Organised by: Ministry of Labor of Argentina, UNDP, ILO and ECLAC.

Venue: Islas Malvinas Auditorium, Ministry of Labor of Argentina.

September 22

Opening

Session I: “Globalization and income distribution: Trends and prospects”

Chair: Marta Novick, Ministry of Labor, Argentina
Keynote Speaker: Raymond Torres, Director, International Institute for Labor Studies, Geneva.

Discussant: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Università di Firenze and ILO consultant

Coffee break

Session II: Macroeconomic regime, employment and inequality

Argentina, Roberto Frenkel, CEDES and Universidad de Buenos Aires
Brazil, Franklin Serrano, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Argentina, Martín Abeles, Secretary of Economic Policy, Ministry of the Economy of Argentina

Discussant: Arnaldo Bocco, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic

Lunch break

Session III: Productive structure, employment and equity

Latin America, Mario Cimoli, ECLAC Santiago
Argentina, Matías Kulfas, Bank of the Argentine Nation
Argentina, Victoria Castillo, Ministry of Labor of Argentina

Discussant: Diego Coatz, Argentine Manufacturers Union

Coffee break

Session IV: Social security and equity

Latin America, Fabio Bertranou, ILO Santiago
Argentina, Walter Arrighi, Ministry of Labor of Argentina
Brazil, Rogerio Nagamine Costanzi, Ministry of Social Security of Brazil

Discussant: Rafael Rofman, World Bank, Argentina

September 23

Session V: “Policy coordination to improve income distribution”

Keynote speaker Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Universitá di Firenze and ILO consultant

Discussant: Saúl Keifman, ILO/Universidad de Buenos Aires

Coffee break

Session VI: Money transfer policies and inequality

Latin America, Sergei Soares, IPEA-IPC, Brazil
Uruguay, Ernesto Murro, Banco of de Previsión Social, Uruguay
Argentina, Roxana Maurizio, Universidad General Sarmiento/Ministry of Labor /ILO consultant
Argentina, Claudia Berra, Ministry of Labor of Argentina

Discussant: Marita González, General Labor Confederation of Argentina

Lunch break

Session VII: Distributive impact of the tax regime

Brazil, Marcio Pochman, IPEA, Brazil
Uruguay, Gabriel Lagomarsino, Bank of Social Security, Uruguay
Argentina, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, ILO Consultant

Discussant: Roberto Pereyra, ILO Consultant

Coffee break

Session VIII: Inequality and poverty in Asia and Latin America

China, Andong Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
Latin America, Oscar Altimir, ECLAC Santiago

Discussant: Luis Beccaria, ECLAC Santiago

Roundtable: The social impact of globalization

Jan Kregel, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Marta Novick, Ministry of Labor of Argentina
Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

September 10, 2008.