THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) will host a Regional Conference on Privately Promoted Infrastructure Projects and Privatisation in the Caribbean Basin this August 24 to 26 on the Mona Campus.
The conference is intended to provide a forum for practising economists, engineers, lawyers, managers and university researchers and teachers, to discuss areas of mutual interest associated with privately promoted infrastructure projects and privatisation in the Caribbean.
Conference organisers are therefore inviting persons from industry, the public sector and academia to submit practitioner and peer-review papers as well as proposals for symposia and workshops related to the topic.
Papers may cover a variety of areas such as Project Financing and Asset Based Financial Engineering, Social Benefits of Infrastructure Privatisation, Financial Modelling and Project Evaluation, Analysis of the Performance of Privatised Infrastructure, Divesting Enterp-rises and Assets and Issues of International Trade. Other topics for discussion include Economic Analysis and Modelling, Decision Analysis and Modelling, Public Private Partnership, Analysis and Management of Political and Regulatory Risks, Analysis and Management of Economic Risks, Commitment and Governance and the effects of Multi-national Conditionalities on Private Parti-cipation in Infrastructure Projects, Conference participants will also examine the implications for economic development as well as legal and institutional issues.
The Department of Management Studies at Mona, in conjunction with the Construction, Engineering and Management Programme and the Civil Engineering Department at the UWI's St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad & Tobago will host the conference.
For more details of the topics to be discussed and requirements for submitting papers interested persons may contact Dr. Hilton McDavid or Dr. Michael Haughton at 977-3775 or by fax at 977-3829. Mrs. Winsome Jamison may also be reached at 927-1235.
Contact may also be made by e-mail at ppipconf@uwimona.edu.jm. Information may also be gleaned from the conference websote at http://doms.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/ppipconference. Interested persons must submit abstracts and proposals between March 15 and 30, 2001.
