Inter-American Development Bank
Integration and Regional Programs Department

THE EMERGENCE OF CHINA:
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

October 1st, 2004

Andres Bello Auditorium
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Avenue N.W, Washington D.C.

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Friday October 1, 2004
8:30 - 8:45 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 opening remarks
    Enrique V. Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank
David de Ferranti, Vice-President, World Bank
Liqun Jin, Vice-President, Asian Development Bank
9:00 - 10:15 session I.
  presentation of the idb task force report on china and latin america
  Moderator: Nohra Rey de Marulanda, Manager, Integration and Regional Programs Department, IDB
  Presentation (coordinators)
  Robert Devlin, Deputy Manager, Integration and Regional Programs Department, IDB
Antoni Estevadeordal, Principal Economist, Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division, Integration and Regional Programs Department, IDB
Andrés Rodríguez, Consultant, Research Department, IDB
  Discussants
    Liqun Jin, Vice-President, Asian Development Bank
José Luis Machinea, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
10:15 - 11:45 session II
  global and regional implications of china’s insertion into the world economy
    Moderator: Guillermo Calvo, Chief Economist and Manager, Research Department, IDB
  Panelists
    Osvaldo Rosales, Director General of International Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile
Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Homi Kharas, Chief Economist and Sector Director, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
Shahid Javed Burki, President and CEO, EMP Financial Advisors
Edmundo Fujita, Director General, Department of Asia and Oceania, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30 session IIi
  china and latin america together in the world economy
    Moderator: Enrique V. Iglesias, President, IDB
  Panelists
    Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor, The People’s Bank of China
Luis Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Horst Grebe, Minister of Economic Development, Bolivia
Martín Redrado, President, Central Bank and Former Secretary of Trade and International Economic Relations, Argentina
13:30 - 15:00 lunch (By Invitation Only)
    Keynote Speaker: Yang Jiechi, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in the United States
 
RSVP: María de la Paz Covarrubias, mariapazr@iadb.org or Phone 202 623-3293