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Globalization and Catching-up

in Emerging Market Economies

 

 

 

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Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management

(WSPiZ)

 

Warsaw, 16-17 May, 2002

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 16th

9:00 – 11:30

Session I: Globalization, Transformation and Growth

 

Opening address:

Professor Andrzej K. KoĽmiński, Rector of the Leon KoĽmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (WSPiZ)

 

Address by Mr. Tomasz Sielicki, President of ComputerLand SA.

 

Papers:

Professor Grzegorz W. Kołodko, Director of  TIGER, WSPiZ, Warsaw, Poland, and John C. Evans Scholar in Polish and European Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Globalization and Catching-up in Emerging Market Economies

 

Professor Laszlo Csaba, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Transformation and Development

 

Professor D. Mario Nuti, University di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor at London Business School, London, England

Governing Incomplete Globalization

 

Discussants:

Professor Gang Fan, Director of the National Institute of Economic Research, China Reform Foundation, Beijing, China

George Vojta, President, Financial Services Forum, New York, USA

 

 

11:30 – 12:00

Coffee break

 

12:00 – 14:00

 

Session II:

 

 

WSPiZ  &  T I G E R  Distinguished Lecture

 

Professor Douglass C. North

Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo, USA, and the Nobel Laureate in Economics 1993

 

 

Understanding  Economic  Change  and  Economic  Growth

 

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch break

 

 

15:00 – 17:30

Session III: Economic Growth in the More and the Less Globalized Economies

 

Papers:

Professor Nguyuru H. I. Lipumba, Senior Research Fellow, The Multi-Environmental Society (MESO), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Globalization and Economic Development: Can Sub-Saharan Africa Avoid Marginalization?

 

Dr. Keith Crane, The RAND Corporation, USA, and Zbyszko Tabernacki, Dri-Wefa Inc.,  Washington, DC, USA

Globalization and Growth in the CIS

 

Professor Rodrigo Vergara, Centro de Estudios Publicos (CEP) and Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Reform, Growth and Slowdown: Lessons from Chile

 

Discussants:

Professor Gur Ofer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Masahiro Taguchi, Okayama University, Japan

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 17th

 

10:00 – 11:30

Session IV:

 

Special address by Dr. Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

 

Poland and the Contemporary World

 

 

11:30 – 11:45

Coffee break

 

 

11:45 – 14:00

Session V: One World, Different Paths of Development

 

Papers:

Professor Gang Fan, Director of the National Institute of Economic Research, China Reform Foundation, Beijing, China

The Dual-Transformation of China: Past 20 Years and 50 Years Ahead

 

Dr. Daniel Daianu, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, and Visiting Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Is Catching-up Possible in Europe?

 

Professor Tadeusz Kowalik, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and WSPiZ, Warsaw, Poland

Systemic Diversity in Time of Globalization and Integration

 

Discussants:

Professor Laszlo Csaba, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Professor Rodrigo Vergara, Centro de Estudios Publicos (CEP) and Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

 

 

14:00 – 14:45

Lunch break

 

 

14:45 – 17:15

Session VI: Catching-up and External Factors of Development  

 

Papers:

Dr. Masahiro Taguchi, Okayama University, Japan

Japanese Approach to the Transition Economies

 

Professor Gur Ofer and Professor Michael Karen, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Globalization and FDI in Financial Services to Economies in Transition

 

George Vojta, President, Financial Services Forum, New York, USA

Implementing Global Best Practice Standards: The Fiduciary Role of the Private Sector

 

Discussants:

Professor Nguyuru H. I. Lipumba, Senior Research Fellow, The Multi-Environmental Society (MESO), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Professor D. Mario Nuti, University di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor at London Business School, London, England

 

Concluding remarks:

Professor Grzegorz W. Kołodko, Director of  TIGER

 

Note

The whole set of conference papers – both in English and Polish, in printed as well as CD-ROM version – will be provided, on the request, during the conference.