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Hawaii 2001: ADB 34th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors
  9 to 11 May 2001, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, USA
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Regional Cooperation: The Way Forward
8 May 2001 (4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.)

(Organized by the Asian Development Bank)

Alongside the process of globalization the Asian region has seen the emergence of several regional cooperation arrangements. The Asian Development Bank has been actively involved in assisting some of these arrangements. Similar arrangements have also emerged in other regions of the world. These regional/subregional arrangements raise important questions in the context of globalization:

  • Is there a need for regional cooperation/ regional integration in the context of globalization?
  • What are the merits of such arrangements?
  • Are these win-win arrangements, or are there winners and losers in the distribution of their benefits?
  • What is the role of such arrangements in the context of stability and external shocks?
  • Why are some regional arrangements more successful than others?
  • What is the future of such arrangements?

A distinguished panel of speakers will discuss these questions and other key aspects of the regional approach to globalization in the seminar.

PROGRAM/SPEAKERS
Time SpeakerPresentation
4:00 - 4:20 Masaru Yoshitomi
(Moderator)Dean, ADB Institute		Opening Remarks and Introductions
4:20 - 4:40 Supachai Panitchapakdi
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand and Director General (Designate) World Trade Organization
4:40 - 5:00 Jagdish Bhagwati
Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics Council on Foreign Relations, New York and Professor of Economics and Politics, Columbia University
5:00 - 5:20 Robert Devlin
Deputy Manager, Integration and Regional Programs Department, Inter-American Development Bank
5:20 - 5:40 Yung Chul Park
Department of Economics, Korea University
5:40 - 6:20

Open Discussion

Masaru Yoshitomi (Discussant and Moderator)

6:20 - 6:30 Closing Remarks

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