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High-Level Regional Consultative Meeting on Financing for Development Asia and Pacific Region

Jakarta, 2-5 August 2000


Annex II

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 :
  • 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

SESSION II

Financing for development: External private flows

(substantively serviced by the Asian Development Bank)

Moderator :
  • Anwar Nasution, Senior Deputy Governor, Bank Indonesia
Panelists :
  • 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
Interactive Dialogue among participants and panelists

SESSION III

Recent developments in the reform of international financial architecture: Regional implications

(substantively serviced by UNCTAD)

Moderator :
  • Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Panelists :
  • Yilmaz Akyuz, Officer-in-Charge, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
  • Ariel Buira, Mexican Ambassador to Greece, Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Mexico
  • Azizali Mohammed, Group of 24, Washington, D.C.

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 :
  • Heiner Flassbeck, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Germany
  • Jan Kregel, High Level Expert in International Finance, UNCTAD
  • MasaruYoshitomi, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan

SESSION V

Financing for development: Innovative sources of financing

(substantively serviced by ESCAP)

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

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 :
  • 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

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