Message from
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President of Nepal
Rt. Hon'ble Dr. Ram Baran Yadav President of Nepal
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President, CACCI
Amb. Benedicto V. Yujuico President, CACCI
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Honorary President, CACCI
Dr. Jeffrey L.S. Koo Honorary President, CACCI
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President, FNCCI
Suraj Vaidya, President,
Federaton Of Nepalese Chambers of
Commerce & Industry (FNCCI) -
Member, CACCI Executive Committee
Pradeep Kumar Shrestha, Member, CACCI Executive Committee
Past President, FNCCI -
Official Airways
Tentative Program
OCTOBER 3, 2012 (WEDNESDAY)ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES / REGISTRATION
| 09:00 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Final Selection of Winners – The 4th Asia –Pacific Young Entrepreneur Award – The 5th Local Chamber Awards |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Joint Meeting of the Working Groups |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Advisory Board Meeting |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Budget Commission Meeting |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | 80th CACCI Council Meeting |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Opening Ceremony of the 26th CACCI Conference
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| 19:45 -21:45 | Welcome Reception/Dinner |
26th CACCI CONFERENCE
THEME: A VISION FOR SHARED PROSPERITY
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are closer than ever before. Improved connectivity by land, air, water and information technology has deepened economic cooperation and integration. And as the region continues to grow and prosper, its economies become increasingly vital to each other.
Regional cooperation and integration plays a critical role in accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and economic disparity, raising productivity and employment, and strengthening institutions. It narrows development gaps between Asia-Pacific countries by building close trade integration, intraregional supply chains, and stronger financial links, enabling slow-moving economies to speed their expansion.
While a more balanced distribution of growth in the region is critical, there is also a need to set ambitious goals in terms of quality of growth. Growth needs to be both economically inclusive, lifting millions of people in Asia out of poverty, and be environmentally sustainable, setting the stage for Asia to strike a new path toward low-carbon growth. The Conference aims to provide a platform for CACCI members to examine the type of new growth paths emerging in Asia that combines both economic inclusiveness and environmental sustainability and how countries in the region can cooperate and partner with each other for shared economic prosperity.
09:00 - 11:30 Session 1
Investment Opportunities in Nepal
Located between two of the world's largest markets – China to the north and India to the south – Nepal has created a competitive and investment friendly environment by making the administrative procedures simple and easy and also providing attractive incentives and facilities to the foreign investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country currently represents a wide range of companies and countries in a large number of areas – from agriculture to banking, from hydropower and manufacturing to tourism.
This session will invite speakers from both the government and private sector of Nepal to talk about the country's economic environment, trade and investment policies, FDI trends, investment incentives, cost structures, infrastructure and utilities, and prospects and challenges for the country's economic growth and development.
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 -12:45 Session 2
Asia in the Global Economy
The continued fragile recovery in the economies of advanced nations has led many analysts to declare that Asia will increasingly play a more vital role in the global economy. They contend that, with the US economy continuing to witness a patchy recovery and investors still concerned about the sovereign debt overhang in Europe, a resilient Asia will remain at the forefront of the global recovery. The resulting shift in the world economic balance – from the West to the East – is expected to lead to greater responsibility for Asian countries in the global economy.
This session will feature speakers who will examine recent trends and developments in the global economy and their impact on Asian markets, the challenges and opportunities that Asia faces as the region continue to move into the new, post-global crisis era, and developments that are expected to help enhance Asia's role as an economic powerhouse over the next few decades.
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00pm Session 3
Inclusive Economic Growth – Empowering Women and Youth
Many Asian countries have experienced impressive economic growth over the last two decades. However, various data – e.g., household income and expenditure surveys, labor force surveys, tax returns – suggest that growth has not been inclusive, i.e., the benefits of growth have not been widely shared. Economic growth is undoubtedly necessary for substantial poverty reduction, but for this growth to be sustainable in the long-run, it should be broad-based across sectors, and inclusive of the largest part of a country's labor force and social groups (e.g., men, women, old people, and the youth).
This session will invite speakers who will share their views on why inclusive growth could result in a virtuous cycle of fuelling further economic growth; the importance of allowing all social groups, particularly women and youth, to be active participants and beneficiaries of the growth process;and how the government through pro-active policies, can make this happen.
15:00 – 16:00 Session 4
Mitigating the Adverse Impact of Climate Change
The adverse impacts of climate change are among the major challenges faced by Asian countries today. A recent report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) observes that climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 milion people in Asia over the past two years. As the region's economies become increasingly linked through commercial supply chains, the impacts of such disasters are no longer confined to the place of occurrence but have wider regional and local impacts. The ADB expects that, with the likelihood of the increase in the frequency and intensity of the climate-related disaster, the costs of both disaster risk management and post-disaster relief and construction will further increase.
It is important that climate change is anticipated and advance action taken to mitigate its impact and, to the extent this is not possible, to adjust to the change, particularly in respect of water availability and agricultural sustenance.
The speakers for this session will exchange ideas on measures that both the government and private sectors in in the Asia-Pacific region must enact to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resiliency. Discusions will touch on the “transformational change” that countries need to undergo to stave off the likelihood of humanitarian and economic crises iresulting from climate-change disasters in the future.
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:15 Session 5
Regional Trade, Investments and Knowledge Resources
At a time of modest growth in industrial countries, it is imperative that Asia Pacific countries identify new drivers for growth and, at the same time, discover new routes to trade increasingly within the region and explore ways for greater technology and knowledge sharing. Both can be done simultaneously by pursuing regional initiatives that aim to improve regional connectivity and promote capacity sharing and by intensifying efforts towards greater regional cooperation and integration.
This session will focus on the role that the private and the public sectors can play in promoting regional cooperation and integration; how the private sector can contribute, first, through trade and, second, through cross-border infrastructure investments, thereby cutting boundaries and interlinking countries in the region; and what governments can do to ensure an appropriate enabling environment for the private sector to grow and thrive in.
18:00 – 19:00 Cocktails hosted by Japan YEG
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Parallel Breakout Sessions
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 -13 :15 | Parallel Breakout Sessions
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| 13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Parallel Breakout Sessions
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| 16:30 - 16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | B2B Meetings Signing of MOUs |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | 81st CACCI Council Meeting |
| 18:45 -21:30 | Gala Dinner |
- CACCI Everest Golf Challenge
- Optional Post-Conference Tour