The fifth discussion in the Reuters Forum series -- Emerging Economies: Is Economic Nationalism the Way for "The Rest"? -- will be held on Wednesday, April 4 at 6 p.m. at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Broadway and 116th Street. To register, call (212) 854-6840, or register online at http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/reuters/ - where the discussions will also be webcast.

Moderated by Dr. Alice Amsden, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Political Economy at MIT, the panel discussion will feature John Lipsky, chief economist of the new J.P. Morgan Investment Bank and the global head of the Bank's Economic and Policy Research Department; Guillermo Rozenwurcel, the former chief economic advisor to Argentina's Ministry of the Economy of the Nation; Karti Sandilya, secretariat officer of the Asian Development Bank; and David Schlesinger, executive vice president and editor, Americas, for Reuters.

Among the issues to be discussed are:

• Is economic nationalism dead?
• Does American market-opening policies kill off potential competitors or raise the level of income overall?
• Isn't it prudent for countries to be borrowers rather than innovators, as Japan is thought to have been throughout most of its modern history?
• Can the least developed countries ever hope to prosper without the strong assistance of foreign companies? Can other countries emulate the Singapore model?