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Cancun Trade and Development Symposium
Simposio
sobre Comercio y Desarrollo, Cancún
Symposium sur le Commerce et le Développement, Cancun
Session 3.2
Rules
and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Latin America (I)
12 September 2003, 9:00-13:00, Murillo
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Synopsis
This
session on Rules and Institutions for Sustainable Development in Latin
America is co-organised by the Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean and the Latin American Trade Network. This is the
first of two sessions that will explore:
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Broader theoretical
questions on the relations between trade, sustainable development,
growth, and reduced external vulnerability of Latin America and
the Caribbean, and the role of the new global rules at the WTO;
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Reciprocity
and preferential treatment; differential costs to enterprises
and countries at various economic and institutional development
levels;
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Sustainable
development, and the opposing rights of nations and private investors;
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Institutional
design and WTO Management: Recent strategies employed by Latin American
countries;
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WTO
Management: WTO responses to developing countries, particularly in
the preparation for Cancun.
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Agenda
| 9:00 |
Welcoming
session (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
/ Latin American Trade Network)
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| 9:15 |
The
Changing Nature of World Trade and the New Rules for Market Access:
is Trade an Engine for Growth?
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Moderator:
To be confirmed.
Vivianne
Ventura Dias and Paolo Bifani (ECLAC)
Guillermo
Perry (LATN and World Bank)
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| 11:00 |
Does
Full Reciprocity Make Sense in the Presence of Economic, Social,
and Institutional Asymmetries? |
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Moderator:
To be confirmed
Jorge Máttar
(ECLAC) and Eduardo Gudynas (Centro Latino Americano de
Ecología Social)
Robert
Devlin (LATN and Interamerican Bank of Development)
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Speakers Bios
Vivianne
Ventura Dias is Director of the International Trade and Integration
Division of the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean.
She has a PhD in agriculture and resource economics from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Paolo
Bifani is an international consultant to several United Nations
agencies with expertise in international trade, environment, biotechnology
and biodiversity. He is the author of books and articles on trade
and environment, including the most recent “La Globalización:
¿Otra Caja de Pandora?”.
Guillermo
Perry is the Chief Economist of the Latin America and Caribbean
Region at the World Bank since 1996. He has also served in several
senior policy-making positions in his native country, Colombia, including
that of Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Minister of Mining
and Energy. He has published several books including the most recent
From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy Trade and Job Quality
(2001) co-authored with David de Ferranti et al.
Jorge
Máttar is the Deputy-director of the Subregional ECLAC
Office in Mexico, DF. He has a masters in Applied Economics from Cambridge
University.
Eduardo
Gudynas is Director of the Centro Latino Americano de Ecología
Social (Claes) and coordinator of the D3E Initiative (Development,
Ecology, Economy and Equity – Latin America). For more information
(http://www.ambiental.net).
Robert
Devlin is the Deputy Manager of the Integration and Regional Programs
Department, Interamerican Bank of Development. He has a Ph.D. in Economics
(American University, Washington D.C.) and is the author of a great
number of papers on Latin American trade and regional integration,
including Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in Latin America (2002),
co-authored with Antoni Estevadeordal et al. For more information
(http://www.iadb.org).
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ECLAC
- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
-the Spanish acronym is CEPAL- which is headquartered in Santiago,
Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations.
It was founded for the purposes of contributing to the economic
development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards
this end, and reinforcing economic relationships among the countries
and with the other nations of the world. The promotion of the
region’s social development was later included among its
primary objectives.
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LATN
– Latin American Trade Network began its activities in April
1998 with the support of the International Development Research
Centre (IDRC) from Canada. LATN is a network, with seat in FLACSO,
gathering scholars, academic institutions, international organisations
and public officials. Its main objectives are: to analyse the
ongoing changes in international trade relations in response to
the expansion of the trade agenda, the diversification of the
negotiation fora and the growth of new coalitions.
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Background Documents
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more information please contact tds@ictsd.ch.
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