Date and Time: 10 am to 12 pm, March 10, 2010 

This is a development debate broadcasted from Washington DC via video-conferencing with objectives of: Providing an overview of the background of the Emergence of China and India as global economic powers is themajor development success story of turn of the century; Discussing the question of “Has the financial crisis affected the export growth models; and   Debating on what are the lessons of China in terms of pragmatic economic policies (which focus on modest pilot approaches and scale them up as they show success) for Asian economies.  

Targeted Audience of the debate are practitioners and senior executives from the public service, who are involved in planning and implementing export development policies and programs in their respective countries.  In addition, participants from business chambers and other private sector lead institutes will also find this course relevant.  

Speakers:  

Yongding Yu, Institute of World Economic Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Science 

Suman Bery, National Council of Applied Economic Research of India  

Jungho Yoo, Korea Development Institute  

Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, National Economic and Social Development Board of Thailand 

Truong Dinh Tuyen, Senior Adviser to Prime Minister of Vietnam 

Shahid Yusuf, World Bank 

Arvind Virmani, Executive Director for India in IMF  

Registration: Please fill in the registration form and send before Tuesday noon, March 9, 2010, to: 

Ms. Dang Thi Thu Huong  

Vietnam Development Information Center 

2nd floor, 63 Ly Thai To, Hanoi, Vietnam  

Tel: 84-4-3934 6600 ext. 706 

Fax: 84-4-3934 6847  

Email: hdang2@worldbank.org