International conference on "Economic
Liberalization and its Implications for Development Policy with Special
Reference to India and Mexico", Mexico City, October 24 - 25, 2005.
This was co-sponsored with the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). This
had around 50 participants from Latin America and Asia. In addition, there
was very substantial participation from the student community of UNAM
and FLACSO, so that the audience numbered more than 100 people on both
days. Some of the most eminent economists in Mexico, as well as policy
makers from government ministries and economists from the UN-ECLAC, as
well as some economists from other parts of the developing world such
as India, presented papers.
Sponsors
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
(Faculty of Economics and Research Project PAPIIT IN302703)
International Development Economic Associates (IDEAS)
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Programme
Monday, 24 October 2005
Location: Unidad de Seminarios Dr. Ignacio
Chávez
Vivero Alto, Ciudad Universitaria
9.30 am
Inauguration by Dr. Roberto Escalante-Semerena, Dean of the Faculty of
Economics, UNAM
10.00 to 12.00
Workshop 1 Financial liberalization and development
policy constraints in India and Mexico
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
Macroeconomic trends after financial liberalization in India
Guadalupe Mántey and Noemí Levy
Impact of financial liberalization on macroeconomic performance, and implications
for developing policy in Mexico
José-Luis Calva
Policy recommendations for sustainable growth with income equality
Edna Armendáriz
Capital account openness and its effects on economic activity
Workshop 2 Exchange-rate policies and their
effects on income distribution
Julio López-Gallardo
Modernization, heterogeneity and employment in Mexico
Isaac Minian
Knowledge and segmentation in the production process, and their importance
for development policy: Evidences from North America and South East Asia
Elena Cardero
The global financial market as a constraint to development policy implementation:
notes on the Mexican experience.
12.00 to 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 to 14.30
Workshop 3 Weak currencies and foreign banking
penetration
Juan Castaignts
Dual monetary regimes in developing countries and scope for monetary integration
in Latin America
Carlos Rozo
Foreign capital take over Mexican banks
Celso Garrido
The Mexican banking sector after the 1995 crisis
Clemente Ruiz-Durán
Global financial systems’ coverage and the bank-excluded: reflections
for development policy
Workshop 4 Monetary control through inflation
targeting and its effects on economic activity
Luis-Miguel Galindo
Asymmetric effects of monetary policy on output and prices: the Mexican
case
Etelberto Ortiz-Cruz
Inflation targeting: the inconsistent rule of the tyrannical auctioneer
Tuesday 25 October 2005
Location: FLACSO
Carretera al Ajusco 377
Col. Héroes de Padierna
Delegación Tlalpan
9.30
Welcome
10.00 to 12.00
Workshop 1 Trade liberalization effects on
growth
Jayati Ghosh and C. P. Chandrasekhar
Trade liberalization in India and China: similar or convergent strategies?
Alicia Puyana-Mutis
Trade liberalization in Mexico: some macroeconomic effects
Jorge Mattar
The complementary agenda for trade liberalization
Workshop 2 Trade liberalization and structural
change
Juan-Carlos Moreno-Brid
NAFTA effects on manufacturing industry
José Romero
NAFTA and Mexico’s agricultural sector development
Jorge-Mario Martínez
Industrial specialization induced by North-South trade agreements
12.00 to 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 to 14.30
Workshop 3 Trade agreements and their effects on employment and labor
income
Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles
NAFTA and employment in Mexico
María-Elena Cardero
From import-substitution to the import-export model
Ivico Ahumada
Globalizations’ impact on labor policies
Workshop 4 Social Aspects of trade liberalization
René Hernández
Trade liberalization effects on economic development and poverty in El
Salvador and Costa Rica
Blanca Torres
Environmental effects of NAFTA, and US see-sawing politics
14.30 Close of conference