INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIASPORA FOR DEVELOPMENT Washington, D.C July 2009 World Bank TENTATIVE AGENDA* Monday, July 13

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1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIASPORA FOR DEVELOPMENT Washington, D.C July 2009 World Bank TENTATIVE AGENDA* Monday, July 13 08:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast 09: Welcome and Opening Opening Remarks: Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala 09: Keynote Session: Impact of the Crisis on Migration and Remittances Speaker: Dilip Ratha Chair: Hans Timmer Presentation on the new global forecast of remittance flows Impact of crisis on new migration flows, returns and migration policies Discussions on the outlook on remittances in key countries and regions such as India, Mexico, Philippines, the Gulf and Eastern Europe * The session order and speakers are likely to change.

2 2 11:00 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 12:45 Session I A: Diaspora as a Strategy for the Global mobility of Skills Session I B: Contributions of Unskilled Diaspora to Development Jeong Hyop Lee and AnnaLee Saxenian Do we need a double-edged sword?; Triggering networking of Silicon Valley Korean diaspora and their contribution to home country institution transformation Johnathan Crush (SAM) The South African Diaspora and The Diaspora in South Africa: Implications for Research, Policy and Development, Yevgeny Kuztnesov (World Bank) Diaspora as part of the country: International mobility of skills and transformation of domestic elites Yevgeny Kuztnetsov World Bank David Leblang, (University of Virginia Another Link: Migrant Networks and International Investment Aime Saba (APEC and AUSAID) The Burden of Responsibility faced by unskilled diasporas in Australia: The Cases of Resettled Refugees from Burundi and Sudanese in Australia Ayman Zohry (IOM, Founding President of the Egyptian Society for Migration Studies) A Study on the Dynamics of the Egyptian Diaspora: Strengthening Development Linkages Marion Panizzon (Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute) Diasporas as Brokers of Eurafrican Entrepreneurship: Formalizing public-partnerships in Senegal s new agreements with France and Spain 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00 16:00 Session II A: Mobilizing Diaspora Investments 1 Session II B: Mobilizing Diaspora Investments 2 Dilip Ratha (World Bank) Diaspora Bonds Representatives from Israel and India: The Thornsten Beck (Tilburg University CEPR and Maria Soledad Martinez (World Bank) What

3 3 experience of diaspora bonds in India and Israel Representatives from Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Phillipines, Kenya and Rwanda: Recent experiences on diaspora bonds Edward Kadozi Rwanda Diaspora Mutual Fund explains the cost of remittances? An examination across 107 country corridors Douglas Johnson Beyond Remittances: Affinity Redistribution through Islamic Finance Suhas Ketkar and Manoj K. Dora (Vanderbilt University) Income and Wealth of Recent Immigrants to the United States 16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 17:30 Session IIIA: Deepening Diaspora Ties 1 Session III B: Deepening Diaspora Ties 2 Tim Fitch (IPPR) Making the most of the British Disapora Representative from Ireland Representative from Australia Discussions James Fadoukon, Policy Framework for a Mutual Beneficial Relationship Between Nigeria and Nigerians in the Diaspora S. Iruday Rajan and V.J. Varghese (Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India) Transnationalisation of Development: Diaspora resources and National Regimes of Transnationalism Hongxing Cai (The University of Sydney) The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora in the Development of Research Universities 18:00-20:00 Cocktail Reception

4 4 Tuesday, July 14 08:00 9:00 Breakfast 09:00-9:30 Opening Remarks 9:30-11:00 Session IVA: Mobilizing Highly Skilled Diaspora Session IVB: Working with the Diaspora and Diaspora Associations Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development) The Financial effects of highskill emigration: New data on African physicians abroad Frannie A. Leautier (Secretary of the Board of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Science and Technology) Diaspora Policy in the Face of Global Labor Market Constraints: The Case of the Africa Institute of Science and Technology Professor Noreen M. Sugrue, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Professor Carole Kenner, Dean, College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Understanding Health Care Worker Migration in order to better understand the diaspora and care workers. Pier de Vries (Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken DPV/Cluster Internationale Migratie) A SWIC - analysis for working with diaspora: Recommendations for all stakeholders". Lars Ove Trans and Ida Marie Vammen (DDIS) African Diaspora Associations in Denmark: A Study of their Development Activities and Potentials Jennifer M. Brinkehoff (George Washington University) Diaspora Organization Capacity Building: A Call and Agenda 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

5 5 11:15 12: 45 Session V: Diaspora Actions Emmen Ekong, Shalin Jethi, Bockarie Kamara, Afford Assessing the development impact of an engaged diaspora: Experiences in Sierra Leone Nishinth Acharya, Yale School of Public Health Depande Foundation Molly Pollack (Chile Global) Female diaspora entrepreneurs in homeland development Elizabeth Chaco (GW) Diaspora Investments, Motivations and Performance: The Case of Ethiopia Discussions 13:00 14:30 Lunch 14:30 15:45 Session VI: Collective Remittances: Country Experiences Rodolfo Cordova and Erica Marcus (Center for Alternatives for Social Development) The 3*1 Program for Migrants in Tanhuato, Michoacan Myriam Hazen (visiting scholar MPI) Beyond 3*1: Linkng sending and receiving societies in the development process Guatemala and its Diaspora: A Case Study, Center for International Migration and Integration Discussions 15:45 16: 15 Coffee Break

6 6 16:15 17: 30 Session VII:Circular Migration and Returns Return Migration and Small Enterprise Development in the Maghreb Flore Gubert and Christophe J. Nordman IRD, DIAL Circular Migration: The Mauritian Experience Anil Kokil Kumar Diraour Burcu (DG EU Affairs) Migration and Return Strategies for Turkish Diaspora in Europe: Oneway or Two-Way Tickets 17:30 18:30 Closing Justin Lin Octaviano Canuto