Pacific Development Conference In January

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 26

Pacific Development Conference In January

fA’.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) HONOLULU (Hawaii). Twenty-seven leading economists from 11 Asian or Pacific nations, Britain, Canada and the United States will participate in the Second Pacific Trade and Development Conference at the East-West Centre, Honolulu, in early January, says a statement from the centre.

The four-day conference will begin on January 8 and will concentrate on various aspects of trade and aid in the Pacific area. A similar conference, the First Pacific Trade and Development Conference, was held in Tokyo in January, 1967. Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii will open the conference with a speech outlining the state’s role in develop-

ment in the Asian and Pacific area. It will be his first major speech of the year in connection with observance of the tenth anniversary of statehood.

Those attending will devote discussion to four principal: areas of concern: future world trade policy; trade co-opera-[ ! tion among the advanced j Pacific countries; co-operation [ with respect to money and I capital movements; evaluaI tion of aid and trade policies [of the advanced countries I towards Asian developing I countries.

Among the specific topics to be discussed and outlined in the presentation of papers will be the proposed Pacific free trade area which was examined in the Tokyo conference, the role of the Asian Development Bank, and the place of aid and trade in economic development as experienced by Taiwan, Korea, Pakistan and Indonesia.

j Sponsors of the conference are the Japan Economic .Research Centre, the Asia Foundation, the Australian

National University, the State of Hawaii, Standard Oil Company of California, and the United States Agency for International Development, with support from the EastWest Centre. The centre is a federal project in international education at the University of Hawaii. Dr Kiyoshi Kojima of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, will serve as conference chairman: and Dr Hung Wo Ching, chairman of the board of Aloha Airlines, as chairman of the committee for Hawaii participation. Besides economists from Australia, Canada, Republic of China, Britain, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines and the United States, there will be representatives from the Government of Pakistan’s Planning Commission: the Japan Economic Research Centre; the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (E.C.A.F.E.); the

I National Planning Association in Washington, D.C.; the State of Hawaii Planning and Economic Development Department: the Asia Foundation; the Government of i Malaysia’s Economic Plan- : ning Unit: the Asian DevelopI ment Bank; the National i Bureau of Economic Research, I New York. I Representatives from New Zealand are: Dr L. V. Castle, i McCarthy Professor of Eco- | nomics, Victoria University of Wellington, and Dr 1.. A. McDougall, head of the department of economics, Massey University. Dr Castle will present a paper on “Alternative Policies in Trade Co-operation of the Advanced Pacific Countries in the next Five Years” while Dr McDougall will join Dr Peter Drysdale of the Australian National University in the presentation of a i paper on “The Japan, Austraj lian. New Zealand Free Trade ;Area and Asian Developing ' Countries.”