6 th International Conference

Globalization and Social Stress

Organizers:

T I G E R & YALE University

Sponsors:

Press partner:

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, 23rd October

9.00 - 11.00
Opening session:

Opening address: Prof. Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Rector of the Leon Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (WSPiZ), Warsaw, Poland

Introductory remarks by Prof. Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Director of TIGER, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (1994-97 and 2002-03)

Special address:

Prof. Robert A. Mundell

1999 Nobel Prize winner in Economics,
Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, USA

"One Global Economy, One World Currency?"

Discussion

11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break

11.30 - 13.30
1st Session: Migration, Labor Markets and Human Development

Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Suranjan Weeraratne, McGill University, Montreal, Canada:
State Policy and International Ethnic Migrants. Indian and Chinese Experiences in Asia

Patricia Pessar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
Globalization and the Feminization of Migration

Mario Nuti, London Business School, UK, and University 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy:
The Non-Globalization of Labor Markets: Impediments and Implications

Andrzej Bolesta, TIGER-WSPIZ, Warsaw, Poland:
The European Union Policy on Asylum and Immigration: Building a Fortress Europe?

Discussants:
Aleksandra Sznajder, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Tony Addison, UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, Finland

13.30 - 14.30
Buffet lunch

14.30 - 16.00
2nd Session: Globalization and EU Accession

Laszlo Csaba, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary:
"Globalization" and "Europeanization": A Double Challenge for Emerging Europe

Anna Grzymala-Busse, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
Formal Demands, Informal Responses: The EU and State Reform in Candidate Countries

David Cameron, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
The Challenges of EU Accession

Discussants:
Tadeusz Kowalik, Polish Academy of Sciences and WSPiZ, Warsaw, Poland
Keith Darden, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Friday, 24th October

9.00 - 9.45

Special address:

Prof. Longin Pastusiak

Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Poland

"Globalization and the New World Order"

9.45 - 11.00
3rd Session: Globalization: Opportunities and Threats for Economic Growth

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, TIGER-WSPiZ, Warsaw, Poland:
Globalization, Transition, and Development Prospects

Gur Ofer, Hebrew University, Israel:
Globalization and the Welfare State: Developed, Developing and Transition Countries

George Vojta, Financial Services Forum, New York, USA:
Globalization: Equities and Inequities. Moving Forward

Discussants:
Laszlo Csaba, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
T.N. Srinivasan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

11.00 - 11.30
Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.30
4th Session: Globalization and Poverty

Gustav Ranis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
Growth, Poverty Alleviation, and Human Development

T.N. Srinivasan, Jessica Seddon Wallack, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
Globalization, Growth, and the Poor

Nguyuru H.I. Lipumba, The Multi-Environmental Society, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Globalization and Social Stress in Tanzania

Alexey Shevyakov, Center for Socioeconomic Measurements, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia:
Globalization, Economic Growth and Inequality

Discussants:
Gur Ofer, Hebrew University, Israel
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

13.30 - 14.15
Buffet lunch

14.15 - 16.15
5th Session: Globalization, Natural Resources, and Institutional Choice

Tony Addison, UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, Finland;
Aminur Rahman, University College London, UK:
Capacities to Globalize: Why Are Some Countries More Globalized than Others?

Pauline Jones Luong, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA:
Rethinking the Resource Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutional Capacity

Keith Darden, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA:
Globalizing Liberalism: Economic Ideas and Institutional Choice

Xia Yeliang, School of Economics, Beijing University, China:
Globalization and China's Institutional Progress during Transition

Discussants:
D. Mario Nuti, London Business School, UK and University 'La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Gustav Ranis, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA

16.15 - 16.30
Closing remarks