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PhD Workshops on the World Bank

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

Five workshops were held so far:

Outcomes

NEW! 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

About 70 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 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.