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
	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

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.
	María 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

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
	Dr. Lal Jayawardena, Deputy Chairman, National Development Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka^*
	Professor Ademola Oyejide, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
	Professor John Whalley, University of Western Ontario, Canada
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
14:30	Discussants

	Mr. Denis Bélisle, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, Geneva
	Mr. Robert Sharer, Chief, Trade Policy Division, IMF, Washington, D.C.
	Ms. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Special Coordinator for Least-Developed, Land-Locked and Island Developing Countries, UNCTAD
	H.E. M. Moussa Touré, President of Commission, West African Economic and Monetary Union, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
15:30	Discussion with participants

17:30	Closing Remarks by Renato Ruggiero

^* To be confirmed