Lectures, presentations & participation in meetings
(additional information on my OECD activities can be found in Development Centre Newsletters
no 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11)
 

On December 6, I participated in a panel on productivity in Portugal held at ISEG to mark the launch of a book on the same subject to which I had contributed with a revision of the paper presented at the May 24 conference of the Bank of Portugal. My presentation drawing on some new work on industrial productivity done at the OECD Development Centre by Daniel Cohen and Marcelo Soto. It is available here.

On December 2, I moderated a panel on Portugal´s convergence at the University of Aveiro which was part of the seminar of the "Congress on the Future of Europe"  launched at the Catholic University of Portugal, in Lisbon on October 18. There I presented some new data on Portuguese GDP per capita work by Angus Maddison available here. I also discussed some new work on industrial productivity by Daniel Cohen and Marcelo Soto.

On 25 November, I presented a paper GLOBALIZAÇÃO, DESENVOLVIMENTO E BEM COMUM at a panel: "Which future for Portugal?" at the Porto Commercial Association.

On November 21, I participated with Carlos Winograd, DELTA, Paris in the launch of Straining at the Anchor by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor at the American University of Paris. The presentation, co-authored with Martin Grandes, was titled Cambalache and beyond.

On November 5, I participated in the Forum on Ibero-American Investments held at Casa de América in Madrid, with the sponsorship of SECIB and CEPAL. The presentation on Latin American Risk: Perceptions and Realities is available here.

On October 24, I presented the paper titled Peer reviews as inputs into credible African surveillance at the experts'meeting on "Effective Strategies to realize NEPAD: The Role of Action Mapping and Peer  Review", organised by the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada and the OECD Development Centre, held in Paris at the time of the 40th anniversary of the Centre and the launch of the book Development is Back (DiB) formerly known as Development Redux.

On October 22, I presented a revision of the Accra paper titled Peer reviews as inputs into credible African surveillance at the 25th anniversary of CERDI international colloquium on "Refounding international co-operation: different vantage points on new initiatives, in particular the NEPAD", to be held in Clermont Ferrand, France on 22 october under the chairmanship of President Abdoulaye Wade. The paper is available here.

On 18 October, I presented a paper on European architecture at the inaugural seminar of the "Congress on the Future of Europe", dealing with Democracy and Governance and held at the Catholic University of Portugal, in Lisbon.

On 8 October, I presented a paper on Towards an African multilateral surveillance framework at a UNECA Ad-hoc expert group meeting on "Feasibility of Monetary Unions in African Regional Economic Communities", held in Accra, Ghana.

On 1 October, I presented the African Economic Outlook and the prospects for the Mozambique economy at the conference on public private partnerships in Maputo, Mozambique.

On 26-27 September, I  co-chaired with Gerard Montassier of the Foundation for European Civilization a seminar held at OECD on The internal and external development policy of the European Union: a strategy for an identity in the face of globalisation.

On 25 September, I made a presentation on public private partnerships at a conference on "Development in Portuguese", held at Portuguese Embassy in Luanda, Angola.

On September 24, I participated in the 12th Lisbon meetings of the Bank of Portugal 

On 12 September, I presented a paper at the conference on "Development Co-operation: challenge for emerging donors" held by CzechAid in Prague. The paper, drawing on Development Redux, is available here.

On 29-31 August, I attended the Fifth International  Conference Europe-Africa of the Aspen Institute France on « The contribution of the private sector in the implementation of NEPAD » in Annecy and introduced session I on The new African political environment overlying the NEPAD. I also distributed some copies of the African Economic Outlook, including one to the conference chairman Raymond Barre. The guest of honour was the President of Senegal who had been at the launch of this OECD publication on Africa. The text is available here.

On 10 July, I attended the Euro 50 Group conference in Brussels on "the financial and monetary responsibilities of the European Union towards its European neighbour countries" where I distributed  copies of my powerpoint presentation on Don't Fix don't floatat the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (on 24 November, 2001)

From 15 to 19 July, I attended the Summer Institute of the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), in Cambridge (Massachusetts).

On 10 July, I attended the On 3 July, I attended the CEPS dinner with the Danish Prime Minister to mark the beginning of the EU presidency in Brussels.

On 1-2 July , I attended the 10th international conference of the  Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan on Exchange Rate Regimes in the 21st Century. There  I moderated a panel on the euro and distributed copies of publication of the OECD Development Centre titled Don't Fix don't float.

On 27 June , I made a presentation on public private partnerships at the Entrepreneurial Forum of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). The powerpoint presentation  is available (in Portuguese) by clicking on the flag  and a report on the proceedings here.

On 26 June , I commented on Mariano Tommasi and G.K. Jomo's papers at the ABCDE Europe meeting in Oslo, Norway. The powerpoint presentation is available here.

On 22 June, I made a presentation about work of the OECD Development Centre on "unity and diversity", "development as hope" and  "public private partnerships" as part of the visit of Chiara Lubitch to Rimini, For the unity of peoples.

On 17 June, at a debate in Brussels organised by The Friends of Europe on "Can Europe be proud of its aid policies?",  I spoke about some of the topics in my contribution to Development Redux.

On 10 June, I made a presentation about the Portuguese economy to the Coastal European University meeting at the Ritz in Lisbon. I updated my Euro hold-up powerpoint presentation given in the same room on February 1, 2001!

On 6 June, I made a powerpoint presentation on Corporate Governance, National Development and Risk Management at the annual conference  of the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry (CEPE) in Cascais.

On 5 June at a meeting of the Fairer World Forum in Brussels on 'Finding Practical Solutions to the Globalisation Crisis" , I spoke mostly about public private partnerships and other OECD innovative work on Africa

On 1 June, I attended a strategy meeting of José de Mello SGPS in Sintra on "Strategic decision centres for companies in Portugal".

On 27-29 May, I attended the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Addis Ababa, where I chaired a panel on the role of the private sector in the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD. The report to the plenary session, chaired by the South African Minister of Finance featured among others the Canadian Development Minister, the NEPAD and UNECA Secretaries General. It  is available here, including {in curly brackets} an impromptu exchange with the chairman.

On 24 May,  I attended a Bank of Portugal conference on Portuguese Economic Development in the European Space: Determinants and Policies and presented a paper  titled Pitfalls in geographical and historical determinism.

On 20 May, I attended the International Forum on National Visions and Strategies, co-hosted by the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, OECD and World Bank in Seoul (Korea), on May 20-22, 2002, where I presented a paper on Development, peer pressure and democracy (subsequently made into a chapter of Development Redux).

On 17 May, I made a presentation on corporate governance and risk management  at a panel on  "Responding to Uncertainty: New Responsibilities and Challenges for Leadership"  at the 2002 Economic Forum of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance (this was subsequently made into the powerpoint presentation I made to the CEPE annual conference on June 6).

On 13 May, at the Forum OECD in Paris I chaired a panel on Towards Arab and Euro-Med Regional Integration (the title of a publication of the OECD Development Centre) attended by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, secretary-general of the International Organisation of French-Speaking Countries, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, head of the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), Kenizé Mourad and Leonardo Clerici .

On 9 May, I attended a seminar on "After the euro: a European federation of democratic states?", organized by the Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Lisbon, celebrating Europe's day and made a powerpoint presentation on "snowballing towards the European common good".

On 4 May, I attended a conference at the Catholic University of Portugal on the globalization of solidarity and served as rapporteur in a panel.

On 3 May,  I presented  Development Centre's Technical Paper 181 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto

On 25 April , I participated in the fifth Forum International de Réalités, about "The Maghreb and Europe: a Medium-term View" held in Tunis, Tunisia. The topic of my address was Towards Arab and Euro-Mediterranean economic integration, from the titleof a publication of the OECD Development Centre which I distributed.

On 19 April ,  I participated at a panel on the European enlargement at the Beja Polytechnic Institute where I drew on my paper Converging European Transitions which appeared as OECD Development Centre Technical Paper nº 159

On 18-19 April ,  I attended the 1046th conference at the Study and Conference Center in Bellagio on Transcending the Post-Seattle Angst with particular emphasis on the forthcoming Canadian G8 presidency initiative about the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).

On 15 April, I co-chaired a OECD/EBRD conference in London  on "Corporate Governance and National Development", which followed from a conference in Paris on 23-24 April 2001.

On 12 April , I chaired  a round table on Communication and Empire  at the Institute for Scientific Tropical Research, Lisbon where a paper on Democracy  and Development was presented by Colm Foy, drawing on joint work done for my powerpoint presentation at IRIS.

On 6-7 April, I attended the 2002 plenary meeting of The Trilateral Comission in Washington .

On 5 April, I attended a workshop at World Bank headquarters in Washington about "The Future of Research on Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets."

On 21-23 March ,  the World Customs Organization and the Government of Mozambique organised a meeting in Africa (WCO' first) dedicated to the topic of Integrity in Customs: The African Response. Among the 36 African members, 33 were represented together with the Bretton Woods institutions and major bilateral donors. I presented the closing address, Lessons for Development from Customs Reform, adapting a similar powerpoint presentation prepared for  Istanbul by including African examples. I drew the conclusion that private sector involvement was essential for the credibility of the reform. This helped modify the draft Maputo declaration to take into account the contribution of the private sector and other stakeholders in the reform effort. The declaration also mentions the the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) prominently and may help improve governance in Africa.

On 15 de March, I presented a closing address at the European Society for the History of Economic Thought meeting in Crete titled Comparative development and institutional change

On 13 March, I participated in a panel on INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at a meeting of IRIS in Paris  . The original powerpoint presentation  is available here

On 8 March, I attended the task force meeting of the Institute for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University in New York City and presented Centre work on corporate governance.

On 7 March, I attended a meeting on Democracy and Development organized by the EU presidency in Valladolid, Spain.

On 6 February the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Government of Turkey  sponsored a conference on corruption where I made a powerpoint presentation based on the comparison of customs reform in Bolivia, Pakistan and Philippines in OECD Development Centre in Technical Paper N° 175, April 2001: “Fighting Corruption in Customs Administration: What Can We Learn from Recent Experiences?” by Irene Hors and on subsequent work at PUMA

On 25 January, I was supposed to present Development Centre's Technical Paper 181 at an international conference on Institutional and Organisational Dynamics in the Post-Socialist Transformation, organised by the European Association of Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) in Amiens. Unfortunately I was unable to do so because I got stranded in the  beltway. I nevertheless attended the EACES board meeting.

On 16 January, at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, I spoke about the relationship between economics and sociology at one of a series of interdisciplinary meetings called "Different views on Prospects for the 21st Century." The paper is available (in Portuguese) by clicking on the flag 

On 15 January, I attended a meeting of the steering committee to assess the World Bank's Comprehensive Development Framework programme in Kampala, Uganda, having presented the previous day Development Centre's Technical Paper 181 at Makerere University's Economic Policy Research Centre. This also allowed me to refer to some of the Centre's recent publications on Africa.