The 4th VDF-Tokyo
Conference
Saturday, 9 August 2008 at GRIPS,
Room 3C (3rd floor) 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN Tel:
03-6439-6000 |
09:00-09:45 |
Registration |
09:45-10:00 |
Introduction of VDF
and
VDF-Tokyo |
Morning
Session
<Keynote Presentations> |
10:00-11:00 |
"Industrial Strategy
for Vietnam's New Era: Policy Content and Formulation
Method"
Prof. Kenichi Ohno
(Professor, GRIPS; Research Director, VDF) |
11:00-12:00 |
"Finance and Enterprise Sector Reform in Vietnam"
Mr. Noritaka Akamatsu
(Finance & Private Sector Program Manager for Vietnam,
Regional Advisor for Capital Market Development, East Asia &
Pacific,
The World Bank) |
12:00-13:15 |
Lunch (on the 1st floor) |
Afternoon
Session
<Presentations> |
13:30-14:15 |
"Poverty,
Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam"
Dr. Katsushi Imai (Assistant
Professor,
Development Economics at Department of Economics, School of
Social Sciences, and a faculty associate of Brooks World
Poverty Institute (BWPI),
University of Manchester, UK) |
14:15-15:00 |
"Demographic
Changes and the Pension Finances in Vietnam: A Long-term
Stochastic Actuarial Assessment"
Dr. Wade D. Pfau (Associate Professor,
GRIPS)
|
15:00-15:20 |
Tea
break and one-page presentation display |
15:20-16:05 |
"The
Economics of Not Using the Health Insurance Card: A Case
Study of Vietnam"
Mr. Nguyen Trong Ha (PhD candidate,
Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University;
on-leave Lecturer, NEU) |
16:05-16:50 |
"The Revolution of Vietnamese
Distribution System"
Dr. Le Viet Trung
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Kobe University, Japan) |
16:50-17:25 |
General exchange of ideas and
information |
17:25-17:30 |
Closing
Remarks |