Cancun Trade and Development Symposium
Simposio
sobre Comercio y Desarrollo, Cancún
Symposium sur le Commerce et le Développement, Cancun
Session 1.2
TOWARDS A PRO-POOR
AGENDA FOR THE DOHA ROUND:
The role of
rich countries and international donors
11 September 2003,
9:30-13:30, Murillo
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Can the Doha Agenda
contribute to reducing global poverty? What are the special responsibilities
of rich countries and international donors? As a part of this symposium
the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the International Trade Department
of the World Bank are organising a two-part session to address ways the
Doha Agenda could help create a more development-friendly and equitable
world trading system. The first panel will take a big picture look at
the inequities of the global trading system, and reforms necessary to
promote a pro-poor outcome that will help attain the Millennium Development
Goals for poverty reduction, with special attention to the responsibilities
of rich countries. For this discussion, Patrick Messerlin, Co-ordinator
of the Millennium Project Taskforce on Trade (with Ernesto Zedillo, former
President of Mexico) will present the Taskforce’s Pre-Cancun report.
Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development, will highlight
the importance of policy coherence on the part of rich countries —
aligning trade with other national policies to best support economic and
social development abroad. Two distinguished policy makers, Mari Pangestu
and Herminio Blanco, have been invited to comment on how the global trading
system and rich country policies affect their regions.
Getting market access
is a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure that developing
countries can export and that the poor benefit. The second panel will
take up the issue of “aid for trade”, capacity building, and
the role of donors and international agencies in providing technical advice
and resources to help development. Four speakers will take up these complex
issues. Uri Dadush, Director of the International Trade Department, will
speak on the importance of trade facilitation and other lending to promote
a supply response to new markets and to facilitate adjustment. Guillermo
Perry, Chief Economist for the Latin American Region, will discuss trade
policy in Latin America and its consequences for growth and poverty reduction.
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Eveline
Herfkins is the Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator
for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign. She was the Netherlands
Minister for Development Cooperation from 1998-2002. Ms. Herfkens
has also served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and
permanent representative of the Netherlands at the UN in Geneva. From
1990 to 1996, she was the Executive Director of the World Bank. Ms.
Herfkens was a member of the Lower House of Parliament from 1981-1990.
Patrick
Messerlin is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Groupe
d’Economie Mondiale (GEM) at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
in Paris. He is a specialist in international trade with a research
focus on the WTO, EU trade policy, liberalization in services, and
regulatory reforms in France as well as in the EU with a particular
focus on protectionism.
Nancy
Birdsall is the founding President of the Center for Global Development.
Prior to launching the center, Birdsall served for three years as
Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused
on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform
of the international financial institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall
was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank,
where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio.
Mari
Pangestu is the former Executive Director of the Center for International
and Strategic Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Herminio
Blanco is the Former Minister of Trade and Industrial Development,
Mexico.
Uri
Dadush is the Director of the International Trade Department for
the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1992 and for five years
was Division Chief for international economic analysis and prospects.
Prior to that he was the President and CEO of the Economist Intelligence
Unit and Business International in London and New York.
Jorge
Quiroga Ramírez is former President and Vice President
of Bolivia. He was the leader of the election campaign in 1993 for
Acción Democrática Nacionalista. He also served
as Under-secretary for Public Investment and International Cooperation
in the Ministry for Planning, Finance Minister, an alternate Governor
to the World Bank, Fonplata, Financial Cooperation of Investments,
head of the Andine Corporation of Development, a National Secretary
on Social Policy and main negotiator for the reduction of external
bilateral debt with the U.S.
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Center for Global Development
The Center
for Global Development is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit
think tank dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality
through policy oriented research and active engagement on development
issues with the policy community and the public. A principal focus
of the Center’s work is the policies of the United States
and other industrial countries that affect development prospects
in poor countries.
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The World Bank
The World
Bank is the name that has come to be used for the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International
Development Association(IDA). Together these organisations provide
low-interest loans, interest-free credit, and grants to developing
countries. The World Bank is one of the United Nations’ specialized
agencies, and is made up of 184 member countries. Some 10,000
development professionals from nearly every country in the world
work in the World Bank’s Washington DC headquarters or in
its 109 country offices.
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