Infrastructure for Regional Cooperation: ADBI Annual Conference
Agenda

Welcoming Remarks by Peter McCawley, Dean of ADBI

Session I. Panel discussion on "Infrastructure in Asia: What Role for Bilateral and Multilateral Development Banks?"

Moderator: Peter McCawley, Dean (ADBI)

Panelists:
Teruyuki Tanabe (Executive Director, JBIC Institute)
Masahiro Kawai (Head, ADB/OREI)
Fausto Medina-Lopez (Deputy Representative, IADB)

Open discussion

Break

Session II. How much does Infrastructure Aid Regional Growth and Cooperation? Chair: Woo Chull Chung (ADB/JRO)

What do we mean by Infrastructure for Regional Cooperation? by John Weiss (University of Bradford)
Discussant: Douglas Brooks (ADBI)

Infrastructure and Regional Growth By Gilberto M. Llanto (Philippines Institute for Development Studies)
Discussant: Haider Khan (University of Denver)

Open discussion

Lunch Break

Session III. Transport Infrastructure – Connecting Asia Chair: Sununtar Setboonsarng (ADBI)

Trans-Asia Transport Issues and Policy Analysis by Tsuneaki Yoshida, (Tokyo University), Liqiang Ma (ADBI)

Capacity Development for Cross-border Facilitation by JICA

Road Infrastructure and Poverty: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Lao PDR by Jayant Menon (ADBI)

Open discussion

Break

Session IV. Key Issues in Infrastructure: Governance and Finance Chair: Takeo Shikado (IADB)

The Macroeconomic Effects of Infrastructure Financing: A Tale of Two Countries by Douglas Brooks (ADBI)

Governance and Infrastructure by Haider Khan (University of Denver)
Discussant: Yoshiaki Abe (Waseda University)

Open discussion

Closing remarks by Peter McCawley

Reception