From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:04:28 -0800 To: "Rad Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R-G] International meeting in Havana on globalization and development problems International meeting in Havana on globalization and development problems . More than 400 specialists from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa are among the important economic and social scientists who have confirmed their attendance at this third meeting BY LILLIAM RIERA (Granma International staff writer) THE 3rd International Economic Meeting on Globalization and Development Problems, due to take place in Havana between January 29 and February 2, will be different from its predecessors. Previous meetings conceptualized the phenomenon of globalization and made an economic and social analysis with regard to Latin America, but this time delegates will discuss proposals and alternatives to solve the problems. Esther Aguilera Morató, vice president of Cuba's National Economists' Association (ANEC) and president of the Academic Committee, told Granma International that this year's meeting will examine proposals for the actions necessary to transform monetary and financial policies and will also take stock of the dollarization process occurring in Latin America. She explained that delegates would also be examining forms of negotiation in the Millennium Round that comply with the principle of international trade favoring the least developed nations, along with cooperation and integration agreements and how to achieve technology transfers that are really beneficial. "The meeting should also take a stand on the actions that debtors and creditors must take with regard to the foreign debt," she said. It is also expected to analyze positive experiences gained through following various models and national economies, while also drawing attention to those that must not be repeated, she added. Morató emphasized that a very important aspect of the meeting would be "the necessity to make an in-depth study of the characteristics that the new economic order must have under conditions of globalization and the standards of conduct to which multinational companies must comply." The ANEC vice president announced that 150 papers have so far been received and 70 of these will be presented during the plenary and in the various commissions. During the afternoon of January 30, a roundtable discussion will take place during which Guillermo Perry, the World Bank's chief economist, will present a book concerning economic security in the globalization era. Of the 400 specialists from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa who have confirmed their attendance, 35 are important figures in the field of economic and social sciences. Among these will be Nobel prizewinner and president of the International Economists' Association, Robert Solow. He will present one of the meeting's two master lectures, dealing with the problems of development and Cuban specialists' role within the world community of economists. The president of the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Juan Francisco Ocampo, will present the other. Also attending will be Peter Hakim, president of Inter-American Dialogue; Michael Gavin, Latin American research director with UBS Warburg (one of the United States' most important banks); Eric Toussaint, president of the forum for the nonpayment of the foreign debt; Vladimir Davidov, president of the Russian Science Academy's Latin American Institute; Jorge Beinstein from the University of Buenos Aires; Paul Lowenthal from Lovaina University in Belgium; Pablo González Casanova, a Mexican sociologist; and the president of Japan's Economic Theory Society. Morató also announced that representatives from 12 international and regional organizations would be attending, including the World Bank; the Inter-American Development Bank; the World Trade Organization; the Pan-American Health Organization; the Latin American Economic System (SELA); the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI); the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); and the International Labor Organization, which is attending for the first time. ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby Rad-Green List: Radical anti-capitalist environmental discussion. http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/rad-green ---- Leninist-International: Building bridges within Marxism in the tradition of V.I. 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