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Scholarly International Activities and Professional Foreign Travel 1
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
The faculty and research associates continued their international work in 2000 at an even more vigorous pace than in previous years. Working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was on the ground in twenty-six countries during the year.
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Special Events
Long Term Visitors
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Anne Gronski, from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests focused on analyzing the role of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in fostering economic growth in South Africa.
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Avinash Samboo, from the University of Mauritius. His research interests focused on the social security system.
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Min Zhao, from the Minstry of Public Security, part of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Her research interests focused on Science and Technology Policy.
Short Visits
Dean Roy Bahl, Center Directors and Department Chairs met with Dean Sibusisio Vil-Nkomo, Professor Chabani Manganyi (Advisor to the President - University of Pretoria), and Dr. Johan Hendrikz (Marketing Director from the University of Pretoria) to discuss collaborative research and teaching programs. Included was a demonstration of the Experimental Economics Lab. The South African visitors then traveled with Dean Bahl, Ambassador John Hicks and Ambassador Andrew Young to New York City to meet with the Carnegie Corporation, The Ford Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, October 30, 2000.
Roy Bahl, John Hicks, Paula Stephan, Jim Alm, Bob Moore, Mary Beth Walker, Susan Laury, David Sjoquist, Sally Wallace, Jamie Boex** and Glen Ross met with Professor Andrew Downs, University Director, and Ms. Gale Hall, Assistant Registrar, of Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Change, University of West Indies Mona Campus - Jamaica Campus. Included was a demonstration of the Experimental Economics Lab. The purpose of the meetings was to explore possibilities for research collaboration and student/faculty exchanges. November 20, 2000.
Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and James Alm met with Mr. Alfonzo Dhlakama, leader of the political opposition group, Renamo Party in Mozambique, who was visiting the Georgia State University Political Science Department. Professor Carrie Manning of the Political Science Department coordinated the visit. August 11, 2000.
Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez met with Mr. Yunus Carrim, a South African Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee of Local and Provincial Government in the National Assembly. Professor Carrie Manning of the Political Science Department coordinated the visit, August 11, 2000.
Roy Bahl, John Hicks, Fenwick Huss, John Thomas, Charlotte Steeh, James Ledbetter and Kathleen Banks met with Mr. Lucky Mathebula, Director-designate of the new South African Association for Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM). Included was a demonstration of the Experimental Economics Lab. February 15 and 16, 2000.
Roy Bahl, John Hicks and Fenwick Huss met with Ms. Thami Ngwevela, South African Consulate General, February 1, 2000.
Ms. Robin Sanders, Director of Africa at the National Security Council, spoke to graduate students and faculty on the topic of the "Future of Africa," February 23, 2000.
Atef Ghobrial hosted two professors from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to explore possibilities for joint research and educational activities with Georgia State University, September 2000. Professor Respecio Santos, Jr. was invited to give a presentation on the airport system in Brazil to students in the airport planning and management course.
Other Activities
signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and the Governor of Anambra State, Nigeria, Dr. C. C. Mbadinuju, in which the Andrew Young School agreed to help in the design of curriculum of a new university in Anambra State, and to institute faculty and student exchanges, May 2000.
See International Studies Program.
See Jameson Boex.
was invited to present a paper on "Reforming Drug Distribution System in Korea: Correcting the Economic Incentives" for the Korean American Economics Association at the Allied Social Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., January 2001.
was invited to discuss a paper on "Impact of Economic Crisis on Health Care Systems" for the International Health Economics Association, York, England, Summer 2001.
served on the Advisory Council for the Ph.D. program in fiscal studies at the Lyceum of the Philippines.
is Honorary Professor, School of Public Management and Administration, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
served as Principal Economic Advisor for IBM's Worldwide Tax Group.
serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in Taiwan and served as a member of the Executive Committee.
presented "Implementation Rules For Fiscal Decentralization" for the Monetary and Fiscal Policy, and Poverty and Public Policy Seminar for the International Institute for Social Change in Bangalore, India, January, 2000.
traveled to Hyderabad, India to advise the government on fiscal decentralization issues, January, 2000.
traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to advise the Department of Provincial and Local Government Finance on matters related to Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and taxation, January, 2000.
traveled to Indonesia to advise the government on fiscal decentralization and revenue sharing. February-March, 2000.
presented "Fiscal Federalism at the Turn of the Century: New Dimensions" as part of the core course on Urban and City Management sponsored by the World Bank, University of Buenos Aires and the Municipality of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 11, 2000.
presented a lecture on "An International Economic Perspective on Two-Rate Tax and Property Tax" as part of the conference, The Mexican Experience With Split Rate Taxation And Its Implications, sponsored by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Tijuana, Mexico, June 18-21, 2000
presented two days of lectures on "Fiscal Federalism in Developing and Transition Countries" at the Asian Development Bank, Tokyo, Japan, July, 2000.
presented two days of lectures on "Decentralization Framework in Developing Countries" at a course sponsored by the Decentralization Thematic Group and World Bank Institute, Washington D.C., July, 2000.
traveled to Indonesia to advise USAID and the government on fiscal decentralization and special autonomy provisions. Also traveled within Indonesia and presented two lectures: "Fiscal Decentralization and Interregional Trade" at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia, July, 2000 and "Fiscal Autonomy" at the Syiah Kuala University, Aceh, Indonesia, July 31, 2000.
traveled to Indonesia to advise on natural resource revenue sharing, and presented three lectures: "Decentralization and Revenue Sharing" at the University of Riau, Indonesia, October 3, 2000; "The Indonesian Economic Recovery in Changing Environment" at the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the FEUI Conference, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 4, 2000; and "Revenue Sharing" at the University of Cendrawasih, West Papua Indonesia, October 9, 2000.
and Sally Wallace presented "Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Leningrad Region," Southern Economics Association, Washington D.C., November 11, 2000.
traveled to South Africa to advise the government on local authority finances. He also presented "Local Government Finance: A Comparative Perspective" at Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2000.
served as a peer reviewer for The World Bank on projects in Pakistan, Indonesia and Tanzania.
traveled to Awka and Abuja in Nigeria, for two weeks with James Alm to advise the Anambra State Government on fiscal policy and fiscal management issues. The objective of the study is to assess the fiscal capacity of Anambra State to carry out major capital infrastructure projects in light of the Awka Capital Territory Master Plan, October 2000.
and James Alm met with senior officials of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in Accra, Ghana. During one day of meetings, they discussed options for supporting the decentralization program in Ghana, and established a cooperative relationship with the Institute of Local Government Studies, October 2000.
traveled to Malawi for two weeks as a Team Leader for a UNCDF-funded study of intergovernmental transfers in the context of Malawi's fiscal decentralization program, December 2000.
See the International Studies Program.
See Rick Charles.
and Arthur C. Brooks presented "The Economic Impact of Avionics Standardization on the Airline Industry" at the ARINC Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee General Session in Vienna, Austria, November 13, 2000.
serves on the editorial board of the Civil Aviation Magazine published by the Ministry of Aviation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
served as a referee for the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.
refereed a multi-million dollar proposal for the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Quebec Government.
presented "Combating Aviation Terrorism," in the fifth annual conference on disaster and emergency management sponsored by Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, October 2000.
served as a visiting professor at The Essec Graduate School of Management, Cergy Pontoise, France from January to June, 2000. She taught and conducted research in the master of business administration program shared with Cornell University.
served as a referee for the Association Francophone de Gestion des Ressoures Humaines (the French Association of Human Resource Management).
co-directed a USIA grant (with Dean Karen Schultz, COE) to develop research and curriculum linkages in the Cote d'Ivoire. (final year).
presented "Using Evaluation Findings for Policy: A Realist Perspective" at the European Evaluation Society Biennial Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 13, 2000.
received the Medal of Merit for Educational Contribution from the Poznan University of Economics and the Polish Ministry of Education during the University's academic-year inauguration ceremony, October 6, 2000.
presented "Industrial Relations Theory," at the International Industrial Relations Association Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 2, 2000.
presented "American Labor Markets and Employment Policy," to visiting members of the Swedish Parliament at Fisher & Phillips Law Firm, Atlanta, Ga., March 2, 2000.
presented "Further Reflections on Prospect Theory" (co-author: Charles Holt) and chaired and served as a discussant in a session on Public Goods at the European Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 20, 2000.
presented "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects" (co-author: Charles Holt) and "The Georgia Auction of Irrigation Permits" (co-authors Ron Cummings and Charles Holt) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Summer School in Experimental Economics, University of Lyon, Lyon, France, July 6, 2000.
See also Experimental Economics Lab.
traveled to Beijing and Gausu, China as a member of a public expenditure review at the provincial level in China and wrote a series of reports for the World Bank on intergovernmental finance issues, December 2000.
traveled to Prague, Czech Republic, as a member of a public expenditure review mission for the World Bank, and co-authored a report on Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform in the Czech Republic, November 2000.
traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia to advise government officials on intergovernmental fiscal relations issues. Wrote a series of notes on several issues, including the design of an equalization transfer system, USAID/IRIS, University of Maryland, October 2000.
wrote a report evaluating the current reform efforts in intergovernmental fiscal relations in Ecuador, and commented on several draft laws, InterAmerican Development Bank, July-September 2000.
traveled to Mexico and wrote two reports on tax reform in Mexico. The first was an evaluation of the efficiency equity and revenue performance of the current tax system. The second report was an evaluation of Mexico's tax policies in the context of NAFTA, World Bank, March-June 2000.
traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, provided comments on the new draft Budget Code, and made several presentations on the budget process and intergovernmental reform to government officials, World Bank, June 2000.
served as commentator for a session on Russia for the conference, "Centralization - Decentralization: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Shaping Effective States with Fragmented Societies," sponsored by The World Bank Institute and the Institute of Federalism, Switzerland, February 10-12, 2000.
presented "Making Decentralization Work: The Case of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan" at the International Monetary Fund Conference on Fiscal Decentralization, Washington, D.C., November 20-21, 2000.
served as presenter at the World Bank Institute Conference on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management in Astana, Kazakhstan in a video session from Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2000.
served as commentator for a session on Russia, at a conference on the Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Shaping Effective States within Fragmented Societies, sponsored by the World Bank Institute and the Swiss Institute of Federalism held in Murten, Switzerland, February 10-12, 2000.
served as the main speaker at a World Bank Conference on Ukraine's draft Budget Code, Kiev, Ukraine, May 2000.
presented "Evaluation of Health Education Programs in HIV/AIDS" at Makerere University, sponsored by USAID/CDC, Kampala, Uganda, November 20, 2000.
served as research committee member for Patricia Thom, master's degree in adult education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
was invited observer to the "Critical Issues in Global Health Symposium," sponsored by the National Center for Health Education and the Kellogg Foundation, Salzburg, Austria, July 8-12, 2000.
presented the keynote speech, "Globalization and Sustainable Development," at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) Conference on Sustainable Development, Dominican Republic, February 15, 2000.
See the International Studies Program.
traveled to Sydney, Australia to present papers and attend meetings of the International Western Economic Association, January 2000.
served as Session Chair and Discussant at the Conference, Incentive Compatibility and the Arts, jointly sponsored by FOKUS (Austrian Arts Association) and the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Vienna, Austria, January 26-28, 2000.
served as external reviewer for a master's thesis at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa ("Towards More Accurate Measurement of the Value of Arts to Society: Economic Impact and Willingness to Pay Studies at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival").
presented "Economics of Science" at the Leangkollen Workshop, Leangkollen, Norway, April 27-28, 2000.
has been invited to present "Bioinformatics: Human Resources Bottlenecks and Opportunities" at the International Symposium on Advances in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Bangalore, India, January 15-17, 2001.
visited the Institute of Management and Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 12-16, 2000, to discuss possible collaborative programming.
was invited to participate as an expert in an initiative of the government of Bulgaria in its membership negotiations with the European Union, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2000.
co-chaired a symposium on the transition process in Bulgaria, at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech Research Institute, at which the key speaker was the Bulgarian representative to the UN, April 2000.
presented "Privatization of Social and Mental Health Policy in Georgia" to a group of 25 international dignitaries sponsored by the Council for International Visitors, May 4, 2000.
spoke with Ms. Hurytova of the Czech Republic regarding the state of nonprofit education in the United States and Georgia, sponsored by the Council for International Visitors, May 19, 2000.
received a grant from the U.S. Information Agency in Mexico to travel to the University of Guanajuato, to present a workshop on voluntary smog reduction programs, discuss the establishment of a doctoral program in economics, and work on research projects with Professor Fred Wallace of the University, Guanajuato, Mexico, July 14 - 30, 2000.
met with Frida A. Mwenegoba, Rebecca Zeigler Mano, and Babacar Ndiaye, who serve as cultural affairs assistants or educational advisors for the U.S. Embassy in a number of African countries, and discussed graduate programs in the AYSPS and how students from Africa might benefit from the various graduate programs at GSU.
See Roy Bahl.
visited the Three Gorges Dam project in central China in May and toured the portion of the Yangtze River that will be flooded as part of a flood mitigation and hydroelectric power project. Some of his observations will be presented at a conference designed to coordinate with the opening of a disaster research center at the University of Seoul in Fall 2000.
hosted a visit on February 21, 2000, by Mr. Devinder Nath, Under-Secretary, and Mr. V.P. Pasrigja, Assistant Director, of the Natural Disaster Management Division of the Ministry of Agriculture of India, to discuss strengthening India's disaster management capacity.
served as outside evaluator for an Australian thesis in a Masters of Business Management degree program at the University of Ballarat. The subject of research was action learning in a community organization that mounts an annual Ballarat city festival.
served on the dissertation committee of Albert Barker, a former UK Proctor & Gamble executive earning his doctorate at the Revans Centre for Action Learning and Research, University of Salford, UK. The completed work explores the philosophical roots of Action Learning and details its practical development during the 20th Century by retired University of Manchester Professor, Reginald Revans.
See the International Studies Program.
presented "On Measuring Multi-dimensional Deprivation on the Basis of Aggregate Data" and "Choice and Procedures" at the 5th International Conference of Social Choice and Welfare Society, Alicante, Spain, June 28-July 2, 2000.
presented "On Consequentialism and Non-consequentialism," a joint project with Professor Kotaro Suzumura, at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, November 19 to November 26, 2000; presented "Preference over the Bargaining Problem: On the Optimality of the Nash Bargaining Solution," to the Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong, November 27, 2000; and presented "On Measuring Multi-dimensional Deprivation on the Basis of Aggregate Data," to the Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, November 27, 2000.
1. Names of visitors are highlighted in the 'Special Events' and visitors sections. In the 'Other Activities' section, All Andrew Young School of Policy Studies names are highlighted in bold. Graduate students are designated with an asterisk, former graduate students with a double asterisk, and Visiting Faculty with a triple asterisk.
