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Cancun Trade and Development Symposium
Simposio
sobre Comercio y Desarrollo, Cancún
Symposium sur le Commerce et le Développement, Cancun
Session 2.2
Free Trade, Development and Sustainability: Lessons
from Mexico
11 September
2003, 14:30-18:30,
Murillo Room
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Synopsis
There
is vigorous debate and a burgeoning literature concerning the relationship
between free trade, development and indicators of social progress
and environmental quality – between international and national
trade regimes – between policy and action. In many ways, the
debate and literature have turned traditional analysis on its head.
Rather than confronting the development problem and searching for
the elusive determinants of sustainability, the discussion has focused
on the World Trade Organisation, the North American Free Trade Agreement
and the international trade regime as the problem, inhibiting (even
destroying) the prospects for sustainability. In response, the analysis
has become more opaque, the debate more polemic. And frustration remains
about the lack of progress or breakthrough findings.
In
this context, it is interesting to consider the case of Mexico. More
than a decade ago, the Mexican government launched a process of structural
reforms and trade liberalization with a view to spurring development.
As part of that process, Mexico became a strong proponent of NAFTA
– even in the face of concerns about its consequences for the
poor (particularly the rural poor) and environment. With ten years
experience, and a rich analytic and real world experience, it is timely
to draw on the lessons from Mexico to a consideration of the future
for trade, trade liberalization, development and sustainability.
Against
this background, the World Wildlife Fund’s Macroeconomic Programme,
in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund/Mexico, the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
of North America and the Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University (GDAE) will sponsor a workshop exploring a retrospective
look at Mexico’s ten year record with economic integration and
prospective discussion of lessons for the WTO and international trade
regime.
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Introduction
Omar
Vidal (World Wildlife Fund/Mexico)
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| 14:45
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Economic Integration – the Case of Mexico |
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• Moderator:
John Audley (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Unfulfilled
Promises: NAFTA’s Economic Track Record, Alberto Arroyo
(Mexico’s Autonomous Metropolitan University)
The Perils
of Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: The Case of Mexico, Manuel
Angel Gomez Cruz and Rita Schwentesius (Centro de
Investigaciones Economicas, Sociales y Tecnologicas de la Agroindustria
y Agricultura Mundial)
Foreign
Investment and the Environment: Examining the Evidence, Kevin
P. Gallagher (Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University)
Free Trade
and the Environment: The Picture Becomes Clearer, Chantal
Line Carpentier (Commission for Environmental Cooperation
of North America)
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| 16:40
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Making
Progress – Lessons from Mexico |
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• Moderator:
Ambassador Werner Corrales-Leal (ICTSD)
Getting
Real About Trade and Development: About Real People in Real
Places, David Reed (WWF’s Macroeconomics for Sustainable
Development Program Office)
Rethinking
Rural Development: New Agricultural Policies for Mexico, Victor
Suarez (Mexican Congress)
Lessons
for the WTO: A Civil Society Perspective, Hilda Salazar
(Coordinating Commission of Mexican Free Trade Action Network)
and Tim Wise (Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University)
Getting
What You Want Out of Trade: The Political Economy of Trade Policy,
Craig VanGrasstek (Harvard University)
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Speakers Bios
Omar
Vidal is the Director and country representative of World Wildlife
Fund, Mexico.
John
Audley is the Director of the Trade, Equity and Development
Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington,
D.C.
Alberto
Arroyo is a Professor of Economics, Mexico’s Autonomous
Metropolitan University and member of the Mexican Free Trade Action
Network (RMALC) and the Hemispheric Social Alliance.
Manuel Angel Gomez Cruz is a Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones
Economicas, Sociales y Tecnologicas de la Agroindustria y Agricultura
Mundial (CIESTAAM).
Kevin
P. Gallagher is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Global
Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University.
Chantal
Line Carpentier is the Head of the Environment, Economy and
Trade Program, Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North
America, Montreal.
Werner
Corrales-Leal is a Senior Fellow of ICTSD and former Minister
of Development and Ambassador to the WTO for Venezuela.
David
Reed is the Director of Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development,
Program Office, WWF, Washington, D.C.
Rita
Schwentesius, is a Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones
Economicas, Sociales y Tecnologicas de la Agroindustria y Agricultura
Mundial (CIESTAAM).
Victor
Suarez is a member of the Mexican Congress. He was one of the
leaders of ANEC and the revujenated farmers’ movement in Mexico,
“El Campo no Aguanta Mas,” which recently won some concessions
from the Mexican government on farm policy and NAFTA.
Hilda
Salazar is a member of the Coordinating Commission of Mexican
Free Trade Action Network.
Tim Wise is a Researcher at the Global Development and Environment
Institute of Tufts University.
Craig
VanGrasstek is the Executive Director of the Program on Trade
and Negotiations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University.
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World Wildlife Fund
Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme
The World
Wildlife Fund established the Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development
Program Office (MPO) to explore the linkages between macroeconomics
and the environment. Having contributed to the conceptual foundations
of sustainable development, WWF deepened its commitment to engage
in policy reform by organising the WWF MPO in 1991.
Session organised
by the World Wildlife Fund’s Macroeconomics for Sustainable
Development Program Office (MPO), in cooperation with WWF/Mexico,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), North
American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and
the Global Environment and Development Institute (GDAE), Tufts
University.
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