Yale University conference to focus on Ukraine's agro-industrial potential (04/06/97)

Yale University conference to focus on Ukraine's agro-industrial potential

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A two-day international conference titled "Attaining Ukraine's Agro-Industrial Potential" will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, at Yale University with the participation of Ukrainian policy-makers and government officials, Western economic experts as well as professionals in Ukrainian and international agri-business, banking and other relevant fields.

The conference is sponsored by the Council on Russian and East European Studies and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies with support from the Chopivsky Family Foundation and The Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs.

The conference, which is open to the general public, will be held in seven sessions. Both days' sessions start at 9 a.m., with a break at 12:30-1:30 p.m. and the afternoon sessions to end at approximately 5 p.m.

Opening the conference will be Gustav Ranis, director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, followed by an address by Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S. The keynote address will be delivered by D. Gale Johnson, University of Chicago.

Following is a listing of participants. April 11 - Session II, Part I - "Ukraine's Agro-Industrial Potential": Anatolii Danilenko, head, Agro-Industrial Committee, Department of Land Resouces and Social Development, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; John Costello, president, Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs; Leonid Kozachenko, president, Ukragrobusiness; Session II, Part II - "The Economic Assessment of Ukraine's Agro-Industrial Potential": Stanley Johnson, Iowa State University; Timothy Bodin, senior economist, Cargill; Session III - "Property Rights, Privatization and the Performance-Potential Gap": Valerii Galushko, dean, National Agricultural University; Zvi Lerman, Hebrew University; Session IV - "State Intervention and Control and the Performance-Potential Gap": Petro Sabluk, Institute of Agrarian Economics; Alexander Kaliberda, World Bank, Kyiv; April 12 - Session V - "Financing, Financial Services and the Performance-Potential Gap": David Perry, Massey Ferguson; Mark Lundell, World Bank; Session VI - "Infrastructure, Institutional Support, and the Performance-Potential Gap": Vitalii Tsekhmistrenko, president, RISE-Invest; Nikolai Lobas, director-general, AgroIncom; Session VII - "Technology, Human Capital and the Performance-Potential Gap": Dmytro Melnychuk, president, National Agricultural University; Victor Sitnyk, vice-president, Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; John Miranowski, Iowa State University; Session VIII - "Policies for Closing the Performance-Potential Gap": Czaba Cszaki, World Bank; Charles Becket, University of Colorado; and Peter Sochan, policy director, Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs.

All sessions will be held in the auditorium of Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The sessions will feature simultaneous Ukrainian-English translation.

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