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International Forum on Social Capital for Economic Revival

[Date and Time] March 24th and 25th, 2003

14:00 - 17:00 Open session (open to the public)

[Place] Diamond Hotel (25 Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku)

[Goals of the Conference]: Social capital is a concept based on human capital and refers to invisible capital relating to human and social relationships such as trust, mutual benefit, norms and networks, although the definition of social capital varies slightly from researcher to researcher. The importance of social capital for economic growth and development has been pointed out and has become a new interdisciplinary topic that links such fields as economics, management studies, political science, sociology, and education. Attention is also being paid to social capital from the perspective of the revival of the Japanese economy. Leading experts in this field from Japan and overseas have been invited to this conference to introduce recent themes related to social capital and to discuss the relationship between social capital and economics, including the possibility that it can contribute to the revival of the Japanese economy.

[Contents of the Conference]

1.Closed sessions: (1)Agenda; (2)Summaries of each paper presented at the conference (Omori, Hjerppe, Uslaner, Westlund, Fujisawa, Norris, Park); (3)The papers presented at the conference; Omori (PDF-Format 69KB), Hjerppe (PDF-Format 83KB), Uslaner (PDF-Format 122KB), Westlund (PDF-Format 171KB),; Fujisawa (PDF-Format 63KB), Norris (PDF-Format 144KB), Park (PDF-Format 42KB); (4)List of participants; (5)Summary of discussion
2.Open Session: (1)Theme: Social Capital for Japanese Economic Revival; (2)Place: Diamond Hotel,"Star Ruby" room; (3)Program; (a)Keynote speech (14:00-14:50)

Keynote speakers	Tadao Miyakawa	Professor, International Economics Department,Reitaku University;
		and Honorary Professor,Hitotsubashi University
	E.Uslaner	Professor,University of Maryland

(b)Panel discussion (14:50-15:50)

Panelists	Tadao Miyakawa	Professor,International Economics Department,Reitaku Unversity;
		and Honorary Professor,Hitotsubashi University
	E.Uslaner	Professor,University of Maryland
	R.Hjerppe	Director General Government, Finnish Institute for Economic Research
	Yoji Inaba	Director, Research Institute of Capital Formation,
		Development Bank of Japan
Moderator	Takashi Omori	Executive Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute

(c)Break (15:50-16:00); (d)Open discussion (16:05-17:00); (4)Profiles of panelists (PDF Format 13KB); (5)Reference materials for keynote speeches; Professor Miyakawa (PDF-Format 61KB), Professor Uslaner(PDF-Format 73KB); Note: Minutes of the conference will be posted soon.
3.Languages:Japanese and English (with simultaneoustranslation)

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