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11882214.Pdf Program JICA/JBIC International Workshop “Asian Experiences of Economic Development and Their Policy Implications for Africa” Role of Government in Promoting Sustained and Accelerated Growth in Africa and Lessons from Asian Experiences The stocktaking work, being conducted by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and JBIC (Japan Bank for International Cooperation), is expected to produce research-based policy recommendations to inform the fourth round of the International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV), to be organized by the Japanese Government in May 2008. It intends to draw lessons, both positive and negative, from Asian experiences of economic growth and development, with a view to serving as a useful reference point for African governments in constructing sustained and accelerated growth strategy in their own countries. The proposed workshop is expected to offer a forum of mutual learning for both African and Asian scholars who are concerned with the Africa-Asia nexus. Date and Time: February 6, 2008: 10:30 – 17:30 Venue: International Conference Hall at the Institute for International Cooperation, JICA 10-5 Ichigaya-honmura-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8433 * no admission fee, simultaneous interpretation provided (English/Japanese) Program (subject to change) 10:00 Registration Session㸇: Overview and Asian Experiences (Chair: HIROSHI KATO, Director General, Institute for International Cooperation, JICA) - Opening Address: MASAFUMI KUROKI, Vice President, JICA - Presentation: “Asian Experiences of Economic Development and Their Implications for Africa” ATSUSHI HANATANI, Senior Adviser, JICA (Moderator: JIN SATO, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo) - Presentation:㩷“Can Africa Afford Not To Be Asia? What Does That Mean?” AKBAR NOMAN, Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue(IPD), 10:30-12:30 Columbia University - Comment: YONOSUKE HARA, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies - Presentation: “Indonesia’s Economic Development During and After the Soeharto Era – Achievements and Failings” THEE KIAN WIE, Senior Economist, Economic Research Centre, Indonesia Institute of Science䋨LIPI䋩 - Comment: SHINJI ASANUMA, Visiting Professor, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University - Panel Discussion - Question and Answer 12:30-13:30 Lunch i Program Session 㸈: Prospect of Developmental States in Africa (Moderator: MASUMI SHIMAMURA, Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) - Presentation: “Rethinking Africa’s Development Path: Building a Democratic Developmental State” OMANO EDIGHEJI, Research Director, Human Science and Research Council, South Africa - Comment: TORU YANAGIHARA, Professor, Faculty of International 13:30-15:10 Development, Takushoku University - Presentation: “From Maladjusted States to Developmental States” THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE, Director, United Nation Research Institute for Social Development - Comment: IZUMI OHNO, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies - Panel Discussion - Question and Answer 15:10-15:30 Coffee Break Session 㸉: Some African Experiences of Industrialization (Moderator: SHIGERU OTSUBO, Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University) - Presentation : “Implementing the Development State Model in Africa” WILLIAM KALEMA, Former Chairman of Uganda Investment Authority - Comment: KEIJIRO OTSUKA, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies 15:30-17:30 - Presentation: “What Africa Can Learn from Asia’s Economic Development Experience -The Example of Nigeria’s Economic Reforms from 2003 to 2007” NASIR AHMAD EL-RUFAI, Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nigeria - Comment: HIROYUKI HINO, Senior Adviser, JICA - Panel Discussion - Question and Answer - Wrap-up 17:30 Reception ii Program Speaker Profiles Akbar Noman Akbar Noman is Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He was at the World Bank for much of the period, 1977-2003, where he held a variety of assignments. These included working on macroeconomic management, country strategies, trade policy, financial and private sector development, international economic trends and prospects, poverty, and labor markets. His regional foci included Africa, Asia and the transition economies in Europe and Central Asia. During 1990-93, he served as Economic Adviser to Pakistan's Ministry of Finance and on the Prime Minister's Committee on Economic Policy. In 1981-82, he worked for the ILO's Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion based in Bangkok and in 1982-83 as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He was at the IMF during 1974-77. His work experience includes stints at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in 1972-73 and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in 1973-74. Thee Kian Wie Thee Kian Wie is a Senior Economist, Economic Research Centre, Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Chairman, Board of Trustees, and Member of Advisory Board of the SMERU Research Institute, which is now Indonesia’s leading academic think tank for research on poverty and social issues. He was educated at the University of Indonesia and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from where he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo. Well known as the author of prize-winning books about the Indonesian economy, He has authored or edited approximately 17 books and monographs, and about 70 book chapters and journal articles. In addition, he is a frequent contributor of opinion pieces in reputed Indonesian press outlets. Omano Edigheji Omano Edigheji is a research director in the Policy Analysis Unit, Human Science and Research Council㩷䋨HSRC䋩. He holds a B.A (Hons) degree in History from the University of Jos, an M. A in Social Policy from the University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu Natal) and a PhD in Political Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with specialisation in comparative political economy. Before joining the HSRC, he was the research manager at the Johannesburg-based policy think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). He was also the co-director of the Globalisation and Governance Project, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand. He is an external associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK. His areas of research interest include: globalisation, comparative political economy of developing countries, state and economic transformation, state-society relations, South Africa political economy, including black economic empowerment, governance, democratisation and civil society in Africa. iii Program Thandika Mkandawire Thandika Mkandawire is Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), an autonomous UN agency in Geneva engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. A Swedish national of Malawian origin, he is an economist with many years' experience in the promotion of comparative research on development issues. He studied economics at Ohio State University and the University of Stockholm and has taught at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe. He holds a Doctorate of Letters from Rhodes University. From 1986 to 1996, he was Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) at its headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. Prior to taking up his appointment with UNRISD in 1998, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. He has published broadly on the social sciences in Africa and on problems of policy making, adjustment and democratization. William Kalema William Kalema has been the lead consultant on a number of assignments related to private sector development, capacity building, and institutional development. Notable examples are the National Capacity Building Assessments for Uganda and Namibia, and design of Uganda’s first Private Sector Competitiveness Project funded by the World Bank. In 2001 he worked on the design of Malawi’s Private Sector Development Program. In 2006 and 2007 he worked on the design of Tanzania’s Private Sector Competitiveness Project. He is former Chairman of the Uganda Manufacturers Association, and of the Uganda Investment Authority [UIA]. He is a Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the Uganda Gatsby Trust, a charitable institution that supports collaborative programs between the faculty of engineering at Makerere University and small and medium enterprises in Uganda. He is Executive Chairman of the Kilimo Trust, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation of UK to support agricultural research and to fund innovative agricultural enterprises in East Africa. He is a Director of several companies including DFCU, a Ugandan financial institution, UAP Insurance Uganda, Multichoice Uganda, and East African Breweries. He is Trustee of the Shell Foundation. Nasir el-Rufai Nasir el-Rufai was Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja and Member of the Presidential Economic Team in charge of Public Service Reform from 16 July 2003 untill 29 May 2007. He is currently a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and a member of National Energy Council. He deliberates with and advises the President on energy matters – oil,
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