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DEVELOPMENT: PROGRAMME
Programme of the High Level
Symposium on Trade and DevelopmentWorld Trade Organization, Geneva, Wednesday, 17 March 1999 |
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Wednesday, 17 March 1999
| 9:30 |
Introduction
and opening session |
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Chair:
Mr. Renato Ruggiero, Director-General, World Trade Organization |
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Opening
Statement by Mr. Ruggiero |
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Address
by Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, UNCTAD |
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Keynote addresses |
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Mr. F.
Paolo Fulci, President, ECOSOC
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Mr.
Shigemitsu Sugisaki, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund,
Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Caio
K. Koch-Weser, Managing Director, Operations, The World Bank
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Professor
T. N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department
of Economics, Yale University, United States |
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| 11:30 |
Discussion
with participants |
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| 13:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:30 |
Panel 1: Linkages between Trade and Development Policies |
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Moderator:
Mr. Paul Collier, Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank |
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Main
speaker |
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Mr. C.
Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute of International Economics, Washington D.C. |
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| 15:00 |
Discussants |
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Dr.
Keith Bezanson, Director, Institute of Development Studies and Senior Fellow of IISD, U.K.
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María
Livanos Cattaui, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France
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Professor
Wontak Hong, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Professor
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Mr. John
Toye, Director, Globalization and Development Strategies Division, UNCTAD
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| 16:30 |
Discussion
with participants |
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| 18:00 |
Close |
Thursday, 18
March 1999
| 9:00 |
Panel 2: Trade and Development prospects of Developing
Countries |
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Moderator:
Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, UNCTAD, |
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Main
speaker |
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Mr.
Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Director-General, UNIDO |
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| 9:30 |
Discussants |
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Professor
Marcelo de Paiva Abreu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Dr. Lal
Jayawardena, Deputy Chairman, National Development Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka*
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Professor
Ademola Oyejide, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
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Professor
John Whalley, University of Western Ontario, Canada
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| 10:30 |
Discussion
with participants |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
Panel 3: Further integration of Developing
Countries, including Least-Developed Countries (LDCs), in the multilateral Trading System |
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Moderator:
Ambassador Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, Geneva |
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Main
speaker |
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Hon. Mr.
Alec Erwin, Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa
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| 14:30 |
Discussants |
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Mr.
Denis Bélisle, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, Geneva
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Mr.
Robert Sharer, Chief, Trade Policy Division, IMF, Washington, D.C.
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Ms. Anna
Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Special Coordinator for Least-Developed, Land-Locked and Island
Developing Countries,
UNCTAD
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H.E. M.
Moussa Touré, President of Commission, West African Economic and Monetary Union,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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| 15:30 |
Discussion
with participants |
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| 17:30 |
Closing
Remarks by Renato Ruggiero |
* To be confirmed
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