The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is organising Training of Trainers on “Enhancing Capacity on Trade Policies and Negotiations in Lao PDR: Analytical approaches to evaluating preferential trade agreements with applications” from 8 to 10 May 2017, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
The training will focus on analytical tools required for evidence based policy making or formulating negotiating position.
Presentations
- 1. Setting the agenda, by John Gilbert
- 2. Theoretical Framework, by John Gilbert
- 3. Obtaining Trade Data, by John Gilbert
- 4. Introduction to General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS), by John Gilbert
- 5. Overall Measures of Integration, by John Gilbert
- 6. Sectoral Indicators, by John Gilbert
- 7. Decomposition of Values, by John Gilbert
- 8. Decomposition of Shares, by John Gilbert
- 9. A Basic Partial Equilibrium Model, by John Gilbert
- 10. Differentiation by Source, by John Gilbert
- 11. Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), by John Gilbert
- 12. A Basic CGE model for Lao PDR, by John Gilbert
- 13. Working with the model, by John gilbert
- 14. Parting Advice, by John Gilbert