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14 July 2000

Revised Provisional Programme

High-level Regional Consultative Meeting
on Financing for Development
Asia and the Pacific

Jakarta Conference Center, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2-5 August 2000



  • 2 August, 2000
    8:30 am - 9:30 am Registration
    9:30 am - 11:00 am Inaugural Session
    Speeches by:
    • Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of ESCAP
    • Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, UNCTAD
    • Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Econmic and Social Affairs, United Nations
    • Yoshihiro Iwasaki, Director, Programs Department (West), ADB
    • H.E. Mr Makarim Wibisono, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations and President of ECOSOC
    Inaugural Address by
    • H.E. Dr Alwi Shihab, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
    11:00 am - 1:30 pm SESSION I

    Financing for Development: Issues in domestic resources mobilization in the Asia-Pacific context
    (substantively serviced by ESCAP)

    Moderator:
    • Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
    Panelists :

    11:00 am -12:00 am
    • Azizul Islam, Director, Development Research and Policy Analysis Division, ESCAP
    • Pisit Leeahtam, Deputy Minister of Finance, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Jungho Yoo, Senior Fellow, Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Edward Chen, Chair Professor of Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
    12:00 am - 1:30 pm Interactive dialogue among participants and panelists
    1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lunch


    2 August, 2000
    3:00 pm - 5:30 pm SESSION II

    Financing for development: External private flows
    (substantively serviced by the Asian Development Bank)

    Moderator :
    • Anwar Nasution, Senior Deputy Governor, Bank Indonesia
    Panelists
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    • Yoshihiro Iwasaki, Director, Programs Department (West), ADB
    • Pradumna B. Rana, Manager, Regional Economic Monitoring Unit, ADB
    • Yun-Hwan Kim, Senior Economist, Economics and Development Resource Center, ADB
    4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Interactive Dialogue among participants and panelists


    3 August, 2000
    10:00 am -12.30 pm SESSION III

    Recent developments in the reform of international financial architecture:
    Regional implications
    (substantively serviced by UNCTAD)

    Moderator :
    • Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, UNCTAD
    Panelists:

    10:00 am - 10:45 am
    • Yilmaz Akyuz, Officer-in-Charge, Division on Globalisation and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
    • Ariel Buira, Mexican Ambassador to Greece, Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Mexico
    • Azizali Mohammed, Group of 24, Washington, D.C.
    10:45 am - 12:30 pm Interactive dialogue among participants and panelists
    12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch


    3 August, 2000
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm SESSION IV

    Regional cooperation and collaboration on money and finance: Contemporary experiences and lessons for future policy options for the Asia-Pacific region
    (substantively serviced by UNCTAD)

    Moderator :
    • Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, UNCTAD
    Panelists:

    2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    • Heiner Flassbeck, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Germany
    • Jan Kregel, Senior Advisor, Division of Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
    • Masaru Yoshitomi, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan
    3:15 pm -5:00 pm Interactive dialogue among participants and panelists


    4 August, 2000
    10:00 am - 12:30 pm SESSION V

    Financing for development: Innovative sources of financing
    (substantively serviced by ESCAP)

    Moderator :
    • Kim Hak-Su , Executive Secretary, ESCAP
    Panelists:

    10:00 am - 11:00 am

    • Janet Farooq, Chief, Development Policy Analysis Section, Development Research and Policy Analysis Division, ESCAP
    • Fazle H. Abed, Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee(BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Stephen Cheung, Professor of Finance, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • David Hew, Secretary General, Asia- Pacific Countertrade Association, Singapore
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm Interactive dialogue among participants and panelists
    12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch


    4 August, 2000
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm SESSION VI

    Financing for development: Regional issues and perspectives relating to the external sector including ODA, trade issues etc.
    (substantively serviced by ESCAP)

    Moderator :
    • H.E. Mr. Asda Jayanama, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations and Co-Chairman of the Bureau for the Preparatory Committee of the High-Level International Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development
    Panelists :

    2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    • Mari Pangestu, Member, Board of Directors, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia
    • A. R. Kemal, Director, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan
    • Kolone Vaai, Co-Managing Director, KV Consult Ltd, Apia, Samoa
    • Arjun Sengupta, Centre for Policy Research and Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
    3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

    		Interactive dialogue among participants and panelists


    5 August, 2000
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm CONSULTATIONS ON THE DRAFT OUTCOME
    5:00 pm - 6:00 pm CONCLUDING SESSION