The Archive page lists notices for past meetings, together with the presentation and supporting papers when these have been provided to us by the speaker. They are listed in order of the dates on which the meetings were held. If you do not know the date of the meeting in which you are interested, and since the list is by now rather long, it is suggested that you search by name of speaker or by subject.
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Prof Christine Whitehead “The UK Housing Market: will it ever be the same again?” PowerPoint presentation
George Magnus “Whither Europe?” presentation
John Christensen “Tax havens: how to tackle these “Treasure Islands”?” presentation
Glenn Athey “England’s Regional Development Agencies-from abolition to lessons learnt for the future” PowerPoint presentation
Members celebrated the silver jubilee of ICEA at a party in the Art Workers’ Guild. Pictures from party in the Art Workers’ Guild
James Morton “How to Govern Darfur?” presentation
Sue Holloway “The charity and its Work” presentation
Mark Lowcock “Changing lives, delivering results: the government’s international development priorities” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Peter Collecott “Brazil: has the future finally arrived?” PowerPoint presentation
Costas Mitropoulos “The Eurozone and Greek Sovereign debt crisis” PowerPoint presentation
Gregory Smith “Planning and budgeting in Southern Sudan” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Eamonn Molloy “Optimism bias in major infrastructure projects” PowerPoint presentation
Jim Steer “The case for high speed rail in the UK” PowerPoint presentation
Anna Coote “21 hours: the case for a much shorter working week” PowerPoint presentation
Anke Hoeffler “Causes and consequences of Civil War” PowerPoint presentation
Phil Vernon “How to improve the effectiveness of development aid” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Drew “European rail policy” PowerPoint presentation
Jamie Simpson/Ted Laing “Ports” PowerPoint presentation
John Kay “The industry of finance” PowerPoint presentation
David Stubbs “The privatisation of Royal Mail” PowerPoint presentation
Carol Wills “Fair trade: development initiative, market standard or political movement? Whatever you think does it make sense economically?” PowerPoint presentation
Christopher Gilbert “Excessive speculation” PowerPoint presentation
Peter Fowler “Economic and political development and prospects in Bangladesh” Presentation notes
Roger Allport “Improving decision-maing for major urban rail projects” PowerPoint presentation
Sophie Tremolet “Private money for public water: a safe haven in the midst of a financial ftorm?” PowerPoint presentation
Andrew Oswald “Happiness and economic policy” PowerPoint presentation
George Magnus “Out of the fire of financial crisis into the frying pan of demographic change: how on earth will we cope?” Presentation notes
David Parish “Power sector reform in Asia (second edition)” PowerPoint presentation
David Parish “Power sector reeform in Asia: is it working?” PowerPoint presentation
Peter Darley/Jeremy Berkoff “The Dead Sea: should it be saved?” PowerPoint presentation
Robin Pratt “Spectrum allocation: challenges for a world connected without wires” Presentation notes
Nick Bates/Hilary Sunman “Trading for peace: achieving security and poverty reduction through trade in natural resources in the Great Lakes area” PowerPoint presentation
Sir Christopher Foster “Improving the governing of Britain” Presentation notes
David Quarmby “Transport for London: the last ten years and looking forward” PowerPoint presentation
Daniel Large “Is China taking over Africa?” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Christopher Stevens “Biofuels and development: will the EU help or hinder?” PowerPoint presentation
Malcolm Green “Reform and governance in Palestine political and economic issues facing Israel and Palestine in 2008″ PowerPoint presentation
Malcolm Green “Notes from the meeting” Presentation notes
James Morton “The research/practice interface a practitioner’s view” PowerPoint presentation
Dimitri Zenghalis “The Stern review: economics of climate change: value judgments, welfare weights and discounting” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Berkoff “Meeting report on opium” Presentation notes
Jeremy Berkoff “The economics of opium: implications for drugs reform” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Berkoff “The opium economy: a possible approach to reform, (draft paper), June 2007″ Presentation notes
Dr Celia Szusterman “The changing economic and political relationship between Latin America and China” PowerPoint presentation
Judith Plummer “Can India solve its power criris?” Presentation notes
Bojan Markovic “The impact of Chinese macro-economic policy on European economic prospects: should Europe be wary about China’s peg to the dollar” PowerPoint presentation
Garth Armstrong “The Western Balkans; economic progress and problems” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Pakistan, challenges in political economic development” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Pakistan talk” Presentation notes
Elaine Trimble “Planning an environmental city in China: the Dongtan Masterplan” Presentation notes
Nigel Harris “Is there a future for immigration?” Presentation notes
Martin Wolf “Globalization and his recent book: why globalization works” PowerPoint presentation
Martin Wolf “Why globalization works” Presentation notes
Chris Smith “The new approach to the appraisal of transport projects” Presentation notes
Susan Kramer “Access to micro-finance in the developing world: a Liberal Democrat perspective” Presentation notes
Professor John Appleby “Will patient choice improve the NHS?” Meetin notice
Stuart Reynolds “A new era of global steel: the end of state control and protectionism” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Donor-funded technical assistance, lessons from the front line” PowerPoint presentation
Philip Kelly “Donor-funded technical assistance, lessons from the front line” PowerPoint presentation
Fadi Hakura “The Turkish economy and its prospects: preparing for the EU” PowerPoint presentation
Martin Adams “Land reform and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa” Presentation notes
Elizabeth Daley “Land reform and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa” Presentation notes
Ian Alexander “Providing incentives for regulated infrastructure companies to deliver investment” PowerPoint presentation
Paul Reynolds “The Chinese economy: soft landing? Hard landing? Or worse?” PowerPoint presentation
Graham Todd “Tourism: where is the largest industry in the world heading?” PowerPoint presentation
Graham Todd “Tourism summary” Presentation notes
Clive Daniels/Chris Castles/James McLeod “Role of the Consulting Economists: past, present and future” Presentation notes
Clive Daniels/Chris Castles/James McLeod “Consulting Economists” PowerPoint presentation
Sheila Page “Agriculture in the WTO: negotiations, disputes and vested interests” Presentation notes
Sheila Page “Doha development agenda” Presentation notes
Simon Smith “The strategies and effects of low-cost airlines” PowerPoint presentation
Anthony White “Carbon trading: how does the EU scheme function and how important is it?” PowerPoint presentation
Richard Dowden “What can turn Africa round?” Meeting notice
Kevin Magner/Robin Pratt “Public private partnerships: does location matter?” PowerPoint presentation
Lord Megnad Desai “Development economics in an age of globalisation: has the subject change? Is it helpful?” Meeting notice
Andrew Rogerson “The foreign aid system: where is it heading?” PowerPoint presentation
Sir Christopher Foster “Transport on reform of the UK railways” PowerPoint presentation
Roger Watkins “The Cranfield Trust: working as a volunteer for small and medium-sized charities” Meeting notice
Mike Williams “Debt management in the UK and overseas” PowerPoint presentation
Robert Foster “Why has the UK set up independent competition authorities?” PowerPoint presentation
Paul Reynolds “Iraq: The legacy of the coalition” Meeting notice
Jonathan Ridley “DFID’s Economic Resource Centre” Presentation notes
Jim Winpenny “Who will pay for the world’s water?” Presentation notes
Mary Ameson “Social impact assessment does it complicate or complement the work of economists?” PowerPoint presentation
Charles Yates “The national air traffic services: a model public private partnership?” Presentation notes
Amanda Perry-Kessaris “Finding and facing facts about legal systems and FDI” PowerPoint presentation
Chris Castles “Eurotunnel: success or failure” PowerPoint presentation
Chris Castles “Eurotunnel: success or failure” Presentation notes
Katinka Barysch “EU enlargement and the Euro-Eastern Europe links to the UK debate” Meeting notice
Nigel Harris “The return of cosmopolitan capital” Meeting notice
Creon Butler “The future focus of the Bretton Woods Institutions: key issues in the debate” Presentation notes
Mark Watson “Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. An overview and reiew of opportunities for Economic Consultants” Presentation notes
Mark Watson “Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. An overview and reiew of opportunities for Economic Consultants” Presentation notes
Tony Murray/James Morton/Jeremy Drew “The market for independent Economic Consultants” Presentation notes
Jonathan Ridley “Challenge funds: effective development tools?” Presentation notes
Jeremy Berkoff “Economic and financial evaluation: why is it so often unsatisfactory? And does it matter?” Presentation notes
Roger Allport “Economic/financial evaluation: why so often unsatisfactory? Urban rail” PowerPoint presentation
Felix Dodds “Towards earth Summit 2002″ PowerPoint presentation
Nick Howard “The emerging Africa instrastructure fund” PowerPoint presentation
Richard North “Globalisation and the poor” Presentation notes
Richard North “Davos in NY” Presentation notes
Andrew Loewenthal “Private sector participation: where next?” PowerPoint presentation
Sheila Page “Developing countries and the developing agenda (Notes)” Presentation notes
Cliff Stevenson “Trade implications of China’s accession to the WTO” PowerPoint presentation