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At the end of the first phase of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, created in 2000, member organizations of the United Nations, multilateral agencies, national governments, NGOs and public opinion as a whole engaged in a general appraisal not only of what has been achieved, but also of the specific goals and the framework adopted to eradicate poverty.

In 2005, numerous forums met to evaluate the results attained through the implementation of the MDG between 2000-2005, and to conduct a rigorous and critical assessment which would make it possible for the MDG to realize its goals of a sustainable reduction of poverty and eradication of starvation by 2015.  This assessment was the subject of the UN Special Conference in 2005 in New York.  Practical results and perspectives for the next decade showed that the progress made thus far has been insufficient.  Similarly, the Doha Round, which occurred in December in Hong Kong, revealed profound antagonisms and polarization surrounding the issues of open markets and fair trade.

As a result, the agenda instituted in the UN in 2000, remains open and in need of further analyses to estimate its feasibility and commitment to finance economic and social development; with a particular need for concrete and relevant alternatives to promote long term development in Latin America and the developing world.

The absence of the recognition of the issues of redistribution and the growing precarity of the labor market, both identified as being responsible for growing levels of poverty, stand out among the most common criticisms of the MDG framework.  Similarly recurrent are criticisms as to the effects of globalization on opportunities of resuming economic growth in developing countries through international trade.

The purpose of this Seminar, one year after the UN Conference and the WTO meeting in Honk Kong, is to bring this international debate to Brazil to be reconsidered and reshaped from a Latin American standpoint.

The Seminar will last two days, in addition to the opening session on the eve of the Seminar.  Each day there will be a panel discussion in the morning and two plenary sessions in the afternoon.  For each session there will be an expert responsible for summarizing the debate.  On the evening of the first day, international NGO representatives will present their views on how to reform this international agenda.   All sessions will take place at the Institute of Economics and Pedro Calmon Hall.

Coordination:
Lena LAVINAS (IE-UFRJ)
Ana Célia CASTRO (CCJE-UFRJ)
Cristina Possas (DST-AIDS, Ministry of Health)

Sponsors:
Programa DST-AIDS/SVS/MS
Decania do CCJE/UFRJ
FINEP
MINDS
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Banco do Brasil
Fórum de Ciência e Cultura

Local and date
	Local: Brasil - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/ Institute of Economics
	Dates: Sep 4-6 /2006

OPENING ACTIVITIES: September 4

14h00: OPENING SESSION

Welcome reception: Prof. Aloķzio Teixeira (UFRJ rector)
Seminar Purpose and Program: Prof. Joćo Sabóia (Director of the Institute of Economics at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

14h30 – 16h00: OPENING ADDRESS

Minister Patrus Ananias (Social Affairs, Brazil)
Eduardo Suplicy (Senator)
Mariangela Batista Galvćo Simćo (National Director of the DST-AIDS Program, Ministry of Health)

AFTERNOON PAINEL:

16h30 – 18H30: Programs and policies to eradicate starvation and poverty: what is their effectiveness?

Moderator: Walter Belik (IE-UNICAMP)

Patrícia Aguirre (IDAES-CIEPP, Argentina)
Joachim Von Braun (Director-General, IFPRI)
Nelson Villarreal Durán (Investigador y Asesor de la Dirección de la Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto de la Presidencia de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay)
Renato Maluf (CPDA-UFRRJ)

18h30:

Round-table: Yannick Vanderborgth´s book on Basic Income, presented by Lena Lavinas

19h30: Cocktail

MORNING PANEL: September 5

9h00 – 13h30: Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation: an integrated framework or parallel goals?

Moderator: Maria Lúcia Werneck Vianna (IE-UFRJ)

Prof. François-Xavier Merrien (Professor at the Lausanne University)
Dr. Stephen Kay (Federal Reserve) and Prof. Milko Matijascic (Professor at Centro Universitário Salesiano of São Paulo)
Lena Lavinas (Institute of Economics – UFRJ)
Yannick Vanderborght (University of Louvain)

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: September 5

14h30 às 19h00

Session 1: Farmers, but hungry: how to overcome the paradox?

Moderator: Ana Célia Castro (CCJE-UFRJ)

John Adeoti (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research)
José Maria Caballero (WB)
José Graziano da Silva (FAO)
Lisa Buergi (WTI)

Session 2: Socio-economic Vulnerability and AIDS

Moderator: Cristina Possas (DST-AIDS Program, Ministry of Health)

Lia Hasenclever (IE-UFRJ)
Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr (UERJ and Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association)
Maria Cristina Pimenta (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association)
Judith Rius Sanjuan (Consumer Project on Technology - CPTech)
Luciana Teixeira (House of Congress)
Ivo Brito (Prevention Unit – National Programo n AIDS)

Evening Round Table: September 5

19h00 às 21h00

What is the real contribution of NGOs to economic and social development in the South?

Moderator: Simon Schwartzman (IETS)

Cunca Bocayuva (FASE)
Caio Magri (ETHOS Institute)
Dulce Pandolfi (IBASE)
Marilia Pastuk (Ação Comunitária)
Action Aid Brazil

MORNING PANEL: September 6

Moderator: Carlos Medeiros (IE-UFRJ)

Fernando Cardim (IE-UFRJ)
Maurício Borges Lemos (BNDES, Brasil)
Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, UN)
Pervez Tahir (Chief Economist, Planning Ministry, Pakistan)
Miguel Bruno and Jose Eustáquio Diniz (ENCE-IBGE)

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: September 6

14h30 às 19h00

Session 3: Is feminization of poverty the appropriate issue to tackle?

Moderator: Bila Sorj (IFCS-UFRJ)

Peggy Antrobus (DAWN)
Sonia Correa (ABIA-BR)
Sylvia Chant (LSE)
Vera Soares (UNIFEM)

Session 4: Strategies and achievements in the South for the South

Moderator: João Sabóia (IE-UFRJ)

Jan Kregel (Chief Policy Analysis and Development Branch, UN)
Pierre Salama (University of Paris I)
Carlos Medeiros (Institute of Economics – UFRJ)

Dinner: 19h30