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Asia-Pacific Trade Economists’ Conference
Trade-Led Growth in Times of Crisis |
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Monday, 2
November 2009 |
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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? |
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Parallel Session
Room B
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Parallel Session
Room C
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Parallel Session
Room D
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Parallel Session
Room E
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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) |
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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
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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 |
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Ayoko
Obashi
Resiliency of
Production Networks in Asia: Evidence from the Asian Crisis
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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 |
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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
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Gouranga Das
Role of Agricultural Biotechnology and
Induced Productivity in Tackling Food and Fuel Trade-offs: A Tale of Twin
Crisis
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Mochamad Pasha
Regional aspects of linkages between international production networks and
regional trade agreements |
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Phouphet Kyophilavong
Will Trade Liberalization Help During
the Crisis in LDCs? - Evidence from Laos
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Session 4: Trade Governance:
is the WTO a sustainable model for the future?
(Chain: Debapriya Bhattacharya)
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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
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Rudolf
Adlung
Services Liberalization from a WTO/GATS
Perspective: In Search of Volunteers |
Robert
Scollay
The WTO in the "Spaghetti Bowl" World
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Deshal
de Mel
The Role of Stakeholders in the
formulation of inclusive trade policies: What went wrong with the Indo-Lanka
CEPA negotiations
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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
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George
Manzano and Myrene Beda?o
Revisiting
Sectoral Liberalization: An Alternative to the FTAAP? Implications on the
Philippines |
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Suparna
Karmakar
A Pan-Asian Services Market: An Idea
Whose Time has Come?
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Tuesday, 3
November 2009 |
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High-level plenary session 2: The
crisis: a catalyst for more coherent trade policies and inclusive growth?
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13.00 - 15.00 |
Parallel Session
Room B
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Parallel Session
Room C
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Parallel Session
Room D
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Parallel Session
Room E
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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) |
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Rajinder Kumar
Rules of Origin as an Instrument of
Trade Protection: An Analysis of Theory, Empirical Evidence and Current
State of Play
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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 |
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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
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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
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Nilanjan Banik
Trade and Social Development: The case
of Asia
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Parakrama Samaratunga
Sri Lanka: Adapting Trade Policies to
Promote Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
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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)
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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:
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India Case Study: Indira Hirway (Consultant UNDP India and Director,
Centre for Development Alternatives)
- Cambodia Case Study: Lim Sovannara, National Economist, UNDP
Cambodia
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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 |
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Sumali
Dissanayake and Jeevika Weerahewa
Trade Creation and Trade Diversion
Effects of Agricultural Trade
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Clovis Freire and Mia Mikic
Factors
Contributing to Export Performance in the Aftermath of Global Economic
Crisis |
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Oliver Cadot, Bolormaa
Tumurchudur and Miho Shirotori
Revealed
Factor Intensity Index – at the Product Level |
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