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Opening Remarks: AIPRG Executive Board

Keynote Address: The Impact of Global Financial-Economic Crisis on the Economy of the Republic of Armenia. Short- and Long-term Perspectives
Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Keynote Address: Global Economic Crisis: What Can Small Economies Do?
Asad Alam, Country Director for the South Caucasus, World Bank

Coffee Break

Impact of the Global Crisis on Emerging Economies:
Lorenzo Giorgianni, Division Chief, Strategy and Policy Review Department, IMF

Financial Crisis: Socio-Economic Impact, Political Economy of Response:
Ben Slay, Senior Economist, UNDP

SESSION 1

Roundtable: Consequences of the global crisis and policy responses: lessons from European Countries in Transition

Chair: Ben Slay, Senior Economist, UNDP

Cross-country presentations

Crisis in the Russian Economy and its Regional Implications:
Lev Freinkman, Institute for the Economy in Transition

Global Financial Crises Impact on Macedonian Economy:
Marjan Nikolov, President, Center for Economic Analyses.
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The Global Financial Crisis: Causes, Transmission Channels and New Challenges:
Marek Dabrowski, President, Center for Social and Economic Research

Ukraine: Sergiy Kruglyk, Director of External Economic Relations Department, National Bank of Ukraine

Lunch Break

SESSION 2

The role of bilateral and multilateral institutions in mitigating the impact of global crisis

Chair: Sergey Kapinos, Head of OSCE office in Yerevan

The Role of the EU in Supporting Emerging Economies in Coping with the Crisis:
Raul de Luzenberger, Head of Delegation, Ambassador, Delegation of the European Commission to Armenia

Coping with the Global Economic Crisis: Support by the World Bank to ECA countries and Armenia:
Aristomene Varoudakis, Head of World Bank Office in Yerevan

Lessons from Past World Bank Crises Responses:
Konstantin Atanesyan, Sr. Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
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Coffee Break

SESSION 3

The impact of the crisis on Armenian Economy

Chair: Balazs Horvath, Poverty Practice Leader in Bratislava, UNDP

Crises and Structural Transformation: Long Term Prospects of the Armenian Economy:
Jesus Felipe, Principal Economist, Head of the Strategic Research Unit, and Director of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Institute, in the Central and West Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank

Global Crisis Issues and Challenges for the Armenian Financial System:
Vahe Vardanyan, Head of Department, Central Bank of Armenia

Armenia: Social Impact of the Global Economic Crisis:
Gohar Gyulumyan, Economist, World Bank

SESSION 4

The Impact of the Crisis on Sectors

Chair: David Akopyan, AIPRG Board Member

Armenia's Construction Industry: It's Growth, Decline, and Future:
Alen Amirkhanyan, DCS, cjsc

Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Tourism Destinations & Mitigations Efforts:
Alan Saffery, Senior Competitiveness Expert, Competitive Armenian Private Sector

ICT Industry Development in Armenia:
Karen Vardanyan, Executive Director, Union of Information Technology Enterprises

Reception

SESSION 5

Policy response and the prospects for growth of the Armenian economy

Chair: Heghine Manasyan, AIPRG Board Member, CRRC Director

Anti-Crisis Policies in Armenia:
Mushegh Tumasyan, Deputy Minister of Economy

Policies and strategies to improve competitiveness:
Karen Grigorian, Senior Economist, World Bank

"Growth / Competitiveness" paradox:
Sevak Hovhannisyan, EV Research Center

Coffee Break

ROUNDTABLE

Moderator: Armine Khachatryan, AIPRG Board Member

COPING WITH CRISIS: THE WAY FORWARD

Lunch Break

Launch of the Development and Transition newsletter:
"The Global Economic Crisis in Europe and Central Asia: Initial Impact and Lessons Learned"

Launch of the 13th issue of "Development and Transition" newsletter, published by UNDP jointly with the London School of Economics (LSE)

Opening Remarks: Nerses Yeritsyan, Minister of Economy

Opening Remarks: Consuelo Vidal, UN Resident Coordinator / UNDP Resident Representative

Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis:
Ben Slay, Senior Economist, UNDP

Understanding the Crisis: Layer upon Layer:
Balazs Horvath, RBEC Poverty Reduction Practice Leader, UNDP

Responding to crisis: core and periphery:
Marek Dabrowski, President, Center for Social and Economic Research

Crisis Impact on Armenia:
Aram Gharibyan, Advisor to the Prime Minister

Discussants:

Aristomene Varoudakis, Head, World Bank Office in Yerevan

Levon Barkhudaryan, Avag Solutions

Coffee Break

WORKSHOP

The Impact of Global Crisis on Armenia: Empirical Evidence

Presentations by economists and academicians

Chair: Haik Sargsyan, Dean, Economics Department, Yerevan State University

Opening Remarks: Vache Gabrielyan, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Armenia

Macroeconomic Impact of the Crisis on Armenia:
King Banaian, AIPRG fellow, chairman at St. Cloud State University, USA
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A Network View of Economic Development. The Product Space and its consequences for Economic Development:
Jesus Felipe, Principal Economist, Head of the Strategic Research Unit, and Director of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Institute, in the Central and West Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank

Impact of Remittances on Growth:
Vahram Ghushchyan, School of Corporate Governance

Public Debt Management in Transition Countries: The Case of Armenia:
Luciano Greco, Assistant Professor of Public Finance, University of Padua, Visiting research fellow at the Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics
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Q&A

Reception