Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world. Topics include Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth
Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions
Participation, Inclusion and Results and Scaling Up and Evaluation. Contributors to the volume include, Nicholas Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
Azim Hasham Premji, Chairman of Bangalore's Wipro Corporation
Francois Bourguignon of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Possiy, France
Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University
Justin Lin of Hong Kong University
Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Jean Philippe Platteau of the University of Namur, Belgium
Karen Polenske of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
T. N. Srinivasan, of Yale University
and Anthony Venables of the London School of Economics.