STATEMENTS

Opening Ceremony

H. E. Mr. José A. Ocampo - UN Under-Secretary-General of DESA.

H. E. Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam - Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United nations and Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, on behalf of H. E. Ali Hachani - President of ECOSOC for 2006

Mr. Thandika Mkandawire - Director, UNRISD

Prof. Prabhat Patnaik - Professor of Economics CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

 Prof. Diane Elson - Senior Scholar and Co-Director of Program on Gender Equality and the Economy, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; (Power Point Presentation)

Panel 1: “ Macroeconomic policy and employment generation “

  H.E. Mr. Dalius Cekuolis - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations.

  Prof. Michael Piore - Professor of Economics, MIT;

  Prof. Gerald Epstein - Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts; (Power Point Presentation)

  Prof. Diane Elson - Senior Scholar and Co-Director of Program on Gender Equality and the Economy, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Panel 2: “ The effects of structural reform on employment “ 

  H.E Mr. Gunter Pleuger - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations  

  Mr. Rolph Van Der Hoeven -  Manager of the Technical Secretariat of World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, ILO; (Power Point Presentation)

  Prof. Prabhat Patnaik - Professor of Economics CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

  Prof. Robert Boyer - Economist CEPREMAP

Panel 3: “ Labour market flexibility and decent work “

  H.E. Mr. Aminu Bashir Wali - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations

  Prof. Robert Boyer - Economist CEPREMAP; (Power Point Presentation)

  Ms. Carmen Pages - Senior Labor Market Economist, HDNSP, The World Bank; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Gerry Rodgers - Director, the International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Haroon Bhorat - Director, the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), School of Economics, University of Cape Town

Panel 4: "Formalizing the informal sector ?"

  H.E. Mr. Léo Mérorès - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations , Vice-President of ECOSOC

 Dr. Martha Chen - Coordinator of  WIEGO, John F. Kennedy School; (Power Point Presentation)

  Dr. Victor Tokman - Former Economic Advisor to the President of Chile and Former Regional Director of the ILO for the Americas; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Gerry Rodgers - Director, the International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO

Panel 5: “ Social protection options “

  Ms. Judith Bahemuka - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations (Former Professor of Sociology, University of Kenya)

  Dr. Huck-Ju Kwon - Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Public Administration, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Michael Cichon - Director of Social Security Department, ILO; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Thandika Mkandawire - Director, UNRISD

Panel 6: “ Generating employment “

  Mr. Munir Akram - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

  Prof. Azizur Khan - Visiting Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

  Mr. Anis Ahmad Dani - Social Policy Adviser, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD) Network, World Bank; (Power Point Presentation)

  Mr. Janvier Désiré Nkurunziza - Economic and Social Policy Division, ECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; (Power Point Presentation)

  Prof.  Prabhat Patnaik - Professor of Economics, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Closing Ceremony

  H.E. Mrs. María Ángela Holguín - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations

 H. E. Mr. José A. Ocampo - UN Under-Secretary-General of DESA.

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