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IDEAs Conference: Development Strategies in an Uncertain and Unequal World Conference Schedule

(Videos of the Conference)

DAY 1- 3rd August 2022

Session 1 (09:30–11:00 MYT/01:30–03:00 UTC)

  • Chair: Jayati Ghosh
  • Hezri Adnan (Director, MIER): Welcome Remarks
  • Vikas Rawal: Introductory Remarks
  • Prabhat Patnaik: A Second Climacteric for Capitalism
  • Charles Abugre: Financing Challenges of Africa’s Middle-Income Countries
  • Jomo K S: The Threat of Stagflation and its Implications
[Tea break]

Session 2 (11:30–13:00 MYT/03:30–05:00 UTC)

  • Chair: Antoinette Raquiza
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar: From Dollar Glut to Scarcity: Capital Flows and Vulnerability in Developing Economies
  • Pablo Bortz: Financial, External and Real Effects of Surges of Capital Flows in Developing Countries
  • Noemi Levy (virtual): Capital Globalization, The XXI Century Crises & Latin America Backwardness: What’s Next?
[Lunch break]

Session 3 (14:00–15:30 MYT/06:00–07:30 UTC)

  • Chair: Jomo K S
  • Jayati Ghosh: Are Global Trade Patterns responsible for crises in Low and Middle Income countries?
  • John Samuel: Fighting inequality and Injustice: Lessons from Asia
  • Ndongo Samba Sylla: Money and Underdevelopment: the CFA franc issue in Francophone Africa
[Tea break]

Session 4 (16:00–17:45 MYT/08:00–09:45 UTC)

  • Chair: Sbusisiwe Sibeko
  • Ahilan Kadirgamar: The Crisis in Srilanka
  • Oscar Ugarteche: Peru and the Covid Recovery: a Keynesian Approach
  • Rashed Titumir: Economic Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh
  • Jose Enrique A Africa: Combating the Momentum of Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in the Philippines.

DAY 2- 4th August 2022

Session 1 (09:30–11:00 MYT/01:30–03:00 UTC)

  • Chair: C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Andrés Arauz Galarza (virtual): Progressive Economic and Industrial Policies: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia
  • Alicia Puyana (virtual): Dilemmas of the Mexican Path Economic Recovery
  • Jessica Vechbanyongratana: COVID-19 and NEET Youth in Thailand
  • Sbusisiwe Sibeko: Closing the Macro-Micro Chasm: Using Fiscal Policy to Build Household Resilience
[Tea break]

Session 2 (11:30–13:00 MYT/03:30–05:00 UTC)

  • Chair: Gloria Afful-Mensah
  • Rohit: Keep Oil in the Soil and Coal in the Crust
  • Dipa Sinha: Food Security in an Uncertain World
  • Agostina Costantino: The gender bias in the post-Covid economic recovery in Latin America
[Lunch break]

Session 3 (14:00–15:30 MYT/06:00–07:30 UTC)

  • Chair: Jayati Ghosh
  • Yong-Yoon: Covid-19, Thailand & Informal Work
  • Jesim Pais: Covid Pandemic and Informal Workers in India
  • Wei Zhang (virtual): Trapped Workers: The Impact of Formalization on China’s online Ride-hailing Industry
[Tea break]

Session 4 (16:00–17:30 MYT/08:00–09:30 UTC)

  • Chair: Muttaqa Yushau
  • Kim Taekyoon: Governance Failure in Global Health Crises and Prospects of Collective Action for Resilience in Asia: In Search of Regional Health Security
  • Neil Coleman: Prospects for a Progressive Universal Basic Income Guarantee: Reflections on the South African experience
  • Sira Nukulkit: Aspects of Distributive Justice and COVID-19 in Thailand

DAY 3- 5th August 2022

Session 1 (09:30–11:00 MYT/01:30–03:00 UTC)

  • Chair: Jose Romero
  • Alejandro Vanoli (virtual): Multiple Objectives of a Central Bank Dealing with Capital Flows in a Global Crisis
  • Surajit Mazumdar: The Crisis of Globalization and Development: The Case of India
  • Antoinette Raquiza: Investigating the Philippine Services Export Economy
[Tea break]

Session 2 (11:30–13:00 MYT/03:30–05:00 UTC)

  • Chair: Rashed Titumir
  • Pali Lehohla: Tragedy of Commons or is it of the private
  • Fachru Nofrain: Sustainable Industrialization in the Era of Uncertainty: Instability and Tendency?
  • Asmaa Abumezied (virtual): Analyzing Care Policies and Practices in Times of Austerity and Conflict: The Case of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Gloria Afful-Mensah: Innovation activities among women-owned enterprises in Ghana – the role of CAP – BuSS Loan
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