High Level Symposium on Trade and Development
Wednesday, 17 March 1999

 

Programme and archives

 

9:30 INTRODUCTION AND OPENING SESSION
Chair: Mr. Renato Ruggiero, Director-General, World Trade Organization


Opening Statement by Mr. Ruggiero

Mr. Ali Said Mchumo,
Chairman, General Council


Address by Mr. Rubens Ricupero,

Secretary General, UNCTAD


KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Mr. F. Paolo Fulci,

President, ECOSOC
Mr. Shigemitsu Sugisaki,

Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Caio K. Koch-Weser,

Managing Director, Operations, The World Bank
Professor T. N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, Yale University, United States

11:30 DISCUSSION WITH PARTICIPANTS

14:30 PANEL 1: LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

Moderator: Mr. Paul Collier,
Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank

MAIN SPEAKER
Mr. C. Fred Bergsten,

Director, Institute of International Economics, Washington D.C.

15:00 DISCUSSANTS
Dr. Keith Bezanson,

Director, Institute of Development Studies and Senior Fellow of IISD, U.K.
Mar�a Livanos Cattaui,

Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France
Professor Wontak Hong,

University of Seoul, Republic of Korea
Professor Deepak Nayyar,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Mr. John Toye,

Director, Globalization and Development Strategies Division, UNCTAD

16:30 DISCUSSION WITH PARTICIPANTS


18:00 CLOSE