Note to Correspondents

UNU SEMINAR ON ‘WTO AND CHALLENGES TO TRADE-LED GROWTH’

 

at Headquarters, 29 SEPTEMBER

 

The United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) are organizing on 29 September, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium a panel entitled "WTO and challenges to trade-led growth".

Within the context of the United Nation's role in helping to conserve and manage Africa's natural resources, the strategic plan of UNU and initiatives under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the panel will focus on Institutional and Capacity Development for Reducing Hunger in Africa:  The Strategies of UNU-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa and Its Partners.

Panel Chairperson:  Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head of the United Nations University Office in New York.

Panellists:  Kym Anderson, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank; Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Project Director, “The effect of the WTO regime on developing countries”, UNU-WIDER; Inge Kaul, Director, Office of Development Studies, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Further information, including the agenda and registration, is available online at http://www.ony.unu.edu, or by contacting the New York Office at 1-212-963-6387.

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