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1 International Workshop on the Economic and Social Impact of Migration, Remittances, and Diaspora, Yerevan, June 24 25, 2010 Name Organization E mail Telephone number Presentation topic Armenia 1 Anahit Khechoyan Ministry of Economy, Head of Minister s Office akhechoyan@mineconomy.am ( ) Anush Igitkhanyan Central Bank of Armenia aigitkhanyan@cba.am ( ) Armine Ghazaryan IMF rr arm@imf.org ( ) Armine Manukyan IMF rr arm@imf.org ( ) Arsen Manukyan USAID office@caps.am 6 Artem Asatryan RA Deputy Minister of Social and Labour Issues artem.asatryan@mss.am ( ) Ashot Khurshudyan International Center for Human Development akhurshudyan@ichd.org ( ) , Eduard Davtyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO edavtyan@edrc.am ( ) Elena Hakhverdyan RF Federal Migration Service akhverdyan@rambler.ru ( ) Gagik Torosyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO gtorosyan@edrc.am ( ) Remittances, income inequality and poverty in Armenia 11 Gayane Serobyan German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) gayane.serobyan@gtz.de ( ) Gera Voskanyan USAID office@caps.am

2 13 Greta Adamyan Ministry of Finance ( ) Guillermo Tolosa International Monetary Fund (IMF) ( ) Harutyun Sargsyan Central Bank of Armenia ( ) Ilona Ter Minasyan International Organization for Migration ( ) Irina Davtyan Deputy Head of State Migration Service of Ministry of Territorial Administration of Armenia ( ) Jeffrey Paretchan USAID 19 Karine Harutyunyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO ( ) Kristine Sahakyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO ( ) Lilit Sargsyan Central Bank of Armenia ( ) Mushegh Tumasyan RA Deputy Minister of Economy ( ) Nerses Yeritsyan RA Minister of Economy ( ) Nune Hovhannisyan National Correspondent in International Labor Organization ( ) Nune Ohanyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO ( ) Nune Zohrabyan Economic Development and Research Center NGO ( ) Ovsanna Babayan OSCE ( )

3 28 Pegor Papazian National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia ( ) Diaspora engagement and publicprivate partnership 29 Ruben Yeganyan Head of Armenian Social demographic Project NGO 30 Sargis Hovhannisyan Ministry of Territorial Administration ( ) Sona Harutyunyan Head of ''State Employment Service'' Agency ( ) Svetlana Stepanova RF Federal Migration Service ( ) Vache Gabrielyan Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia ( ) Remittances in Armenia: Stylized Facts and Theories in Progress 34 Vahan Stepanyan USAID 35 Vahram Nercissiantz Chief Economic Adviser ( ) Vardan Aramyan RA Deputy Minister of Finance ( ) Vardan Marashlyan Deputy Minister of Diaspora of Armenia ( ) /0 04/ 38 Varsenik Mnatsakanyan German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) ( ) Kazakhstan 39 Aigul Kassimova National Bank of Kazakhstan, Chief expert Balance of Payments Division Balance of Payments and Foreign Exchange Regulation Department (+7 727) Meruert Makhmutova Director, Public Policy Research Center (+7 727) ; Migration and Survey of remittance senders in Kazakhstan

4 Kyrgyzstan 41 Choro Doolotaliev Senior economist from the National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic ( ) ; ( ) ; ( ) Money Transfers of Labor Migrants as on of the Income Sources and Poverty Reduction in Kyrgyz Republic 42 Nurdin Tynaev Head of Empolyment Agency of KR nt 43 Syinagul Batyrbekova Ministry of Economic Regulation ( ) ; ( ) ( ) , ( ) Moldova 44 Andrei Paladi Principal Consultant, State Chancellery ( ) Ecaterina Buracec Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of Moldova, Head of Migration Policy Division ( ) Eugeniu Aftene Head of the Current Transactions Statistics Section, Balance of Payments Division, National Bank of Moldova ( ) Remittances, Real Exchange Rate Appreciation and Monetary Policy in the Republic of Moldova 47 Veaceslav Mamaliga Adviser to Minister, Ministry of Finance of Moldova Russia ( ) ; ( ) Aleksandra Dokuchaeva Institut of SNG (8 903) ; (+7 499) Pavel Chistyakov Centre for Strategic Research, Moscow State University, Department of Social and Economic Geography of Russia (+7 495) ; (+7 916) Diaspora, external trade and FDI in South Caucasus countries

5 50 Sulaymon Shokhzoda Tajikistan Foundation, RF (+7 495) ; (+7 495) Tajikistan 51 Mustafo Niyozov National Bank of Tajikistan, Deputy Head of Department (upravleniye) of the Monetary Policy and Statistics ( ) , ( ) Nuriddin Ismatov Labour Migration and Relations Unit of the Employment and Population s Social Protection Department of the Executive Office of the President firuz_hikmatov@mail.ru ( ) ; ( ) Zafarzhon Burkhonov Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Head of the Department (upravlenie) of Economic Reforms and zafarjon81@mail.ru Financial and Credit Relations ( ) ; ( ) Labor migration and remittances in Tajikistan World Bank & other International Agencies 54 Alexei Kireyev International Monetary Fund (IMF) akireyev@imf.org Remittances, Real Effective Exchange, and Monetary Policy 55 Aristomene Varoudakis World Bank Country Manager avaroudakis@worldbank.org 56 Gohar Gyulumyan World Bank ggyulumyan@worldbank.org 57 Lire Ersado World Bank Senior Economist lersado@worldbank.am (+1 202) The Global Economic Crisis, Migration, and Remittance Flows to Armenia: Implications for Poverty 58 Luca Barbone World Bank, ECA PREM Director lbarbone@woldbank.org (+1 202) Pedro Rodriguez World Bank Lead Economist, Caucasus Economic Management Unit, Europe & Central Asia Region prodriguez1@worldbank.org (+1 202)

6 60 Piyasiri Wickramasakara Former Senior Migration Specialist, International Labour Organization, Geneva Role of Diaspora in Development : International experiences 61 Shoghik Hovhannisyan World Bank shovhannisyan@worldbank.org 62 Souleymane Coulibaly World Bank scoulibaly2@worldbank.org (+1 202) Sudarshan Canagarajah World Bank Lead Economist scanagarajah@worldbank.org (+1 202) The economic crisis in the low income CIS: fiscal consequences and policy responses 64 Yevgeny Kuznetsov World Bank Senior Economist Ykuznetsov@worldbank.org (+1 202) From brain drain to brain circulation? How countries can draw on their talant abroad? 65 Zakia Nekaien Nowrouz World Bank znekaiennowrouz@worldbank.org (+1 202)

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