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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 2001, working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad in twenty-eight countries during the year.
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Special Events
Long Term Visitors
Serghei Buruian, Deputy Head of Division, Department of Foreign Relations and Trade, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova, served as IREX visiting scholar during the fall. His research focused on Sustainable Development of Moldovan - American Trade and Investments Relations.
Hyuck Mo Kwon, Director General, Municipal Facilities Management
Office, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea, arrived in May
2001, to serve as visiting scholar for one year. He worked on several
projects, including the application of vehicle emission standards, municipal
security planning, and the operation of public gardens (such as at Callaway
Gardens in Georgia.)
Mark D. Morrison served as Visiting Faculty from Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. With expertise in water resources and environmental valuation, he assisted in setting the research agenda for the North Georgia Metropolitan Water Planning & Policy Center.
Sergey Paturyan, head of IT department in the Ministry of the State Revenues of Armenia, served as IREX visiting scholar during the spring. His research focused on tax reforms in countries that are shifting from centrally-planned to market-based economies.
Andrei Timofeev, former member of the GSU Team for the Russian Federation Fiscal Reform Project, was Visiting Scholar during January, 2001. He worked on final stages of his dissertation for his Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE at Charles University in Prague, which examines the relationship between fiscal federalism and growth in the context of transition economies.
Min Zhao was Visiting Scholar from the Ministry of Public Security, part of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Her research interests focused on Science and Technology Policy.
see also the International Studies Program.
Short Visits
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ambassador Andrew Young participated in a special foreign policy symposium moderated by Dean Bahl on March 9, 2001. Clinton and Young addressed ideas for closing the gap between rich and poor nations, promoting African economic development, and expanding the role of technology in international business. President Clinton was presented with the school's first Andrew Young Medal for Capitalism and Social Progress, for his contributions to the development of dynamic and robust free economies based on socially responsible capitalism.
President of the University of Asmara in Eritrea, Dr. Woldeab Yisak, visited the GSU campus to continue exploring linkage opportunities with the University of Asmara, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech, March 13-15, 2001.
Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Professor Johan van Zyl, visited the GSU campus to meet with President Patton and Dean Bahl, exploring additional opportunities for collaboration, and signing a memorandum of cooperation between the University of Pretoria and Georgia State University, March 21, 2001.
The International Studies Program hosted 3 South African government officials for a 2-day, intensive study tour. The group included Mr. Yunus Carrim, chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Local Government, based in Cape Town, Mr. Dithabe "Oupa" Nkoana, a senior policy researcher from the South African Local Government Association, and Mr. Mbulelo Tshangana, the Deputy Director of Municipal Finance Policy, based in the Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG). The study tour focused on finding ways to ensure equity in the property tax application legislation that is currently before the legislature in South Africa, July 9-11, 2001.
Prime Minister Martin Ziguele of the Central African Republic, with Ambassador Emmanuel Touaboy and the Prime Minister's Economic Advisor, Emanuel Fiadzo, visited to discuss Andrew Young School of Policy Studies assistance in the area of public finance relating to the IMF professional training program and possible academic exchange. He spoke on the economic challenges faced by the Central African Republic, December 4, 2001.
Manoj Shrestha, a joint secretary from Nepal, visited to discuss intergovernmental fiscal relations, December 12, 2001.
Dr. Quan Dinh, Senior Economic Advisor at USAID-Jakarta, visited
the Indonesia Program in late December. As technical officer for the Indonesian
Masters Program, he spoke with students, faculty and staff involved with
the program, collecting feedback and discussing methods for future improvements
to the program.
Dr. Paul Deuster, Economic Growth Team Leader at USAID- Jakarta, visited during the week of November 5, 2001. Dr. Deuster oversees the Indonesian Masters Program at USAID- Jakarta, and visited Georgia State to tour the campus, meet with student and faculty, and get a first-hand look at the Indonesian Masters Program at the Andrew Young School.
Other Activities
traveled to Indonesia to work on the USAID-GSU Masters Degree Program in Economics, May 2001.
and Jamie Boex worked on a study assessing the fiscal capacity of Anambra State, Nigeria, to carry out major capital infrastructure projects.
See International Studies Program.
See Jameson Boex.
presented "Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in Korea: Correcting Incentives" at the Korean American Economic Association session at the Allied Social Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, La., January 2001.
traveled to Indonesia to develop a final document for the Master Degree Program at Georgia State University, advise the government of Indonesia on Fiscal Policy, and present "Fiscal Decentralization and Interregional Trade" at the University of Indonesia, January 2001.
traveled to the University of West Indies, Jamaica, to finalize the collaboration agreement between the University of West Indies and Georgia State University, February 2001.
traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to advise the Department of Provincial and Local Government Finance on matters related to Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and taxation, March 2001.
presented "Urban Financing and Budgeting in China," via video tape for a distance learning course with the World Bank, April 10, 2001.
traveled to Taipei, Taiwan to attend the Annual Board of Directors Meeting for the International Center for Land Policy Studies Training, April 2001, and to attend the Executive Committee Meeting, November 2001.
presented a lecture on "International Experience in Implementing Decentralization" as part of a Workshop on Overcoming Obstacles in Implementing Decentralization: Learning from the International Experience sponsored by The Office of the Decentralization to Local Government Organization Committee and the World Bank in Mahboonklong, Bangkok, June 21, 2001.
wrote (with David Solomon) "The Regional Services Council Levy in South Africa: Evaluation and Reform Options," Research Triangle Institute, monograph, 2001.
traveled to New Delhi and selected Indian states to advise USAID/India during October 2001.
served as a peer reviewer for World Bank projects in Tanzania, China
and India during 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.
served as an external dissertation reviewer at the University of Mauritius.
served as an officer and a member of the Board of Directors for the Wittenberg Center in Germany.
has been invited to present a lecture at the American Chamber of Commerce of Jakarta, Indonesia, January 25, 2002.
has been invited to present "Options for Equalization," "The Elusive Quest for Local Revenue: Income & Property Taxes" and "Fiscal Decentralization: A Global and Regional Phenomenon" at the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in East Asia ASEM Sponsored Workshop, World Bank, Bali, Indonesia, January 10-11, 2002.
has been invited to work with The World Bank on a study of fiscal decentralization to the Panchayat Raj Institutions in partnership with the Government of India and the governments of Karnataka and Kerala, February 2002.
has been invited to present at the Decentralization Retreat of the World Bank in Goa, India, February 2002.
has been invited to serve as visiting professor at Gadjah Mada University in JoJakarta, Indonesia, in the Department of Economics and Development Studies.
was invited to serve as Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria,
South Africa, Spring 2002. He met with several visiting faculty from Pretoria
in preparation.
traveled to Budapest, Hungary, for one week in February 2001 to present a training module on the design of equalization grants at the Fiscal Decentralization Expert Workshop, sponsored by the World Bank Institute. He developed the training module together with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez as part of the World Bank Institute's Core Course on Fiscal Decentralization.
traveled to Lilongwe, Malawi, for two weeks in March 2001 as Team Leader for the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers Study funded by the United Nations Capital Development Fund.
traveled to Kampala, Uganda, for two days in March 2001 for discussions with the Uganda Management Institute (UMI) and the Decentralization Secretariat regarding collaboration between UMI and AYSPS on capacity building and technical assistance projects.
traveled to Moscow, Russia, in June 2001 to present "Russia's Transition Towards a New Federalism: An International Perspective" at the International Conference: Prospects of Fiscal Federalism in Russia and Other CIS Countries, Center for Fiscal Policy/Stavropol Krai Government, Golitsino (Moscow Oblast), Russia, June 2001. In addition, he conducted a workshop on intergovernmental transfers for senior Russian experts at the Center for Fiscal Policy, in the context of the Deloitte/GSU Fiscal Decentralization Project funded by USAID/Moscow.
traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, for one week in October 2001 to facilitate the UNCDF Programme Officers Workshop on Fiscal Decentralization.
in collaboration with Sally Wallace, he taught to two sessions on the use of Econometric Views in economic analysis for students in the Indonesian Masters Program in Economics.
see also James Alm.
see the International Studies Program.
served as a panelist on "Applying Biometrics for Airport Access Control," and as advisor for the conference on biometric technology in aviation security, hosted by SAGEM, a Paris-based high tech firm, and attended by European airport operators and airlines, Paris, France, May 2001.
attended the Paris Air Show in May on the invitation of SAGEM of Paris, the second largest French group in the field of telecommunications and the third largest European company in electronics for defense and security.
initiated discussions with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to pursue areas of mutual interest and develop joint efforts in aviation education.
served as co-organizer (with Agi Kiss, The World Bank) of the international symposium, "Direct Payments as an Alternative Approach to Conservation Investment," at the 16th Annual Meetings of the Society for Conservation Biology to be held in Canterbury, England, July 2002.
presented (with R. D. Simpson) "Conservación Rentable: Una Revisión de lo que Funciona con Respecto a la Conservación" at the electronic conference, "Potencialidades de los Sistemas Silvo-pastoriles para la Generación de Servicios Ambientales," jointly hosted by the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, based in Rome, Italy), November 2001.
presented "GIS applications in Oil Exploration" to a group of executives from oil companies in the Middle East, May 2001.
presented "Privatization in Transportation and Telecommunications" to a group of executives in the Middle East, while in Orlando, Fla., July 2001.
prepared a presentation for a joint program with the Ministry of Public Enterprise in Egypt, December 2001.
initiated a dialog with the Queen Nour University in Amman, Jordan for joint programs with Georgia State University, December 2001.
visited the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, to discuss a student exchange program for MSHRD and MPA students.
served as a referee for the Association Francophone de Gestion des Ressoures Humaines (the French Association of Human Resource Management).
chaired a panel on international human resources and presented "Cultural Myths in Stories about Human Resource Development: Analyzing the Cross-cultural Transfer of American Models to Germany and the Cote d'Ivoire" at the Eastern Academy of Management, San Jose, Costa Rica.
assisted the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia with curricular materials for an exchange program with the Republic of Georgia's Institute of Public Administration, and met later with four visiting Georgian faculty.
presented on the Challenges of Indonesian Economic Recovery under President Megawati at the USINDO roundtable, Washington, D.C., September 2001.
spoke on the subject of The Economy, Investment Climate and Perspective on Regional Autonomy at The U.S.-Indonesia Society (USINDO) and the Asia Society Washington Center conference on "Sizing-up Indonesia's New Leadership," in Washington, D.C., October 18, 2001.
presented on Conflict Prevention and Resolutions in Indonesia at the United Nations Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council, New York, October 22, 2001.
presented on the Indonesian Economic Update at the Indonesia-USA Chambers of Commerce, New York, October 24, 2001.
presented on the Challenges of Indonesia Economic Reform at the Financial Service Volunteer Group (under Paul Volker), New York, October 23, 2001.
attended Board of Commissioners Meetings for the Indonesian companies, PT. Unilever Indonesia and PT. Astra International, Jakarta, Dec 5-6, 2001.
serves as member of the World Bank Asia Pacific Region - Anti Corruption Advisory Group.
has been invited to present "Conflict Prevention in Indonesia," USAID and the University of California- San Diego, February 2002.
has been invited to speak on the World Bank Asia Pacific Region at the Anti Corruption Advisory Group Annual Meeting, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 4, 2002.
served as meeting organizer for the Annual Meeting of the "IR Theory and IR as a Field" Study Group, and presented "HR and IR: Commonalities and Differences" at the World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Oslo, Norway, June 28, 2001.
presented "Prospects for Early 21st Century Union Growth in the United States" at the International Conference on Union Growth, University of Toronto, April 27, 2001.
presented "Paradigms and Strategic Choices for American Industrial Relations" at the London School of Economics, London, England, December 14, 2001.
The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in
the United States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), translated
into Korean, 2001.
provided an Experimental Economics Lab Demonstration for USAID officers from Indonesia, December 2001.
see also Experimental Economics Lab.
"Aspectos Fundamentales de la Descentralizacion," Descentralizacion, Estabilidad y Desarrollo Economico: La Experiencia Internacional, Banco Central de Reserva del Peru: 2001.
presented on revenue assignment issues and budget management in China's intergovernmental fiscal relations at a conference sponsored by the World Bank, Beijing, China, March 2002.
presented "General Principles of Revenue Assignment and Transfer
Design and their Application to East Asia" at the ASEAM-World Bank
Sponsored Workshop on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in East Asia,
World Bank, Bali, Indonesia, January 2002.
presented "Tax Apportionment Issues at the Subnational Level,"
and discussed the international experience with equalization transfers,
at the World Bank Institute Conference on Fiscal Federation, Haikou, China,
November 2001.
presented "Fundamental Aspects of Fiscal Decentralization,"
a conference on international experiences and foundations of decentralization,
sponsored by the Central Bank of Peru, the International Monetary Fund
and the Inter-American Development Bank, for the government and newly
elected congress in Peru, July 2001.
presented "General Principles for Equalization Transfers" and
"Design of an Equalization Grant for Indonesia" at the Conference
on Fiscal Equalization, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia and World Bank,
April 2001.
presented "Perspective on President Putin's Reform in Intergovernmental
Fiscal Relations" at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) Conference, Moscow, January 2001.
traveled to Mexico with the World Bank to work on Tax Reform and Fiscal
Adjustment Loan, contributing to the review and analysis of proposed reforms
of the corporate and personal income tax, November 2001.
traveled to Beijing and Gansu, China, with the World Bank, as a member
of a public expenditure review at the provincial level in China; wrote
and presented a series of reports on intergovernmental finance issues
as inputs to the review report.
traveled to Chisinau, Moldova, with the World Bank to review current
reforms in intergovernmental fiscal relations and wrote a co-authored
report on analysis and options for reform, September 2001.
traveled to Indonesia with the World Bank. Analyzed the equalization
grant system and proposed several reforms, February 2001 (and planned
for January 2002).
traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia, for USAID/IRIS and the University of
Maryland to advise government officials on intergovernmental fiscal relations
issue; wrote a series of notes on several issues, including the design
of an equalization transfer system, February 2001.
wrote report for USAID Fiscal Decentralization Project in the Russian Federation, "Institutional Challenges in Financing Road Maintenance, A Review of International Practices," Atlanta, Ga., April 25, 2001.
wrote the report, "Financing Science, Research, and Development: A Review of International Practices," for the USAID Fiscal Decentralization Project in the Russian Federation, Atlanta, Ga., May 10, 2001.
wrote the report, "The Use and Accounting of Extra-Budgetary Funds: An Overview of International Practices and Lessons," for the USAID Fiscal Decentralization Project in the Russian Federation, Atlanta, Ga., May 2001.
wrote"Recommendations on Distributing Regional Grants to Local Governments"
and "An Introduction to International Practices and Best Principles
in the Design of Capital Transfers" for the USAID Fiscal Decentralization
Project in the Russian Federation, Atlanta, Ga., September 2001.
served on the World Bank Advisory Board for the Russian Federation.
served as a member of the international panel advising the Government of Indonesia in the Reform of Equalization Transfers.
served as a member on the World Bank Panel for Indonesian Fiscal Decentralization Strategy (2001-2002).
has been invited to present "General Principles of Revenue Assignment and Transfer Design and their Application to East Asia" at the ASEAM-World Bank Sponsored Workshop on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in East Asia, to be held in Bali, Indonesia, January 2002.
served as the host advisor to the visiting scholars Sergey Paturyan and Serghei Buruian for the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program (CI).
was invited to serve as a selection committee member for the IREX Contemporary Issues Program and the Regional Scholar Exchange Program.
served as a member/advisor on the dissertation committee for Andrei Timofeev,
Charles University, CERGE, Prague, Czech Republic.
presented "Use of Logic Models in Program Evaluation" for a pre-conference workshop, presented "Building Evaluation Capacity," and served as session monitor at the annual conference of the Australian Evaluation Society, Canberra, Australia, October 12, 2001.
presented "Beyond the Collection of Surveillance Information" at Monitoring Health Behaviors - Towards Global Surveillance, the Second International Conference, sponsored by the National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, Atlanta, Ga., and the World Health Organization, Tuusula, Finland, October 1-3, 2001.
led a team that conducted an assessment of the USAID sponsored tax administration reform project in the Republic of Georgia, March 2001.
co-directed, with Roy Bahl, a team that assessed the prospects for USAID to become involved in State Fiscal Reform in India, Fall 2001.
taught one week of the training seminar "Budgeting, Fiscal Management and Revenue Forecasting" for national, regional and local budget and finance officers from around the world, at Georgia State University in August 2001.
taught the JMBA economics course in Cairo, Egypt in June and July of 2001, as part of a joint program between the Robinson College of Business, GSU and the University of Cairo.
has been invited to present "CVM vs. Economic Impact: Complements or Substitutes," the "Presidential Address," at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2002.
has been invited to present "Sexual Preference and the Demand for the Arts: Does It Really Matter?" (with Gregory B. Lewis) at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2002.
has been invited to present "Valuation of Cultural Assets: Methodological
Issues," at the University of Canberra, Australia, in March 2002.
presented "U.S. Perspective on Career Issues in the Life Sciences" at the Wellcome Trust's "Radical Thinking, Creative Solutions, Career Issues in UK" Academic Research Conference, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 3-4, 2001.
presented "Discussion of Papers by Llerena et al., 'The Evolution of the French Innovation Policies and the Impact of Universities,' and Pammolli et al., 'A Comparison of U.S. And European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences'" at the NPRNet workshop, Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris, France, May 3-4, 2001.
presented "Bioinformatics: Human Resources Bottlenecks and Opportunities" at the International Symposium on Advances in Bioinformatics and Genomics at the National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India, January 15-17, 2001.
was appointed as a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, March 2001.
presented "An Analysis of Single Mothers' Employment, Welfare and Child Care Choices" at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, February 2001.
presented "Land Development Under the Threat of Taking," and "Development Holidays," as part of a seminar series at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland, October 31-November 1, 2001. He also presented "Some Implications of Recent Property Rights and Title Systems Research for FDI," to Catella Property Consultants, Ltd., in Helsinki, Finland, October 30, 2001.
traveled to Bulgaria to organize two national surveys. The first was a consumer survey of expected inflation, beliefs and perceptions about monetary policy and economic reform, and the second was a survey of all firms with foreign participation on the attractiveness of Bulgaria as an FDI destination and the costs of doing business in the country. In preparation for the project, he visited a number of government and research institutions in the country.
wrote a section on Fiscal Policy and the Macroeconomy for the "Virtual Seminar on Strengthening Fiscal Policy Analysis in Palestine."
worked on issues of Foreign Direct Investment with Serghei Buruian, a visitor to the International Studies Program from Moldova.
conducted an independent studies class for two visitors to the Economics Department from Belgium, Marc Valnost and Nara Mankam. One of the visitors has since applied to the Ph.D. program at the Andrew Young School.
participated as an instructor in the Fiscal Policy Training Programs held by the International Studies Program during Summer 2001.
see Roy Bahl.
has been the host for visiting scholar, Mr. Kwon, from the Republic of Korea.
worked in the development of a collaborative program with the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, L'viv Branch.
worked with Carol Hanson in development of a collaborative effort with the new MPA program at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.
presented "Overview of Action Learning" to a cross-disciplinary master’s symposium at the University of Oradea, city of Oradea in Transylvania, Romania, September 28, 2001.
participated as invited guest of Teodor Maghiar, Rector, and Ioan Horga, Director of International Relations at the opening ceremonies of the University of Oradea’s 2001-2002 academic year. The head of state of Romania, President Iliescu, was keynote speaker. Guests shared a reception and dinner with Iliescu, in his honor.
engaged in discussion of international initiatives that might be jointly undertaken by the University of Oradea and Georgia State University.
won approval for a study abroad project involving short exchange visits between masters’ students studying in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Human Resource Development masters program and Romanian students studying regional issues, economics, and computer science. The six students will conduct a joint action learning project on behalf of a Romanian business client.
secured Memorandum of Agreement for future, broad-based faculty-student exchanges and other academic and research collaborations between the University of Oradea and Georgia State University.
was appointed honorary Associate Professor of Human Resources at the University of Oradea, and also awarded honorary membership in that university Senate.
has been invited to present a paper on cultural influences in regionalism, at the forthcoming eighth conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Aberystwyth, Wales.
has been invited to serve as visiting professor to evaluate HRD academic
programming at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia and to teach over
a three-week period in Fall 2002.
see the International Studies Program.
presented "Envy-Free Configurations in the Market Economy" at the 2001 Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 1-3, 2001.
served as member of the Scientific Committee for the International Conference on the Analysis and Measurement of Freedom: Theoretical, Empirical, and Institutional Perspectives, held in Palermo, Italy, September 27-29, 2001.
1. Names of visitors are highlighted in the two 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.
