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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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