Name: PECC XIX: Nineteenth PECC General Meeting
Start: 2010-10-20T08:00:00+08:00
End: 2010-10-22T08:00:00+08:00
Location: Japan, Tokyo

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Digital Technologies, Services and the Fourth Industrial Revolutions
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COVID-19 has Exposed Major Gaps in our Social Safety Nets: In a Post-COVID World Will these Gaps be Closed?
Hugh Stephens
Vice Chair, CANCPEC; Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary

Wednesday, October 20
1745-1830	Registration
1830-2030	Welcome Reception
Thursday, October 21
0845-0930	Registration
0930-1745	Plenary Session
0930–0945	Opening Remarks Dr. Charles Morrison (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC) Mr. Jusuf Wanandi (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC) Amb. Yoshiji Nogami (Chair, JANCPEC / President, Japan Institute of International Affairs)
0945–1115	First Session: Economic Recovery and Growth in Asia and the Pacific Chair: Amb. Donald Campbell (Chair, CANCPEC) Speakers: Prof. Peter Petri (Brandeis University) default Incomplete Recovery(361 KB) Dr. Masahiro Kawai (Dean, ADBI) default Economic Recovery and Asia’s Growth Strategy(49 KB) Dato' Dr. Mahani Zainal Abidin (Chair, MANCPEC/Chief Executive, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia) default Economic Recovery and Growth in Asia and the Pacific(1.22 MB) Q&A
1115–1130	Coffee Break
1130–1300	Second Session: Towards Resilient Societies Chair: Amb. Yoshiji Nogami (Chair, JANCPEC) Keynote Speech: Ms. Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo (President, International Social Security Association) default Keynote Speech: Towards Resilient Societies(35 KB) Speakers: Prof. Charles Yuji Horioka (Osaka University) default The Impact of Social Safety Nets on Saving Rates(70 KB) Prof. Mukul Asher (National University of Singapore) default Making pension promises more credible in Asia-Pacific countries(16 KB) Mr. Yang Yiyong (Director General and Professor, Institute of Social Development Research, National Development & Reform Commission, P.R.C.) default China’s aim to build a Socialist Harmonious Society is to build a Resilient Society(291 KB) Commentators: Prof. Noriyuki Takayama (Hitotsubashi University) default Comments by the Pension Team Leader(38 KB) Dr. Etsuji Okamoto (National Institute of Public Health) default Social Resilience Project: Health Insurance Team Summary(224 KB) Prof. Naoki Mitani (Kobe University) default Unemployment Insurance in East Asian Economies(88 KB) Q&A
1300–1415	Luncheon Keynote Speech: Mr. Yoichi Otabe (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs)
1430–1600	Third Session (Concurrent Sessions) - Human Security
	Concurrent Session 1: Demography / Aging Societies Chair: Amb. Antonio I. Basilio (Chair, PPECC) Speakers: Prof. Graeme Hugo (The University of Adelaide) default Demographic Ageing in East and Southeast Asia and Implications for the future(709 KB) Prof. Takao Komine (Hosei University) default A Long-term Forecast of Demographic Transition in Japan and Asia(304 KB) Mr. Yang Yiyong (Director General and Professor, Institute of Social Development Research, National Development & Reform Commission, P.R.C.)
	Concurrent Session 2: Environmental sustainability in urban centers (PECC Project) Chair: Hon. Michel Rocard (Chair, FPTPEC) Speakers: Mr. Joachim Bitterlich (Executive Vice President International Affairs, Veolia) pdf Environmental Sustainability in Urban Centers(1.04 MB) Prof. Tan Khee Giap (Chair, SINCPEC) default An Empirical Study on Ranking of Global Liveable Cities and Policy Simulations(1.64 MB) Prof. Coral Ingley (Chair, NZPECC) pdf Toward a Good Governance Approach in Eco-Cities(876 KB)
	Concurrent Session 3: Disaster Relief Chair: Dr. David Hong (Vice-Chair, CTPECC) Speakers: Dr. Liang-Chun Chen (Director, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction) pdf Pre-disaster Relief for Reducing Impacts by Typhoon(2.71 MB) Dr. Don Gunasekera (Senior Economist, The CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science) pdf Rethinking Disaster Risk Management(192 KB) pdf Rethinking Disaster Risk Management(70 KB) Mr. Mikio Ishiwatari (Senior Advisor, JICA) pdf Climate Change Adaptation in Disaster Management(1.86 MB)
	Concurrent Session4: Pacific Economic Outlook(PEO): Macrofinancial Linkages and Financial Deepening (PECC Project) Chair: Prof. Akira Kohsaka (International Coordinator, PEO Project and Professor, Osaka University) Speakers: Prof. Akira Kohsaka (International Coordinator, PEO Project and Professor, Osaka University) pdf Macro-financial Linkages and Financial Deepening(4.06 MB) Prof. Ronald I. McKinnon (Stanford University) default China’s Exchange Rate, Trade Balance and Wage Explosion(275 KB) Commentators: Dr. Pakorn Vichyanond (Research Director for Financial and Capital Markets, the Macroeconomic Policy Program, TDRI) Ms. Kumiko Okazaki (Senior Economist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan) pdf Additional Information: Some Aspects of Financial System in China(546 KB) Prof. Huang Weiping (Renmin University)
1600–1615	Coffee Break
1615–1745	Fourth Session: Climate Change Chair: Mr. Jusuf Wanandi (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC) Speakers: Dr. Shuzo Nishioka (Senior Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies) pdf Asian Leap-Frog Opportunity Towards Green Growth(1.05 MB) Dr. Eric Zusman (Policy Researcher, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies) pdf United States Climate Policy: Domestic Drivers of International Cooperation(959 KB) Dr. Hardiv Harris Situmeang, (Advisor to the National Development Planning Agency and Indonesian National Council on Climate Change) default National Integrated Process – Energy Sectors(1.92 MB) Dr. Soogil Young, (Chair, KOPEC / Chairman, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Korea) pdf Towards an Effective Post-2012 Climate Regime(987 KB) Mr. Zhao Xiusheng (Professor / Research fellow, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Tsinghua University) pdf China’s Action for Climate Change and Low Carbon Energy Developments(2.76 MB) Q&A
1830–2030	Dinner Remarks: The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Mr. Seiji Maehara Speech: Looking ahead to 2011 Mr. Marc M. Wall (Minister-Counselor of the U.S. Embassy) Speech
Friday, October 22
0845–0915	Registration
0915–1415	Plenary Session
0915–0945	Keynote Speech: Mr. Cheng Siwei (Honorable Chair, CNCPEC and Former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress)
0945–1115	Fifth Session: The Post-2010 APEC Trade Agenda Chair: Dr. Charles Morrison (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC) Keynote Speech: Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng (Second Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Brunei Darussalam) Speakers: Prof. Shujiro Urata (Waseda University) default The Post-2010 APEC Trade Agenda(185 KB) Dr. Narongchai Akrasanee (Chair, TNCPEC) default The Post-2010 APEC Trade Agenda(322 KB) Prof. Robert Scollay (University of Auckland) default A Post-2010 Asia-Pacific Trade Agenda: Report from a PECC Project(242 KB) Q&A
1115–1130	Coffee Break
1130–1300	Sixth Session: Roundtable Discussion The Future of Global and Regional Cooperation: Looking toward the G-20 and APEC Moderator: Amb. Yoshiji Nogami (Chair, JANCPEC) Speakers: Dr. Charles Morrison (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC) Mr. Jusuf Wanandi (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC) default G20: Preparation for the Summit in Seoul (23 KB) Prof Yung-Chul Park (Distinguished Professor, Department of International Studies at Korea University) default The World Economy and the G-20 Agenda(2.12 MB) Dr. Manfred Wilhelmy (Chair, CHILPEC) default Looking toward the G-20 and APEC. A Latin American Perspective(21 KB)
1300–1415	Luncheon Keynote Speech: Prof. Motoshige Itoh (University of Tokyo)

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