More and Better Jobs in a Globalized Economy

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More and Better Jobs in a Globalized Economy

with

Juan Somavia, Director-General

International Labor Organization

April 14-15, 2005

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

April 14

4:00pm Welcome and introductions:

George Perkovich, Vice-President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Keynote Panel: Policy coherence as a tool to achieve better employment outcomes in an integrating world

Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labor Organization

Deepak Nayyar, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi and Member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

Sherrod Brown, Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives

François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President,

World Bank

Reception immediately following

April 15

8:30am Continental breakfast

9:00am Tracing the channels through which globalization affects employment and looking at results—an overview of the agenda

Sandra Polaski, Director and Senior Associate, Trade, Equity and Development Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Gerry Rodgers, Director, Policy Integration Department, International Labor Organization

9:30am Channels through which globalization affects employment outcomes

Part 1 Macroeconomic, financial and investment policy channels

Overview Yilmaz Akyuz, former Director, Division on

and interactions Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD

Macroeconomic Colin Bradford, Fellow, Economic Studies, The

policy Brookings Institution

Financial openness Rolph van der Hoeven, Senior Research Advisor,

International Policy Group, Policy Integration Department, International Labor Organization

11:00am Coffee break

Part 2 Microeconomic policy channels

Sanjaya Lall, Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford

Alice Amsden, Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Part 3 Is globalization eroding labor’s share?

Ann Harrison, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Part 4 General Discussion

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Country experiences with globalization and employment outcomes

South Africa James Heintz, Assistant Research Profession, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mexico Robert Blecker, Professor of Economics, American University

India Gerry Rodgers, Director, Policy Integration Department, International Labor Organization

General Discussion

4:30pm Concluding Discussion

Duncan Campbell, Director, International Policy Group, International Labor Organization

Karen Tramontano, President, Global Fairness Initiative

Sandra Polaski, Director and Senior Associate, Trade, Equity and Development Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

5:00pm Adjourn