The RAD is partnering with the World Bank on a series of workshops for doctoral students whose main area of research is the World Bank Group. Each workshop brings together some 20 PhD students, World Bank staff and academics from other institutions (universities, research institutes). Young researchers present their work and discuss with World Bank experts in the relevant topic.

History

Six workshops have been held thus far:

• Stockholm, Sweden, May 2010
  Workshop was a side event of the ABCDE 2010 conference; funded by GARNET - Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation.  Workshop agenda and papers.
• Washington DC, April 2009 Workshop ReportWorkshop Agenda and Papers (click on title to open paper)
  The workshop was co-funded by the World Bank, GARNET - Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU; the Economic and Social Council (ESRC) and AusAid.
• Cape Town, South Africa, June 2008, co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, WTO, AusAid and the World Bank
  Program
  Summary Report
  Papers
• Bled, Slovenia, May 2007 co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the World Bank
• Singapore, September 2006
  co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Warwick University and the World Bank
• Budapest, April 2005 co-funded by the Central European University, Warwick University, European Commission and the World Bank

Outcomes

• More than 100 students have participated in the workshop series. After the first workshop, the participants set up a mailing list open to any student interested in the World Bank. To join the group, please go to www.yahoogroups.com, find the list "Research_on_the_World_Bank" and sign up. For more information contact Mr. Ralf Leiteritz, RAD Steering Committee member from University de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
  
  
• A section of Francine Menashy's (University of Toronto) paper presented at the 2009 PhD Workshop, can be found in her article "Education as a global good : the applicability and implications of a framework"published in Globalisation, Societies and Education, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2009, read article here.
  
  
• Stefan Ehrentraut (Potsdam University), participant in the 2009 PhD workshop, has an article on based on his paper "Decentralization and the Promise of Indigenous Peoples' Empowerment : the Case of the World Bank in Cambodia" pending publication in the Pacific Review.
  
  
• Sharifah Sekalala (Warwick University), participant in the 2008 PhD workshop, has two published papers stemming from the original paper she presented at the workshop : "Third World Access to Essential Medicines and the WTO General Council Decision 2003", King's Law Journal, Volume 21, Number 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 172-192 (Hart Publishing); and "Assessing the Contributions of the EC at the WTO in Facilitating Access to Affordable HIV/AIDS Medicines in Africa", co-authored with Stephen Kingah Sevidzen, King's Student Law Review 2008-09.
  
  
• Alexandra Gillies (University of Cambridge), participant of the 2008 PhD Workshop, authored a U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre brief 'Reforming corruption out of Nigerian oil?'. Download the document. Alexandra also published a revised version of the paper she presented at the workshop as an article entitled, 'Reputational Concerns and the Emergence of Oil Sector Transparency as an International Norm' in the March 2010 issue of the International Studies Quarterly.  Read article.
  
  
• A modified version of the paper Pascale Hatcher (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands) presented at the 2006 Singapore Workshop was published as 'The Politics of Entrapment : Parliaments, Governance and Poverty Reduction Strategies' (pp. 123-136) in R. Robison and W. Hout (eds) Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development, Routledge : New York (2009).  Read chapter.
  
  
• The paper Maria Fernanda Tuozzo (Tokyo Institute of Technology) presented at the 2005 Budapest workshop was reformulated and published as the "World Bank Influence and Institutional Reform in Argentina" in Development and Change, Volume 40, Issue 3, pp. 467-485, August 2009.  Read article.
  
  
• A book compiling papers presented during the Budapest workshop "The World Bank and Governance, a decade of reform" was published by Routledge in 2006.
  
  
• Papers from the Budapest and Singapore workshops were published in a special edition of "Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations" vol. 13, no 4.
  
  
• Participants of the Cape Town Workshop had the chance to meet with Justin Lin, World Bank's Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, as well as present their work in a parallel session of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) 2008.