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Expert Group
Meeting on the Role of Trade and Investment
Policies in Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
Date
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26-27 October 2004 |
Venue
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Bangkok, Thailand |
Organizer
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UNESCAP Trade and Investment Division
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Objective
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To consider trade and investments aspects of the Monterrey Consensus and their interlinkages to financing for development. It will consider trade and investment policy reforms in the context of the Doha negotiations and the recent surge in BTAs, and their contribution to the regional implementation of the Monterrey consensus on Financing for Development. |
Documentation
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Aide-memoire
Tentative programme
Background papers:
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2 - Main linkages between trade, investment,
ODA and
financing
for development
Financing development in the Asian and Pacific region:
trends and linkages
Ramkishen
Rajan, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics,
University
of Adelaide, Australia
Session
3 - Improving market access under the Doha
Development Agenda and regional (including
bilateral) trading
agreements as a major
source of financing for development
in Asia
and the Pacific
Improving market access under the Doha development agenda
and regional trading agreements as a major source of financing
for development in Asia and the Pacific
Bisweswar Bhattacharyya, Distinguished Professor, Institute
for Integrated Learning in Management and Honorary Dean,
International Trade and Law Institute, New Delhi
Session
4 - Special problems of finanching for development in
commodity-dependent LDCs
Special problems of financing for development
in Asian and
Pacific LDCs
Pierre
Sauvé, Visiting Professor, Institut
d'Etudes Politiques
de Paris, France
Session
5 - MFA phase-out and implications for the contribution
of textile and clothing sector to external financing for
development in Asia and the Pacific
The prospects for clothing and textile exports of the Asian
and Pacific economics in the post-quota era and implications
for external financing for development
William E. James, Trade Economist, Growth through
Investment, Agriculture and Trade, Indonesia
United Nations reference papers:
Follow-up
to and implementation of the outcome of
the
International
Conference on Financing for Development
- Report of the Secretary-General (A/59/270)
Innovative
sources of financing for development
- Note by the Secretary-General (A/59/272)
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Participants
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Administrative note for self-financed participants
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Contact
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Mr. Matthias Bruckner
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: brucknerm@un.org |
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Last updated: 19 October 2004 |
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