Strategies for Post COVID-19 Recovery in the Caribbean

Primer Foro Académico de Alto Nivel CELAC-China (FAANCC)

El foro académico tiene por objeto generar insumos y propuestas temáticas para la Segunda Reunión de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la CELAC y China, la que se llevará a cabo en Santiago de Chile en enero de 2018. Este evento académico es convocado por ILAS-Academia de Ciencias Sociales de China, el Instituto de Chile (sede de las Academias chilenas) y la CEPAL, como institución anfitriona. …

Strategies for increasing economic resilience in the Caribbean

Negotiating trade agreements for the 21st century

This paper was prepared as a stimulant to discussions at the workshop “Negotiating trade agreements for the 21st century: The case of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement”, organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade (IIT), with the generous financial support of the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Program (AUSAid). The workshop, held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago from 26 to 28 March 2012, brought together experienced trade negotiators from Australia’s D…

Trade, environment and development: implications for Caribbean countries

Introduction Trade and development issues have been the focus of economists, policy makers and international organizations for decades. However, environmental concerns have only come to the fore within the last couple of decades largely as a result of the work of scientists on, for example, climate change and loss in biodiversity as well as the lobbying activities of environmental groups, such as Greenpeace. The linking of environment to trade only gained international prominence since the negotiations for the Canada-United States Free Trade Area in the 1980s. However, although enviro…

Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future

Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future High-Level Summit 15–17 September 2023. Hosted by the Villars Institute in partnership with Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future Project…

Access to medicines and incentive for innovation

The balance struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on intellectual property (patent and data exclusivity) protection for pharmaceutical products…