What was new in 2004?

Last updated 31 December, 2004
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On 22 December I participated in the meeting of the Euro50 group at the Austrian National Bank in Vienna

On 17 December I made a presentation based on the book Public Private Partnerships and Economic Integration in Southern Africa (item 319 in publication list) in the graduate course on African economy at ISEG

On 16 December I chaired a panel
in Porto on Portugal in the next 30 years, closing the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the April 25th Revolution

On 9 December I attended the seminar on EU-Mercosur the next steps at Sciences-Po in Paris

On 19 November I participated in the final panel of the conference of the Portuguese Tax Association and the Lisbon Law School on the 15 th anniversary of the 1989 Tax Reform in honor of my former teacher and president of the Tax Reform Commission, Paulo de Pitta e Cunha.

On 19 November I delivered a keynote address at the 22nd annual meeting of the Plastics Industry Association of Portugal (APIP) in Guimarães

On 17 November I made a presentation on the EU-Mercosul agreement at the Forum Brazil held by the the Luso-Brazilian Foundation

On 15 November I presented a book on Chiara Lubich and the Focolare movement at the Catholic University

On 10 November I participated in a Seminar on Fiscal Adjustment in Latin America organized by OECD´s Economics Department at Tour Europe.

On 4 November I made a presentation on Law and Economics in a Lusophone setting at a conference organized by the Nova Law School

On 27 October I made a presentation at the Culture and Science Club of the Nova University Law School on Globalization, Europe and Lusophony

On 23-25 October I participated in the meeting of the
International Board of Governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Ontario

On 22 October I participated in the Conférence Annuelle de la Commission Méditerranée organized by the Ligue Européenne de la Coopération Economique – LECE,  in Naples


On 19 October I made a presentation on The Atlantic partnership under Globalization at the CEO University in Barcelona

On 12 October I participated in a panel on the new trade agenda at the Euro-Latin American Forum in Lisbon

On 6-7 October  I attended the II Business Forumof CPLP in Cabo Verde

On 25 July I made a presentation at the IX Ministerial
of CPLP and attended the V Conference of Heads of State and Government of CPLP, in São Tomé e Príncipe

On 12-16 July
I participated in the NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, Mass

On 7 July
I intervened at XII International Annual Meeting in Political Studies: “Ideas of Europe and the Trans-Atlantic Relationship”, organized by Instituto de Estudos Políticos da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Cascais.

On 28-29 June
I gave the keynote address of the “I Lusophone Meeting on Competition”, organized by Portuguese and Brazilian Competition Authorities, Rio de Janeiro

On 11 June I presented the “III Memorial Conference José Duarte Monjardino”, Museu de Angra do Heroísmo
, Azores

On 24-25 June
I participated in "Euro 50Group Roundtable, Asia in the international monetary system", Beijing

On 16 June
I made a presentation at the XII Forum of Association of Post  and Telecommunication Operators from Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories de (AICEP) "Comunications and Development", Viseu


On 27 May I presented a paper on the Global Partnership for Development at the Lisbon Academy of Science and intervened on  Global Lusophony at a panel at the Lisbon Book Fair

On 26 May I moderated a panel on Portugal, Brazil and Africa at an international meeting on "Risk Capital - Venture Capital IT" in Lisbon

On 19 May I made a presentation on security, democracy and growth at a meeting on Middle East initiatives held at the Luso-American Foundation for EuroMesCo.

On 10-11 May I was a discussant at a panel on PRSP and presented my report to the OECD Secretary General at the ABCDE Europe meetings in Brussels

On 7-9 May I attended the plenary meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Warsaw

On 6 may I gave a key note address on Turkey and the European Union at the 3rd Forum Instanbul in istanbul

On 3-4 May I attended the Euro50 group meeting in Brussels

On 27April I moderated a panel on business associations at the I Forum Africa of Diario Economico.

On 22 April I presented the special issue of Estratégia on Cabo Verde, co-sponsored  by the OECDDevelopment Centre thanks to a grant from banco de Portugal at the Delors center.

On  21April I commented on the Global Development Finance 2004 report
of the World Bank at the Gulbenkian Foundation

On 14 April, I participated in a roundtable on strategies for Angola at the Gulbenkian Foundation. I distributed a paper on the possible contribution of the Tropical Research Institute on the topic  Financing for Development and spoke about future plans, especially the follow-up to the 2003 Luanda seminar convened by Africa Hoje magazine.

On 7 April, I participated in a seminar on budgetary rules hosted by the President of the Republic at the Belém Palace in Lisbon which followed Chatham House rules and was based on presentations by Manuel Pinho and Teodora Cardoso. Daring a pun with the description of the Stability Pact, one participant wondered whether the message should not be along Mariano Tommasi's interpretation of the Argentine convertibility law, It´s not the policy it´s the polity stupid.

On 11 March I spoke about the EU enlargement at the Catholic University´s Jobshop

On 9 March, I participated on a panel on the 2004 budget organized by the Porto School of Economics along with Teodora Cardoso and moderated by João Loureiro. I then moderated a workshop on economic governance at the University of Aveiro.

On 27 February, I presented a book on public choice at a seminar at IEP/UCP

On February 10, I made a presentation at the first convention of Portugal Commitment

On 5 February, 2004 I was sworn in as President of the Tropical Research Institute in Lisbon. My statement is available in the Ministry of Science website  with a typo on the year of establishment (1893 instead of 1883) which is corrected hereport
My first interview to Lusa is also available in the Ministry of Science website


On 30 January I gave the closing address to the 1st International Workshop of the IEMed in Barcelona on Europe and America: Regional Integration Strategies, titled Peer review and public private partnership: a "Eurocentric" perspective on globalisation
On 12 January I participated in a special meeting of the Euro50 group to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the devalaution of the CFA franc at the Caisse Nationale des Dépôts in Paris