Wednesday: March 1, 2000

Reception and Registration

Opening Ceremony
Germán Suárez (President BCRP)

Governance-Related Conditionalities of the IFI’s           
Devesh Kapur (Harvard) & Richard Webb

The Basle Committee’s Proposals for Revised Capital Standards: Rationale, Design and Possible Incidence
Andrew Cornford (UNCTAD)

IMF Quota Formulas and Mechanisms - A Developing Economy Perspective
Narendra Jadhav (India/IMF)

The New Thinking on Poverty and its Implications for Developing Countries
Jan Gunning (Amsterdam and Oxford)

Inequality and Poverty in the Era of Liberalization  and Globalization       
Giovanni Andrea Cornia (UNICEF Innocenti R.C.)
                                                                   
Patrick Asea (EPRC, Uganda)

Thursday: March 2, 2000

The Global Development Network:Aims and Governance
Lyn Squire (World Bank)

International Financial Liberalization and the Crisis of East Asian Development      
K.S. Jomo (U. of Malaya)
                

Strengthening the International Financial System: Some Lessons from the Peruvian Case   
Renzo Rossini (Head, Economic Research Central Reserve Bank of Peru)
                                        
Interests and Options of Developing and Least-Developed Countries in a New Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations           
T. Ademola Oyejide (U. of Ibadan)
                
Discussion of the Results of Harvard’s Trade Workshop              
Dani Rodrik (Harvard, G-24’s Research Coordinator)

Discussion of the Research Agenda for March-September 2000           
Dani Rodrik

Friday: March 3, 2000

The Standardization of Law and its Impact on Developing Economies      
Katharina Pistor (Harvard)
                
Reform of the International Financial Institutions          
Thomas A. Bernes (IMF E.D.)

Presentation 
Kiyoto Ido (Japan’s Embassy, USA)

Closing Words
Carlos Saito