The National Association of
Cuban Economists (ANEC) will once again host
economists and other social scientists from the
world over in February, 2007 to discuss central
economic issues in today’s world. One of the main
objectives is to debate political and economic
alternatives to the constraints placed upon full
economic development.
The exchange of ideas
from different schools of thoughts, linked by a
common ground of furthering the understanding of,
and finding solutions to problems of development
will be held at the Havana International
Conference Center.
In a world that is
becoming objectively smaller and speedily more
interconnected and interdependent, the exchange of
ideas, specific regional viewpoints, and different
cultural backgrounds must be shed. Worldwide
representation is essential. Based upon a
multifactorial and multidisciplinary approach.
Finance, trade and regional integration will
contribute to the overall theme of economic and
social development. Environmental, scientific,
technological and entrepreneurial aspects will all
be discussed.
As it is customary of the
Cuban people, the Organizing Committee extends
this invitation and would like to offer its warm
hospitality.
Havana, April 2006
THEMES
Finances
1. The macroeconomic
impact of the exchange policy in underdeveloped
countries.
2. Main challenges faced by domestic financial
systems boosting development.
3. Increasing capital flows towards the
underdeveloped nations.
4. Effective sources of external finance for
development.
5. External debt: the choices.
6. The international financial and monetary
situation promoting stability.
Trade
1. Balance of the
multilateral negotiations within the framework of
the WTO.
2. Increasing underdeveloped countries negotiating
capacity.
3. Doha: a new direction for international trade
or a new international division of labor.
4. The contradictory character of trade
liberalization for development.
5. A fairer and more equitable global trade.
6. Trade negotiations in services and intellectual
property: challenges for underdeveloped countries.
7. New trends and actors in world trade.
Integration
1. Rhetoric and reality
of South American integration.
2. Costs of Latin-American non integration.
3. 6th. Ministerial Meeting of the WTO and the
possible re-launching of FTAA.
4. The FTAs together with the United States:
sector balance and impact on the privatization
process.
5. The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
(ALBA) as an alternative under construction.
6. Impacts and perspectives.
7. Challenges for Asian integration.
8. Projection of African Integration.
Development
1. Notional and
methodological advances of the Theory of
Development.
2. Main trends and effects of the present dynamics
of the international division of labor between
developed and underdeveloped economies. Global
production chains.
3. Key directions for the structural
transformation aimed at reaching development.
Roles of the industry, agriculture and services.
4. The transnational enterprises, the multilateral
economic organizations and the UN the process of
creation of a "Global State".
5. The macroeconomic unbalances of the American
economy and its effects on the performance of the
underdeveloped economies. Perspectives of this
connection.
6. Military expenditures, global performance and
underdevelopment.
7. The economic development from the perspective
of the indigenous movements and other social
movements.
8. Women, economy and integral development.
Case studies
• Determinants of recent
economic success in some underdeveloped countries.
• Peculiarities of the economic development in the
SICs.
• Particularities of the Caribbean economies in
the hemispheric context.
Poverty, inequality and
equity
1. Why is there not any
progress in diminishing poverty? Theoretical
approaches.
2. Is it possible in the present globalized world
to reduce poverty without decreases of inequality?
From models to empirical proofs.
3. Small and mid term political, economic, and
social factors that determine the dynamics of
poverty and inequality.
4. Characteristics of current poverty. Everlasting
processes and mechanism.
5. Migration, women, ethnic groups and poverty.
6. Effective projects to fight poverty. Case
studies.
7. Beyond the Millennium agreements: Agenda with
propositions to increase equity.
Science and Technology
1. The Society of
Knowledge and Information. Possibilities and
restrictions to access.
2. Industrial Development at present stage of the
scientific and technological process for the
underdeveloped nations.
3. International competitiveness: challenges for
the underdeveloped countries.
4. The development in the sphere of services, the
innovation processes and the development path.
5. Directions of scientific and technological
development: Choices and difficulties.
Environment and
Development
1. Impact of the oil
situation for the world economy.
2. Prospects of international conflicts ON the
control of natural resources: energy, water, bio-diversity
and others.
3. From the Summit of Johannesburg to the present.
Enterprises
1. Technological
transfers. Main difficulties of access to new
technologies.
2. Structure of the Labor Market. Qualifications
and gender. Adjustment in number and quality to
the entrepreneurial requirements.
3. Competitiveness. Limiting factors in achieving
an adequate competitiveness of the national
enterprise in the underdeveloped world for the
enterprises of the social and cooperative economy.
4. Control and corruption: Common problems faced
in the internal and external supervision of the
economic activity of the enterprise. Corruption as
an endemic evil of some entrepreneurial systems.
5. Entrepreneurial Financing: Major restrictions
of access to sources for the large, medium, small
and micro enterprises.
6. Economic Integration: Impact of the integration
processes (bilateral and multilateral) in the
national enterprise net.
PAPERS REQUIREMENTS
A one-page abstract and a
brief curriculum must be attached. Deadline
November 15, 2006. Papers should be written in no
more than 25 pages, and sent before December 10,
2006. They should be sent by e-mail or in a 3½
floppy disk using Word as text processor.
