[PROGRAM]
9:30-9:40 Opening Address: Saburo Kawai(President of NAFSA)
9:40-10:10 Keynote Address:
"Statistics and Sustainable Economic Development in the Asia and Pacific Region in the 21st Century"
Lau Kak En,
Director, U.N.Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP)
10:10-11:20 Chair:La Ode Syafiuddin
Director, Statistical Analysis and Development, Central Bureau of Statistics(Indonesia)
Session 1. Problems and Prospect of Statistics for Disparity and Statistics for
Human Resource Development
Paper #1 "Portraying Disparity through Statistics: Situations and Methodological Issues"
Tomas P. Africa
Administrator, National Statistics Office
National Economic and Development Authority (Philippines)
Paper #2 "Problems and Prospect of Statistics in Pursuit of Human Development in Malaysia"
Ishak bin Shari, Professor/Director,
Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(Malaysia)
Discussant: Yasuhiro Terasaki
Professor of Econometrics,
School of Management, Science University of Tokyo (Japan)
11:20-11:30 Break
