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Bangkok, Thailand |
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Trade
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WTO/ESCAP Third ARTNeT Capacity Building
Workshop on Trade Research
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26-30 March 2007 |
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Bangkok, Thailand |
Organizers
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UNESCAP Trade
and Investment Division
World Trade Organization |
Objective
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To develop participants capacity
to conduct research on WTO-related
and other trade policy and facilitation
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Documentation
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Opening Remarks
 Mr. Xuan Zengpei, Director, Trade and Investment Division,
UNESCAP
Day 1: Advances in Trade Theory and Trade Research Updates
Session 1: Advances in Trade Theory and Policy Research
Implications
- Advances in Trade Theory and Policy Implications (1)
- Advances in Trade Theory and Policy Implications (2)
Patrick Low, Director, Economic Research and Statistics,
WTO
Session 2: Six decades of multilateralism: what have we learned?
Patrick Low, Economic Research and Statistics, WTO
Session 3: New age regionalism and the evolving trade architecture:
A policy perspective
Tiziana Bonapace, Chief, Trade Policy Section, Trade
and Investment Division (TID), UNESCAP
Session 4: Research update on regional trade arrangements and
emerging issues
Mia Mikic, Economic Affairs Officer, TID, UNESCAP
Day 2: Trade Research Update
Session 1: Trade Facilitation: Recent Research and Emerging Issues
Yann Duval, Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP
Session 2: Trade, Poverty and Income Distribution: What Have We
Learned?
Patrick Low, Economic Research and Statistics, WTO
Session 3: Presentation of selected papers by participants from the
region for detailed discussion
- Importance of Trade Costs: The Importance of Trade
Costs: A Gravity Model Application A Gravity Model
Application
- Online demonstration
Prabir De, RIS, India
Who Are Opposed to Free Trade in the Philippines?
An Ordered Logit Estimation of Survey Data
Christine Mendoza Liao, PIDS, Philippines
Session 4: Introduction to CGE and GTAP (www.gtap.org)
Allan Rae, Professor and GTAP Research Fellow,
Massey University, New Zealand
Day 3: CGE Modelling and Applications
Session 1: Introduction to Run GTAP: examining some data
Session 2: Household behavior
Session 3: Producer behaviour and technical change
Day 4: CGE Modelling and Applications
Session 1: International trade
Session 2: Taxes and subsidies
Session 3: Setting up a simulation
Session 4: Running the simulation
Day 5: CGE Modelling and Applications
Session 1: Welfare Decomposition
Session 2: Running a more complex experiment
Session 3: - Swapping variables in the closure
- Some concluding remarks
Allan Rae, Massey University, New Zealand
Session 4: Construction of GTAP Compatible Input Output (I/O)
Table and Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) with Limited
Data Base : Nepalese Experience
Dilli Raj Khanal, Chairman, IPRAD, Nepal
Analysis of the Potential Impact of the AFTA on Lao
Economy - Macroeconomic Model Approach
Phouphet Kyophilavong National University of Lao,
Lao PDR
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Participants
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Programme
Information note for participants
List of participants |
Contact
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Mr. Yann Duval
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: [email protected] |
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Last updated: 10 April 2007 |
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