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On May 15, I served as discussant of Graciela Kaminsky in the session on
capital flows of ABCDE Europe
and
moderated a workshop on the NEPAD Peer Review and Public Private Partnerships
for Development. The introduction to the workshop is available
here.
On 28 April, I participated in a panel on Latin America - What next?
at
the OECD Forum, in the Centre de Conférences Internationales in
Paris, with a presentation updating the one given at SECIB in Madrid in
November 2002, summarized here.
On 25 April I participated in the Forum of L´Économiste
Mahrébin in Tunis, dealing with the internationalization of
tunisian business and presented relevant OECD
publications, namely the African Economic Outlook and the Euromed book.
On 9 April, I participated in a panel on NEPAD with President Abdoulaye
Wade at Sciences-Po where I
presented him with a copy of the second edition of the African
Economic Outlook, published jointly with the African Development Bank.
On 8 April, I co-chaired with the Economy Minister a conference on Public
Private Partnerships for Development in post conflict situations the case
of the Democratic Republic of Congo, held in Kishasa. The press communique
(in French) is available here
On 4 April, I chaired on behalf of the Secretary General a presentation
of President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique at OECD headquarters in the
presence of Mr. Omar Kabbaj, President of the African Development Bank.
On 28 March, I visited the Bank of Estonia where I gave a seminar (based
on OECD Development Centre Webdoc nº 6, Fix
in order to float? Lessons from emerging markets for EU accession countries,
written
with Helmut Reisen and on Central Bank Intervention under Target Zones:
the Portuguese Escudo in the ERM, written with Luis C. Nunes and Luis
Brites Pereira) and met with the vice-governor Mr. Marten Ross and department
heads. I also met with Messrs. Peeter Reshtshinski and Eero Saue of the
External Economic Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and with Mr. Erik Terk, director of the Estonian Institute of Future Studies
and member of the Board of Bank of estonia and Ms. Tairir Rõõm,
Ph. D. candidate at Boston College and economist in Bank of Estonia.
On 21 March, I presented at paper on Fix
in order to float? Lessons from emerging markets for EU accession countries
(OECD Development Centre Webdoc nº 6, written with Helmut Reisen)
at a conference organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hugary
and the International Center for Economic Growth in Budapest and subsequently
met with the Ambassador of Portugal to Hungary and the delegate to the
Freign Trade and Investment Agency of Portugal (ICEP).
On 10 March, I presented a paper on Public Private Partnerships for Development
(written with José Braz and Francisco Mantero) at the International
Academy of Macau China, available here.
On 23 October, 1962 the OECD Council created the Development Centre. To
mark the 40th anniversary, a book titled Development is
Back (DiB) was launched on 23 October, 2002 in the presence of the
Secretary General, his deputy in charge of development, the president of
the Advisory Board, the president of the DAC and many more. Mehria took
pictures of this culmination of the Redux project.
On 9 October I started teaching a graduate course on International Development:
Theory and Policy at the Institut
d´Études Politiques in Paris with Angel Calderon-Madrid,
from Colegio de Mexico, who is spending the academic years 2002/03 and
2003/04 at the OECD Development Centre. The
idea is to make some of the work carried out at the Centre better known
in university circles. The syllabus is available online: click here.
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 26 March, 2002 Professor Richard N. Cooper, Harvard University, presented
Growth
and Inequality: the Role of Foreign Trade and Investment (May 2001).
On November 22, 2001 I gave the inaugural address at the OECD conference
for high-officials on DEVOLVING AND DELEGATING POWER TO MORE AUTONOMOUS
ENTITIES: THE GOVERNANCE OF PUBLIC AGENCIES AND AUTHORITIES held in Bratislava.
The Arc de Triomphe horse race on 7 October, 2001
Paul Krugman visits on 5 June
Welcome back to president Zedillo of Mexico conference
room & terrace
A room with a view on the Seine in front of pont
Mirabeau
Farewell to Thomas (with a view from the Terrasse
at Chardon Lagache)
A party at the SecGen's home on 20 April, 2000 titled
Olivia de Havilland with friends
On 6 October, 1999 the OECD Council appointed me
President of the Development Center
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