Enhancing the Contribution of Preferential Trade Agreements to Inclusive and Equitable Trade in the Caribbean

Course

Work area(s)

International trade and integration

Topic(s)

Inclusive development Trade facilitation

Course information

Type of course

Course

Training method

Face-to-face course

Course language

English

Geographic scope

International

Venue

The University of the West Indies
Faulty of Law, UWI Mona Campus
The Executive Seminar Room
Kingston
Jamaica

Date

-

Registration date

Programme

8:30 am        ​Registration

9:00 am        Welcome Address

  • Dr Damien King (Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Economics)
  • Mr Andrea Pellandra (Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC Santiago)

9:15 am        ​Empirical Evidence of the Social and Income Distribution Effects of trade Policy: Transmission Channels and Case Studies

  • Mr Andrea Pellandra (Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC Santiago)

9:45 am        Discussion

10:00 am        An Assessment of the Performance of CARICOM Extra-regional Trade Agreements

  • Mr Sheldon McLean (ECLAC Subregional Office for the Caribbean, Port-of-Spain)

10:30 am        Discussion

10:45 am        Coffee Break

11:15 am        Trade Liberalization in Jamaica

  • Dr Marie Freckleton (Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics)

11:45 am         Discussion

12:00 noon     Round Table: Ideas for Research Agenda on the Social Effects of Trade Policy in Jamaica

Organized by

The University of the West Indies Mona

  • http://www.mona.uwi.edu/
  • (876) 927-1660-9
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Subsidiary body(ies)

Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

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