Track IV: Trade for Development
January 29, 2006 by admin
| Panel I: Accommodating Developing Countries’ Concerns |
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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. |
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| Track V: Bottom Up Planning |
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