response to Ethiopia’s ambitious strategy for a Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) and the need to provide practical policy that would help to streamline this strategy with Ethiopia’s industrial sector strategy in the coming 5-year development plan (GTP II)

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The International Growth Cen-tre held its annual Africa Growth Forum in Addis Aba-

ba, Ethiopia from 29 June – 1 July. In this annual conference, researchers, academics and policy makers were brought together and presentations on topics pertinent to IGC partner counties were made.

The sessions included:• A public lecture by Professor John

Sutton (LSE) titled “Can Sub-Sa-haran Africa Industrialise? Les-sons from History on 29 June, 2015 at the Sheraton Addis Hotel.

• An introductory session that in-cluded welcoming remarks from Dr. Alemayehu Seyoum, Country Director of IGC Ethiopia.

• H.E Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia gave some remarks on the ques-tion Can Africa Industrialise?

Framework Session: presentation by Professor Jakob Svensson (IIES, Stockholm University)

• Firms: focusing on the deter-minants of productivity, con-straints to productivity, and the means with which gov-ernments can increase pro-ductivity

• Increasing agricultural pro-ductivity in Africa

Session 1: Mobile Money : Exper-imentation and impact of mobile money

Three presentations were made:• Experimenting with Mobile

Money by William Jack• Mobile Money: Impact and

Challengers by Tomas Mabu-lambi

• Transfers and Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Designs and Preliminary Re-sults from Mozambique by

Pedro C. Vicente • Panel Discussion: The global en-

ergy and growth challenge. A pre-sentation was made by Dr. Robin Burgess on Energy and Growth focusing on the challenges of se-curing reliable energy access to fuel sustainable growth in de-veloping countries. This was fol-lowed by a panel discussion with panelists Anjani Kumar Singh, Chief Secretary of the Govern-ment of Bihar and Robert Sogb-adji (Ghanaian Ministry of Pow-er)

• Conference Dinner Keynote speech by Professor Tony Ven-ables on Growing African Cities: Economic Principles for func-tional cities

• Framework Session: Improving the delivery of services

Presentations were made by Professor Oriana Bandiera on the impact of ca-

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reer incentives on selection/recruit-ment of community health workers as well as their performance during service. Dr. Rachel Glennerster on “Learning from research to improve health de-livery: The case of Sierra Leone” Andrew Zeitlin presented a study on “Improving Services Delivery: An as-sessment of Absenteeism Data” • Session 2: Taxation: Reforms to

improve revenue collections and widen the tax base

• Session 3: Building resilient economies – Lessons from Ebola

Panel Discussion: • Cities and urbanization in Africa• Key transformational challenges

in Africa Framework Session: Firms

More on: (http://www.theigc.org/event/africa-growth-forum-2015/ )

Urbanization WorkshopOn 2 July 2015, the urbanization workshop following the AGF with a whole day session that commenced with opening remarks by Dr. Ale-mayehu Seyoum highlighting struc-tural transformation processes for the success of growing cities. This was followed by a key note speech by H.E. Mekuria Haile, Minister of Urban Development and a presentation on Ethiopian Cities Sustainable Prosper-ity Initiative by H.E. Ato Abuye Ale-mu, Advisor to the Ethiopian Minis-ter of Urban Development, Housing & Construction. Professor Tony Venables and Pro-fessor Sir Paul Collier presented on what a good city looks like and how it is formed. The workshop brought together three studies made on dif-ferent African cities including Addis Ababa. The first was presented by Dr. Simon Franklin of LSE on location, housing and labor markets in Addis

Ababa. The second presenter, Dr. Pa-tricia Jones of University of Oxford presented her recent work on entre-preneurship and firm productivity in Tanzania. Julia Bird, University of Oxford lastly presented her current study on path dependence and infra-structure in African cities focusing on the capital of Uganda, Kampala. The final session was a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Jones and panelists in-cluded H.E. Newai Gebreab, Execu-tive Director, Ethiopian Development Research Institute & Chief Econom-ic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Dr. Alemayehu Seyoum, Professor Sir Collier, and Professor Venables. The session focused on dis-cussing key challenges in urbaniza-tion for Addis Ababa in the coming years and it came to a close with the conclusion from H.E. Neway that it is important to encourage private sector real estate developers. http://www.theigc.org/event/igc-ethiopia-urbanisation-workshop/

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