International Development Conference » Arvind http://www.idc2006.org Fulfilling the Development Promise: Transforming Ideas into Actions. IDC - International Development Conference. Sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Track IV: Trade for Development http://www.idc2006.org/trackIV.htm http://www.idc2006.org/trackIV.htm#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:34:30 +0000 admin http://www.idc2006.org/?p=58 Panel I: Accommodating Developing Countries’ Concerns
Recent trends in trade arrangements have a tendency to curtail the policy options that developing countries can tailor to achieve their objectives of growth, economic development, and social welfare. At the same time, in the past decades we have seen that countries that have achieved high levels of growth and poverty reduction have benefited from a combination of orthodox and heterodox policies, which invariably include integration objectives.

The follow-up question is, what can developing countries do to combine their objectives of integrating into the world trading system, on the one hand, while preserving the policy space they need for economic development, on the other. This panel will identify the needs for policy space that developing countries should defend and safeguard in world trade. In particular, the discussion will be geared towards brainstorming and developing concrete flexibilities that can be engineered into trade agreements to make policy space actionable and effective. These issues will be addressed from the multilateral, regional, and bilateral negotiating scenarios.

PANELISTS
  • Pablo de la Flor, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade, Peru
  • Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, International and Public Affairs and Economics, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University
  • Kevin Gallagher, Senior Researcher, Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE),Tufts University; Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University
  • Sherry Stephenson, Organization of American States, Trade Specialist
MODERATOR
  • Craig VanGrasstek, Executive Director, Program on Trade and Negotiations, John F. Kennedy School of Government
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