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ESCAP/WTO ARTNeT Capacity Building Workshop for Trade Research
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22-26 Jun 2009 |
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Bangkok, Thailand |
Organizers
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UNESCAP Trade
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World Trade Organization |
Objective
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The workshop's objectives are (1) to address certain challenges faced by trade researchers such as data availability, setting appropriate research tasks, selecting suitable analytical methods and presenting results in a way that makes them accessible to non-experts and (2) to discuss these challenges with particular reference to research topics within the broad areas of “Climate change and trade”, “International cooperation in services” and “Trade finance”. |
Documentation
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Presentations:
Monday, 22 June 2009
 The Rationale for International Trade Cooperation
Patrick Low, Director of Economic Research and
Statistics, World Trade Organization (WTO)
The GATT-WTO System: How it Works and The
Challenges of Doha
Patrick Low
Regional Integration in Asian Perspective
Mia Mikic, Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Trade Facilitation: WTO Negotiations and Beyond
Yann Duval, Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Climate Change and Trade: The Challenges of
International Cooperation
Patrick Low
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Touching the Intangible: A Conceptual Framework for
Trade in Services
Nadia Rocha, Economic Research and Statistics
Division
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Empirical and Theoretical Research on Trade in Services
Nadia Rocha
Friday, 26 June 2009
Will Stimulus Spending Stifle Recovery?
James W. Dean, Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paradoxes of the Global Financial Meltdown
James W. Dean
Thoughts about the Financial Crisis
Edward Tower, Professor of Economics,
Duke University
Empirical Studies on Trade Finance in the context of
global financial crisis
Wei Liu, UNESCAP
Trade Finance: An Introduction
Yann Duval, UNESCAP
International Development Research Centre
Evan Due, International Development Research Centre
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Participants
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Programme
List of participants
Information note for participants |
Contact
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Ms. Mia Mikic
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: [email protected]
Ms. Melanie Ramjoué
Associate Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Policy Section
Trade and Investment Division, UNESCAP
Email: [email protected] |
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Last updated: 29 June 2009 |
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