Bali symposium to address key challenges in multilateral trade
Updated: Nov 25, 2013 04:23:24pm
New Delhi, Nov 25 (KNN) The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the Centre for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS) have organised the Bali Trade and Development Symposium to provide a forum for discussion among governmental and non-governmental stakeholders on issues of trade and sustainable development, with a view to identifying policy options to address key challenges facing the multilateral trade system.
To be held on the sidelines of the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference, the symposium will be held from December 3-5 in Bali, Indonesia.
Sessions, organised by a wide array of international organisations, will address the most pressing contemporary trade and sustainable development issues, which will be categorised under these three thematic streams, namely, environment and natural resources; international trade governance and sustainable development; and trade and economic development.
A special session titled ‘The Future of Aid for Trade at the WTO’ will be held on December-4 jointly organized by the South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
The objectives of the meeting are – to discuss the future of Aid for Trade at the WTO in a rapidly changing trade and finance landscape. It will specifically address how the Aid for Trade initiative can be reinvigorated so it responds to the changes in a manner that strengthens the WTO in years to come.
The session to be moderated by Dirk Willem te VELDE of the Investment and Growth Programme, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will also dwell on how aid for trade can continue to support LDCs and be an effective tool for developing value chains.
Other speakers include Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group-ODI, Yurendra BASNETT; Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework-World Trade Organization, Ratnakar ADHIKARI; Adviser & Head, International Trade and Regional Cooperation Section, Economic Affairs Division-Commonwealth Secretariat, UK Mohammed RAZZAQUE; Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group-Overseas Development Institute,
Jodie KEANE; and Head, Trade Policy Unit (Negotiations and Programmes) - Department for International Development/Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK
Eamon CASSIDY.
The event will convene top policy makers, thinkers and business leaders with a view to providing cutting edge analysis and creative solutions to move the sustainable development policy agenda forward.
Over the past decade, the Trade and Development Symposium has earned a reputation as the premier parallel event at WTO Ministerial Conferences. These symposia offer a valuable space for a wide range of stakeholders – from policymakers to business leaders to non-governmental organisations – to engage in substantive open discussion outside the negotiating context in order to help move the sustainable development policy agenda forward. (KNN)
To be held on the sidelines of the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference, the symposium will be held from December 3-5 in Bali, Indonesia.
Sessions, organised by a wide array of international organisations, will address the most pressing contemporary trade and sustainable development issues, which will be categorised under these three thematic streams, namely, environment and natural resources; international trade governance and sustainable development; and trade and economic development.
A special session titled ‘The Future of Aid for Trade at the WTO’ will be held on December-4 jointly organized by the South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
The objectives of the meeting are – to discuss the future of Aid for Trade at the WTO in a rapidly changing trade and finance landscape. It will specifically address how the Aid for Trade initiative can be reinvigorated so it responds to the changes in a manner that strengthens the WTO in years to come.
The session to be moderated by Dirk Willem te VELDE of the Investment and Growth Programme, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will also dwell on how aid for trade can continue to support LDCs and be an effective tool for developing value chains.
Other speakers include Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group-ODI, Yurendra BASNETT; Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework-World Trade Organization, Ratnakar ADHIKARI; Adviser & Head, International Trade and Regional Cooperation Section, Economic Affairs Division-Commonwealth Secretariat, UK Mohammed RAZZAQUE; Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group-Overseas Development Institute,
Jodie KEANE; and Head, Trade Policy Unit (Negotiations and Programmes) - Department for International Development/Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK
Eamon CASSIDY.
The event will convene top policy makers, thinkers and business leaders with a view to providing cutting edge analysis and creative solutions to move the sustainable development policy agenda forward.
Over the past decade, the Trade and Development Symposium has earned a reputation as the premier parallel event at WTO Ministerial Conferences. These symposia offer a valuable space for a wide range of stakeholders – from policymakers to business leaders to non-governmental organisations – to engage in substantive open discussion outside the negotiating context in order to help move the sustainable development policy agenda forward. (KNN)
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