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Emerging Asian Regionalism: Ten Years After the Crisis

The aim of this workshop is to review how Asian countries underwent two decades of dramatic change, from the rapid economic growth of the mid-1990s, to the large setbacks during the crisis, to the renewed sustained expansion of today a decade after the 1997-98 Asian financial countries with focus on Asian regionalism.

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The workshop will:

• review how countries were able to transform crisis into opportunities;
• analyze issues related to the financial, trade, and investment sectors; and
• discuss the future of Asia and perspectives for deepening regional cooperation and integration

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• Final draft of ADB Report on Emerging Asian Regionalism

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Participation is by invitation only

• About 50 international economic experts
• heads of Asian, North American and European think-tanks and
• ADB staff

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Session Presentors and discussants:

1. Prof. Peter Petri, Brandeis University;
2. Prof. Michael Plummer, Johns Hopkins University;
3. Prof. Jenny Corbett, Australian National University
4. Prof. Shinji Takagi, Osaka University;
5. Dr. Mario Lamberte, ADB Institute
6. Prof. Naoyuki Yoshino, Keio University;
7. Dr. Shiladitya Chatterjee, ADB;
8. Dr. Aniceto Orbeta, Philippine Institute for Development Studies;
9. Prof. Peter Drysdale, Australian National University
10. Dr. Ramesh Chandra, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations;
11. Dr. Giovanni Capannelli, ADB;
12. Prof. ZhongXiang Zhang, East-West Center, Hawaii
13. Dr. Philippa Dee, Australian National University.
14. Dr. Hugh Patrick, Columbia University
15. Prof. Hongzhong Liu, Fudan University;
16. Dr. Yuen Pau Woo, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
17. Dr. Chia Siow Yue, Singapore Institute of National Affairs
18. Prof. Motoshige Itoh, Tokyo University
19. Prof. Charles Adams, National University of Singapore
20. Dr. Josef Yap, Philippine Institute of Development Studies
21. Dr. Indu Bhushan, ADB
22. Dr. Douglas Brooks, ADBI
23. Dr. Raza Ahmad, ADB
24. Prof. Masahiro Kawai, ADBI
25. Dr. Jong-Wha Lee, ADB
26. Dr. Srinivasa Madhur, ADB
27. Dr. Alfred Steinherr, German Institute for Economic Research
28. Dr. Mohamed Ariff, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research
29. Liqing Zhang