| Day 1 | 29 July 1999 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Opening: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4 | |
| Opening Remarks | H.E. Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary General |
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| Welcome | Mark Malloch Brown
Administrator, UNDP |
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Keynote Speech:
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Amartya Sen
Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK |
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| 11:15 – 13:00 | Opening Plenary: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
Human Development Report 1999: Globalization with a Human Face |
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| Chair: | Zéphirin Diabré
Associate Administrator, UNDP |
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| Presenter:
1999 Report: Globalization with a Human Face |
Richard Jolly and the Human Development Report Team, UNDP | |
| Panel Discussion:
Role of Development Cooperation |
H.E. Diane Marleau Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie, Canada |
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| Social Policies in Globalization | H.E. Mervat Tallawy Minister of Social Affairs, Egypt |
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| Inclusion and Exclusion in GlobalGovernance | Kwesi Botchwey
Harvard University, US and former Minister of Finance, Ghana |
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| Managing Globalization with Equity | Dariusz Rosati
Council of the Central Bank and Warsaw Schoolof Economics, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland |
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| 13:00 – 13:30 | Launch and Demonstration: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
Human Development Report CD-ROM: Ten Years of People-Centred Development, 1990-99 |
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Sarah Burd-Sharps
Haishan Fu
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 1. Globalization: New Technologies and the Global Race for Knowledge UN Secretariat Conference Room 9 |
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| Chair: | Fawaz Fokeladeh
Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP |
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| Presenter:
New Technologies and the Global Race for Knowledge in HDR99 |
Kate Raworth
Human Development Report Office, UNDP |
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| Discussants: | Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara
UNRISD, Switzerland |
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| Hans d’Orville
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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| 15:00 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 2. Globalization and Competitiveness in the World Economy: Implications for and Policy Responses from Africa UN Secretariat Conference Room 4 |
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| Chair: | Thelma Awori
Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Globalization and Africa’s Future: Policy Issues for Managing the Development Process |
Toga McIntosh
Former Economic Advisor to the President, Liberia |
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| Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization for Africa | Nguyuru Lipumba
Tanzania |
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| Globalization and Competitiveness of African Economies | Ahmed Rhazaoui
UNDP Cameroon |
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| Discussants: | H.E. The Honourable Albert Tévoedjre
Minister of Planning and Employment, Benin |
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| Kwesi Botchwey
Harvard University, US |
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| Presenters:
Human Development Reports: Reflections on Impact and Inputs from an African Perspective |
Mbaya Kankwenda
UNDP Burkina Faso |
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| Globalization, Human Development and Implications for Capacity Development in Africa | Carlos Lopes UNDP Zimbabwe |
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| Discussants: | Viviene Taylor
Gender Commission of South Africa and Team Leader, South Africa NHDR 1998 and 1999 |
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| Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP |
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| 16:30 – 18:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 3. Globalization: The Invisible Heart – Care and the Global Economy UN Secretariat Conference Room 9 |
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| Chair: | Lincoln Chen
Rockefeller Foundation |
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| Presenters:
Care and the Global Economy in HDR99 |
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Human Development Report Office, UNDP |
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| Women's Capabilities and Social Justice | Martha Nussbaum
University of Chicago, US |
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| Care in Transition Countries | Ewa Rumniska-Zimny
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland |
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| Discussant: | Diane Elson
Manchester University, UK and UNIFEM |
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| 16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 4. Global Public Goods and Human Development: Regional and Global Perspectives Labouisse Hall, UNICEF House (44th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues) | |
| Chair: | Eimi Watanabe
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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| Opening Comment: | Inge Kaul
Office of Development Studies, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
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Anton Kruiderink Regional Bureau for Eastern Europe and the CIS Countries, UNDP |
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| Fawaz Fokeladeh
Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP |
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| Elena Martinez Regional Bureau for Latin American and the Caribbean, UNDP |
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| Nay Htun
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP |
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| Ahmed Rhazaoui
UNDP Cameroon |
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| Discussants: | Peter Matlon
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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| Georges Chapelier
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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| 18:30 | Evening Reception
Labouisse Hall, UNICEF House, (44th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues) |
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| Hosted by: | Richard Jolly and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | |
| Speakers: | H.E.Oscar Arias, Former President, Costa Rica
Inge Kaul, Director, Office of Development Studies, UNDP |
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| Day 2 | 30 July 1999 | |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Plenary Session: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
National/Regional Strategies for Human Development |
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| Keynote Speech:
Democracy is Human Development |
H.E. Fidel Ramos
Former President, Philippines |
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| Chair: | Normand Lauzon
Bureau for Resources and External Affairs, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Strategies for Success in Human Development |
Frances Stewart
Oxford University, UK /td> | |
| Gustav Ranis
Yale University, US |
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| Human Development Strategies in South Asia: Focus on Education and Gender | Khadija Haq
Human Development Centre, Pakistan |
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| Local Government Policy and Programmes | Carlos Flores Alcocer
Human Development Centre in Guanajuato, Mexico |
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| 11:15 – 13:00 | Plenary Session: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
Measurement of Human Development |
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| Chair: | Gustav Ranis
Yale University, US |
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| Presenters:
Evolution of the Human Development Index |
Selim Jahan
Human Development Report Office, UNDP |
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| Income Component of the HDI | Amartya Sen
Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK |
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| Sudhir Anand
Oxford University, UK |
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| Is Income Welfare? | Michael Ward
The World Bank, US |
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| Discussants: | Stephan Klasen
University of Munich, Germany |
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| Shiu-Kee Chu
UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Paris |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 1. Composite Measurements of Human Development UN Secretariat Conference Room 9 |
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| Chair: | Andrea Cornea
UNU/WIDER, Finland |
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| Presenters:
What does disaggregation of the HDI reveal? |
A. Halis Akder
Middle East Technical University, Turkey |
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| New Methodologies for Calculating the HDI | Teresa G. del Valle Irala
University of Bilbao, Spain |
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| Gender Equality Index | Saskia Wieringa Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands |
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| Discussant: | Farhad Noorbakhsh
University of Glasgow, UK |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 2. National Human Development Reports: Impacts on Development Policy and Resource Priorities UN Secretariat Conference Room 4 | |
| Chair: | Anton Kruiderink
Regional Bureau for Eastern Europe and the CIS Countries, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Impacting Policymaking at the Highest Levels – Kyrgyzstan NHDR |
H.E. The Honourable Ishenbay Abdurazakov
State Secretary, Kyrgyzstan |
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| Developing Policy Alternatives at the State Level | R. Gopalakrishnan
Secretary to the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India |
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| Colombia NHDR | Alfredo Sarmiento
Director, Social Mission, Colombia |
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| Human Development and Social Integration--Latvia NHDR | Nils Muizhnieks
Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies, Latvia |
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| Chile NHDR | Eugenio Ortega
Coordinator, Chile NHDR Team |
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| Impacts on Development Policy and Resource Priorities | Vladimir Echenique
Moscow State University, Russia |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 3. Gender and Human Development Labouisse Hall, UNICEF House (44th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues) | |
| Chair: | Zahra Nuru
Resident Representative, UNDP Gambia |
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| Presenters:
A Feminist Perspective on the Asian Crisis |
Thanh-Dam Truong
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands |
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| Global Markets, Gender and the Davos Man | Lourdes Beneria
Cornell University, US |
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| Interplay Between Gender and other Inequalities | Saraswathi Menon
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP |
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| 16:30 – 18:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 1. National Human Development Reports: Innovations in Measuring Human Development UN Secretariat Conference Room 9 |
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| Chair: | Terry McKinley
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Disaggregated Measures – Brazil NHDR |
Roberto Martins
Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Brazil, and team |
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| Morocco NHDR | Chaouki Benazzou
Consultant for NHDR, UNDP Morocco |
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| Innovative Index on Human Security | Rodrigo Marquez
Chile |
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| Discussant:
Innovation in Measuring Human Development |
Jean-Christophe Dumont
Université Laval, Canada |
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| 16:30 – 18:00 | Parallel Sessions on Selected Issues: 2. Deprivation and Poverty – NHDR Policy Impacts UN Secretariat Conference Room 4 | |
| Chair: | Elena Martinez
Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Cambodia NHDR |
H.E. Ou Orhat
Ministry of Planning, Cambodia |
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| Egypt NHDR | H.E. Osman M. Osman
Ministry of Planning, Egypt |
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| People’s Aspirations in Human Development – Bolivia NHDR | Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez
NHDR Team Coordinator, Bolivia |
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| Influence of NHDR’s on Slovenia’s Development Strategies | Matjaz Hanzek
Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, Slovenia |
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| Day 3 | 31 July 1999 | |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Plenary Session: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
Globalization – Asian Crisis and Recovery |
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| Chair: | Nay Htun
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Global Governance for Financial Markets |
Stephany Griffith-Jones
University of Sussex, UK |
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| Social Impacts of the Asian Crisis: Policy Challenges and Lessons | Jong-Wha Lee
Harvard University, US and Korea University, Korea |
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| Responding to the Asian Crisis in Thailand | Sippanondha Ketudat
National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand |
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| Discussants:
Lessons from the Asian Crisis |
Takatoshi Kato
Waseda University and former Vice Minister of Finance, Japan |
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| Robert Wade
Brown University, US |
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| 11:15 – 13:00 | Plenary Session: UN Secretariat Conference Room 4
Looking Ahead: Defining Areas of Future Research in Human Development |
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| Chair: | Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Human Development Report Office, UNDP |
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| Presenters:
Areas of Future Research |
Paul Streeten
Professor Emeritus, Boston University, US |
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| Evolving Approaches to Rights-Based Technical Cooperation | Lee Swepston
ILO |
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| Engendering Macroeconomic Policy and Budgets for Sustainable Development | Diane Elson
Manchester University, UK and UNIFEM |
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| Nilufer Cagatay
Bureau for Development policy, UNDP |
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