Asia-Pacific Trade Economists’ Conference
Trade-Led Growth in Times of Crisis

Monday, 2 November 2009

  High-level plenary session 1: Taking Stock of the Global Crisis: Does the Asia-Pacific Region Need a New Approach to Trade and Development?

Alan V. Deardorff
Do We Need a “New Approach” to Trade?
 

 

Parallel Session
Room B
 

Parallel Session
Room C
 

Parallel Session
Room D
 

Parallel Session
Room E
 

Session 1:  Trade-led recovery and production networks

(Chair: Fukunari Kimura)
Session 2: Anti-protectionism? The rise of minilaterialism and the expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

(Organizer and Chair:  Deborah K. Elms)
Session 3: Advances in use of CGE analysis for trade policymaking

(Chair: Kym Anderson)
 
Tereso S. Tullao, Jr., Mitzie Irene P. Conchada, and John Paolo R. Rivera

The Role of Global Production Networks (GPN) in Understanding the Impacts of the Fiscal Stimulus in the United States and China on ASEAN Economies
 
John Ravenhill

Extending the TPP: The Political Economy of Multilateralization in Asia
John Gilbert

Multilateral Trade Reforms Under Doha and Income Distribution in South Asia
 
Ayoko Obashi

Resiliency of Production Networks in Asia: Evidence from the Asian Crisis
 
Ann Capling

Multilateralising PTAs in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparison of the ASEAN-Australia-NZ FTA and the P4 Agreement
Anna Strutt and Terrie Walmsley

Trade and Sectoral Impacts of the Financial Crisis: A Dynamic CGE Analysis
 
Lurong Chen and Philippe De Lombaerde

The US crisis and the future of East Asian production sharing
Deborah K. Elms

From the P4 to the TPP: Explaining Expansion Interests in the Asia–Pacific

 
Gouranga Das

Role of Agricultural Biotechnology and Induced Productivity in Tackling Food and Fuel Trade-offs: A Tale of Twin Crisis

 
 
Mochamad Pasha

Regional aspects of linkages between international production networks and
regional trade agreements
  Phouphet Kyophilavong

Will Trade Liberalization Help During the Crisis in LDCs? -  Evidence from Laos

 
 

 
     
   
  Session 4: Trade Governance: is the WTO a sustainable model for the future?

(Chain: Debapriya Bhattacharya)
 
Session 5: Design of inclusive trade policies

(Chair: Douglas Brooks)
Session 6: Enabling Trade: Evidence from Modelling Exercises

(Chair: Florian Alburo)
Session 7: Trade liberalization in services: sectoral and country studies

(Chair: Alan Deardorff)
K.C. Fung, Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Alan Siu

Developing Countries and the World Trade Organization: A Foreign Influence Approach
Larry Strange

Stakeholder Consultation and Engagement in a GMS Transport and Trade Facilitation Initiative: An ARTNeT Case Study
Ben Shepherd

More Speed, Less “Speed Money”: Asia-Pacific Firm-Level Evidence On Border Crossing Times As Corruption Incentives

 
Rudolf Adlung

Services Liberalization from a WTO/GATS Perspective: In Search of Volunteers
Robert Scollay

The WTO in the "Spaghetti Bowl" World

 
Deshal de Mel

The Role of Stakeholders in the formulation of inclusive trade policies: What went wrong with the Indo-Lanka CEPA negotiations
 
Prabir De

Does Governance Matter for Enhancing Trade? Empirical Evidence from Asia
Pralok Gupta and Rupa Chanda

Trade Liberalization in Producer Services: Case Study of India
Pahan Prasada

What Type of Institutions Matter More to World Trade - National or Supranational? A Comparative Gravity Analysis Controlling for Institutional and Governance Environment

 
George Manzano and Myrene Beda?o

Revisiting Sectoral Liberalization: An Alternative to the FTAAP? Implications on the Philippines
  Suparna Karmakar

A Pan-Asian Services Market: An Idea Whose Time has Come?
 

 
     
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
  High-level plenary session 2: The crisis: a catalyst for more coherent trade policies and inclusive growth?
 

 

 

 

13.00 - 15.00

Parallel Session
Room B
 

Parallel Session
Room C
 

Parallel Session
Room D
 

Parallel Session
Room E
 

Session 8: Trade facilitation

(Chair:
Evan Due)
Session 9: Adapting trade policies to promote food security and sustainable agriculture

(Organizer and Chair: Ramesh Sharma, FAO)
Session 10: Trade and Development: Case Studies

(Chair: Manickam Supperamaniam)
 
Rajinder Kumar

Rules of Origin as an Instrument of Trade Protection: An Analysis of Theory, Empirical Evidence and Current State of Play

 
Ramesh Sharma and Jamie Morrison

Trade Policy for Agricultural Development and Food Security: Reflections from Asia
Deepika Wadhwa

Assessing the Potential for Growth of Intra-Regional Trade in South Asia
 
Tulus Tambunan

Facilitating Small and Medium Enterprises in International Trade (Export): The Case of Indonesia

Uttam Deb

Cash Incentives for Export: Impact on Farm Level Income and Employment in Bangladesh
Philippe De Lombaerde and Lurong Chen

Inclusive Regional Trade and Integration Policies and the Role of Monitoring Systems: Asia-Pacific in a Comparative Perspective
 


 
Volker Nitsch and Nikolaus Wolf

Tear Down this Wall:On the Persistence of Borders in Trade

Posh Raj Pandey

Trade Policy as an Instrument to Ensure Food Security: A Case of Nepal
 

Nilanjan Banik

Trade and Social Development: The case of Asia

 

 



 

Parakrama Samaratunga

Sri Lanka: Adapting Trade Policies to Promote Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
 
   
   
Session 11: Gravity modelling and trade facilitation in South Asia

(Organizer : Univeristy of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Chair: Ben Shepherd)
Session 12: Dynamic and new sectors of developing countries

(Organizer : UNCTAD

Chair: Patrick Messerlin)
Session 13: Assessing the human development impact of the economic crisis: Strategies and policy responses in the Asia Pacific region

(Organizer: UNDP RCC

Chair:
Biswajit Dhar)
 
 
Aloka Bellanawithana, Bimali Wijerathne and Jeevika Weerahewa

Impacts of Non Tariff Measures (NTMs) on Agricultural Exports: A Gravity Modeling Approach
Alessandro Nicita and Bolormaa Tumurchudur-Klok

New and Traditional Trade Flows and the Economic Crisis
Panelists:
- India Case Study: Indira Hirway (Consultant UNDP India and Director, Centre for Development Alternatives)
- Cambodia Case Study: Lim Sovannara, National Economist, UNDP Cambodia
 
Pahan Prasada

Revisiting Trade-Institutions Nexus: A comparative analysis of South Asian and global Commodity Trade controlling for institutional homogeneity and migration
Abhijit Das, Rashmi Banga and Dinesh Kumar

Global Economic Crisis: Implications and Restructuring of Services Sector in India

 
Sumali Dissanayake and Jeevika Weerahewa

Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Effects of Agricultural Trade
 

Clovis Freire and Mia Mikic

Factors Contributing to Export Performance in the Aftermath of Global Economic Crisis
   

 
Oliver Cadot, Bolormaa Tumurchudur and Miho Shirotori

Revealed Factor Intensity Index – at the Product Level