| Monday, 3 June | ||||
 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Registration | |||
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Opening of the Conference Gaël Raballand, Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank Robert Ireland, Head, Research and Strategies Unit, World Customs Organization | |||
| 9:45 am - 11:15 am | Panel 1. Informality and Customs: Institutional and Regional Perspectives. Moderator: Thomas Cantens, WCO Research and Strategies Unit and Centre Norbert Elias, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | |||
| 1. Informal Cross Border Trade in Africa: Implications and Policy Recommendations Jean-Guy Africa, Senior Trade Policy Analyst, African Development Bank | |||
| 2. Informality, Regional Integration and Smuggling in West Africa Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, Cheikh Anta Diop University Nancy Benjamin, Senior Economist, World Bank Stephen Golub, Professor, Economics, Swarthmore College | |||
| 3. Can Mirror Data Help to Capture Informal International Trade? Christopher Grigoriou, Senior Economist, Government Security Solution, SICPA, Invited Professor of Econometrics, HEC Lausanne and Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration | |||
| 4. Working with the Grain of Informality in Fragile States: Development, Patrimonialism or Privatisation of Privilege? Rens Twijnstra, PhD Candidate, Wageningen UR, Social Science Group | |||
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Coffee - break | |||
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Keynote Address Keith Hart, Co-director, Human Economy Research Programme, University of Pretoria, Centennial Professor, Economic Anthropology, London School of Economics | |||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Panel 2. Regional Dimension: Africa. Moderator: Coffet Lebepe, Customs and Tax attaché in the Belgium, Luxemburg and the Mission to the European Union , South African Revenue Service | Panel 3. Regional Dimension: Asia Asha Menon, Technical Officer, Compliance and Facilitation Directorate, World Customs Organization | ||
| 1. Tantalum Trade in the Central African Great Lakes Area: a Neoliberal Paradise Paradigm? Thierry De Putter, Geologist, Geodynamics and Mineral Resources, Royal Museum for Central Africa | 1. Revealing Informal-Formal Trade by the Mirror Trade Statistics Comparison: The Case of Lao PDR and Cambodia Shintaro Hamanaka, Economist, Office of the Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank | ||
| 2. An assessment of Women Informal Cross Border Traders in East African Community – A Case of Uganda Charles Mbiine Nuwagaba, Director, Business Operations, ESA Business Consulting Ltd. | 2. Informality in Handling of Readymade Garment Cluster by Customs in Nepal Mallika Shakya, Assistant Professor, South Asian University | ||
| 3. Under-appreciated international trade in the Horn of Africa: The case of informal cross-border trade in livestock Peter Little, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Director, Development Studies Programme, Emory University | 3. A Case Study on Shuttle Trade Between Korea and China Yeonho Kang, Director, Korea Customs Service Chang-Ryung Han, Technical Officer, World Customs Organization | ||
| 4. The Nature of Informal Cross-Border Trade in Uganda, Its Justifications, Effects and How Customs Administration Handles It Georges Muwulya, Customs Audit Officer, Customs Audit Division, Uganda Revenue Authority | 4. Informal Trade Practices and Formalisation of International Trade and Customs Affairs Ghous Bux Sahqani, Customs Officer, Customs House, Karachi, Pakistan | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Coffee - break | |||
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Panel 4. Regional Dimension: Americas. Moderator: David Dolan, Customs Attaché (Brussels), US Customs and Border Protection | Panel 5. Informality: Taxes, Smuggling and Money. Moderator: Mariya Polner, Research Analyst, Research and Strategies Unit, World Customs Organization | ||
| 1. Repression Policies and the Territorialisation of Traditional and Emerging Modes of Smuggling on the Border of Brazil-Uruguay Adriana Dorfman, Professor, Geography Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | 1. Informal Cross-Border Trade and Informal Taxation in Sierra Leone: Bargaining, Conflict and Politics Vanessa van den Boogaard, Research Officer, International Center for Tax and Development Wilson Prichard, Joint Research Director, International Center for Tax and Development, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto | ||
| 2. Fifteen Dimensions of the Informality in the Brazilian Foreign Trade Cristiano Morini, Professor, State University of Campinas | 2. The Impact of Informal Trade Actors and Practices on Customs Risk Management in the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States Anthony Cambas, Director, Center for International Trade and Development, Oklahoma State University Assoumane Maiga, Doctoral Student, Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership, Oklahoma State University | ||
| 3. Trade Relations Between Dominican Republic and Haiti and Their Customs Regulation Miguel Barberó, International Trade and Foreign Relations Specialist, General Directorate of Customs, Dominican Republic | 3. Guns, Smoke and Mirrors Aida Hozic, Associate Professor, International Relations, University of Florida | ||
| 4. Import Value De-Minimis Level in Selected Economies as Cause of Undervaluation of Imported Goods Steven Pope, European Head, Customs and Regulatory Affairs, DHL Express, EU HQ Cezary Sowinsky, Customs and Regulatory Affairs Manager, DHL Express Ives Taelman, Senior Director of Customs and Regulatory Affairs , DHL Express | |||
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Cocktail offered by the WCO | |||
| Tuesday, 4 June | ||||
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Panel 6. Informality and Long Distance Travel. Moderator: Keith Hart, Co-director, Human Economy Research Programme, University of Pretoria, Centennial Professor, Economic Anthropology, London School of Economics | |||
| 1. Representations, Official and Unofficial Practices of Border Administrations Related to What They Call 'Informal': a Case Study Inspired by Cameroon Customs Samson Bilangna, Technical Officer, World Customs Organization Louis Pagou, Customs Officer, Risk Management Team, Cameroon Customs | |||
| 2. Informality, Transnational Trade and Customs in a Stateless Democratic Republic of Congo Patience Kabamba, Assistant Professor, International Studies, Marymount Manhattan College | |||
| 3. Taking Copies From China Past Customs: Routines, Risks, and the Possibility of Catastrophe Gordon Mathews, Professor, Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |||
| 4. From "Eutt" to Asia (Dubai, China and India): Trajectories of Senegalese Women Attacking International Trade Mohamadou Sall, Professor, Population Studies, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar | |||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee - break | |||
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Panel 7. Informality, Illegality and Legitimacy. Moderator: Cristiana Panella, Senior Researcher, Department of Cultural Anthropology and History, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium | |||
| 1. Reconsidering Clandestine Economies: Changing Perspectives on African Cross-Border Trade Kate Meagher, Lecturer, Department of International Development, London School of Economics | |||
| 2. Customs Control Over Illicit International Trade. The Impact of Different Forms of Illegality Alan Smart, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary | |||
| 3. Informal Cross-Border Trade in Southern Mozambique (Mukhero) Albert Farre Ventura, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Economy Programme, Humanities Faculty, University of Pretoria | |||
| 4. Informality and Smuggling: Asian Textile Imports from Brazzavile to Kinshasa Sylvie Ayimpam, Associate Researcher, CEMAF | |||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Panel 8. Informality, Illegality and Legitimacy (cont'd). Moderator: Mick Moore, CEO, International Centre for Tax and Development, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies | |||
| 1. Hong Kong as an Entrepot of Illicit and Informal Trades: a Case Study of the Parallel Trade in Baby Formula Since 2008 Josephine Smart, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary | |||
| 2. "Pèpè" vs the State: Circulation and Commercialisation Negotiations of Second-Hand Textile at the Dominican-Haitian Border Catherine Bourgeois, PhD student, Anthropology, Laboratory of Modern World Anthropology, ULB | |||
| 3. Informality, International Trade and Customs: the Official Practices of the Revenue Authority in Relation With What Zimbabwe Calls "Informal" John Chakasikwa, Research and Development Manager, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority | |||
| 4. One Smuggler Can Hide Another: Israel and West Bank (2007-2010) Cedric Parizot, Researcher, CNRS, IREMAM | |||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Coffee - break | |||
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Panel 9. Informality: Norms and Practices. Moderator: Gaël Raballand, Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank | |||
| 1. Where Informal Procedures Become Formal – Cross-Border Trade Between West and Central Africa Mombert Hoppe, Trade Economist for Southern Africa, World Bank | |||
| 2. Customs Reforms in the Eastern Congo: Between Norms and Practices Omer Mirembe, Researcher, University of Antwerp | |||
| 3. Informal Taxes, Informal Trade and Customs Points in the Great Lakes Region Kristof Titeca, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, University of Gent | |||
| 4. Global Circulations and Commodity Chains: CDs and Digital Piracy in Latin America Jose Carlos Aguiar, Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American Studies, Leiden University | |||
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Closing Session. Moderator: Christine Msemburi, Head, WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building, East and Southern Africa Region Keith Hart, Co-director, Human Economy Research Programme, University of Pretoria, Centennial Professor, Economic Anthropology, London School of Economics Thomas Cantens, WCO Research and Strategies Unit and Centre Norbert Elias, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Peter Little, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Director, Development Studies Programme, Emory University Mick Moore, CEO, International Centre for Tax and Development, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies | |||
