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GEM-IWG STOCKTAKING MEETINGS


Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel,
Istanbul

July 24- 26 2007

Organized by GEM-IWG in Collaboration with
The Levy Economics Institute
Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City


With Support From

The Ford Foundation

 

Preliminary Program

Downloadable

 

Tuesday July 24, 2007

 

8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Rania Antonopoulos, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A.

 

9:00 – 9:45

SESSION I. GEM-IWG THEMATIC GROUPS ON GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGETING and GENDER AND TAXATION

Presiding: Diane ELSON, University of Essex , U.K.

 

1. Gender Responsive Budgets Group

Hind JALAL, Ministry of Finance, Morocco

The Gender Budgeting Experience in Morocco

2. Gender And Taxation Group

Ahmed EL BOUAZZAOUI, Ministry of Finance, Morocco

Report on the Gender and Taxation Project

 

9:45 – 10:30

SESSION II. GEM-IWG THEMATIC GROUP ON TIME-USE, SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX AND CGE MODELING GROUP

Presiding: Rania ANTONOPOULOS, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A

 

Valeria Renata ESQUIVEL, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmienta , Argentina

Report on the GEM-IWG Website and Virtual Course on Time-Use, Social Accounting Matrix and CGE Modeling

 

10:30 – 11:00 BREAK

 

11: 00 – 11:45

SESSION III. GEM-IWG THEMATIC GROUP ON EMPLOYER OF LAST RESORT AND EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE POLICIES

Presiding: Nilufer CAGATAY, University of Utah , U.S.A. and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A.

 

Rania Antonopoulos,Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A., andHaider KHAN, University of Denver, U.S.A.

Report on the UNDP- Levy Economics Institute Project on the Impact of Employment Guarantee Policies on Pro-Poor Development and Gender Equality: Pilot Cases of South Africa and India

 

Announcement: International Network of Economists for Full Employment and Employment Guarantee (an ILO-Levy Initiative with GEM members’ participation)

 

11:45 – 12:30

SESSION IV. GEM-IWG THEMATIC GROUPS ON MACROECONOMIC CHANGES AND THE WORLD OF WORK and GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKETS AND GENDER INEQUITY IN ASIA

Presiding: Butch MONTES, UNDESA, New York, U.S.A.

 

Yumiko YAMAMOTO, UNDP, Sri Lanka and Naoko OTOBE, ILO, Switzerland.

Report on the UNDP Research Project on Macroeconomic Changes and the World of Work

 

Yumiko YAMAMOTO, UNDP, Sri Lanka and Gunseli BERIK, University of Utah, U.S.A.

Report on the UNDP-GEM- Asia Group Research Project on Globalization, Labor Markets and Gender Inequity in Asia

 

12: 30 – 2:00 LUNCH

 

2:00 – 2:45

SESSION V. GEM-IWG REGIONAL GROUP, GEM- LAC ( GEM Latin America and the Caribbean )

Presiding: The Hon. Cecilia LOPEZ, Senator, Colombia

 

Corina ENRIQUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas (Interdisciplinary Centre for Public Policy Studies), Argentina

Building Knowledge Networks on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Valeria Renata ESQUIVEL , Universidad Nacional de General Sarmienta, Argentinaand Corina ENRIQUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas (Interdisciplinary Centre for Public Policy Studies), Argentina

The First GEM-LAC Course on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics

 

2:45 – 4:00

SESSION VI. GEM- IWG REGIONALGROUPS, GEM- ASIA, GEM-AFRICA, GEM- TRANSITION AND GEM- MENA

Presiding: Naoko OTOBE, ILO, Switzerland

 

Yumiko YAMAMOTO, UNDP, Sri Lanka and Butch MONTES, UNDESA, New York, U.S.A.

Report on Activities and Future Plans of GEM-ASIA

 

Hind JALAL, Ministry of Finance, Morocco

Report on Activities and Future Plans of GEM-Africa and GEM-French Speaking Countries

 

Hind JALAL Ministry of Finance, Moroccoand Ahmed EL BOUAZZAOUI, Ministry of Finance, Morocco

Report on Activities and Future Plans of GEM-MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

 

Dinara ALIMDJANOVA, United Nations Office for Project Services, Maldives

Report on Activities and Future Plans of GEM-Transition Economies

 

4:00 – 4: 15 BREAK

 

4:15 – 5:00

SESSION VII. PUBLICATIONS LAUNCH

Presiding: TBA

 

1. Cecilia LOPEZ , Senator, Colombia

America Latina, Un Debate Pendiente Latin America, Aportes a la Economia y a la Politica con una Vision de Genero : ( Latin America: A Pending Debate), by Cecilia Lopez, Rosalba Todaro, Alma Espino and Norma Sanchis

 

2. Diane ELSON, University of Essex

Feminist Economics of Trade, (eds.) Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown and Nilufer Cagatay, Routledge, 2007

 

3. Nilufer CAGATAY, University of Utah and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A

GEM-IWG Working Paper Series

 

CRUISE – DINNER ON THE BOSPHORUS 7:00 – 11:30 ( please gather at the Lobby at 6:00 )


Wednesday July 25, 2007

 

8:30 – 10:00

SESSION VIII. CREATING COMMUNITIES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FOR A JUST WORLD I

Presiding: Butch MONTES, UNDESA, New York

 

1. Ashwini Deshpande, Annual Conference for Development and Change (ACDC) Coordinator and Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

ACDC Conference and CAPORDE courses

 

2. Shipra NIGAM, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), India

IDEAs Courses and Activities

 

3. Giovanni Andrea CORNIA, Department of Economics, University of Florence and Convenor, Summer School on Development hosted by Unidea UniCredit Foundation and University of Florence, Civita Castellana (Viterbo).

Summer School on Development

 

10: 00 – 10:30 BREAK

 

10:30 – 12:00

SESSION IX. CREATING COMMUNITIES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FOR A JUST WORLD II

Presiding: Butch MONTES, UNDESA, New York

 

4. Corina RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUEZ, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas (Interdisciplinary Centre for Public Policy Studies), Argentina

The Heinrich Boell Course

 

5. Diane ELSON, University of Essex,

The Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization, organized by the Brooks World Poverty Institute and University of Manchester .and IAFFE Annual Conferences

 

6. Yassine FALL, UNIFEM

Capacity Building for Young African Women

 

7. Nilufer CAGATAY, University of Utah and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A

GEM – IWG courses and activities

 

12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH

 

1:30 – 3:00

 

SESSION X. FROM THEORY TO ACTION

Presiding: Cecilia LOPEZ , Senator, Columbia

 

Devaki, JAIN, Activist, India, Yassine FALL, UNIFEM and Solita MONSUD, University of the Philippines

The Casablanca Dream: Women Weave Peace Into Globalization

 

Ipek ILKKARACAN, Istanbul Technical University and WWHR-New Ways, Turkey and Nurcan BAYSAL, GIDEM, Turkey

The Initiative for Women's Labor and Employment

 

3:15 – 5:00

SESSION XI. ROUNDTABLE: TOWARD A HUMANE WORLD ORDER

Moderator: Solita MONSUD, University of the Philippines

 

Andrea CORNIA , University of Florence, Italy

Yassine FALL, UNIFEM, New York

Devaki JAIN, India

Diane ELSON, University of Essex, U.K.

Cecilia LOPEZ , Colombia

Ewa RUMINSKA- ZIMNY, UNECE, Switzerland

 

Thursday July 26, 2007

 

9:00 – 10:00

Keynote Address

Presiding: TBA

 

Andrea Giovanni CORNIA, University of Florence

Pro- Poor and Gender – Aware Macroeconomics

 

10:00 – 10:30 BREAK

 

10:30 – 12:30

SESSION XII. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ?

Moderator: Nilufer CAGATAY, University of Utah and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College , U.S.A

 

All Participants

 

CLOSING DINNER at the GALATA TOWER ( please at the lobby at 7:00 – Dinner will start at 8 pm; 11:30 pm – show and dancing )