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D蒝ELOPPEMENT:
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 |
|
| 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. |
|
| Mar韆 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 Magari駉s, 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 B閘isle,
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
Tour? 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