DEVELOPMENT: PROGRAMME
Programme of the High Level Symposium on Trade and Development
World Trade Organization, Geneva, Wednesday, 17 March 1999
Wednesday, 17 March 1999
| 9:30 | Introduction and opening session |
| Chair: Mr. Renato Ruggiero, Director-General, World Trade Organization | |
| Opening Statement by Mr. Ruggiero | |
| Address by Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, UNCTAD | |
| Keynote addresses | |
| 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 | |
| 11:30 | Discussion with participants |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 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. |
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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 |
| 18:00 | Close |
Thursday, 18 March 1999
| 9:00 | Panel 2: Trade and Development prospects of Developing Countries |
| Moderator: Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, UNCTAD, | |
| Main speaker | |
| Mr. Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Director-General, UNIDO | |
| 9:30 | Discussants |
| 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 |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Panel 3: Further integration of Developing Countries, including Least-Developed Countries (LDCs), in the multilateral Trading System |
| Moderator: Ambassador Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, Geneva | |
| Main speaker | |
| Hon. Mr.
Alec Erwin, Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa |
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| 14:30 | Discussants |
| 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 |
| 17:30 | Closing Remarks by Renato Ruggiero |
* To be confirmed