Русская версия Day 1, Monday, March 28, 2005 Registration of participants V. Egorov, Rector of RAGS Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Country Director Mr. Vladimir Tkachenko, Deputy Head, Department of trade negotiations, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation
Session I: The Standard Trade Model, Gains from Trade
Session II: Instruments of Trade Policy - Tariffs, Export Taxes, and Subsidies, NTBs Paper by Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Paolo Epifani (pdf - 139k)
Day 2, Tuesday, March 29, 2005 The Sturcture of Import Tariffs in Russia: 2001-2003 Paper by David Tarr (The World Bank), Oleksandr Shepotylo (The University of Maryland), Timour Koudoyarov (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) (pdf - 702k)
Openness, Growth & Poverty Paper by Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marcello Spano (pdf - 199k) Keywords by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (word - 21k)
Session I: General Evidence (cross-country) And Overview of Country Evidence (HK, Singapore, Chile; Mauritius, Korea, China
Monopoly Power in Trade Globalization and CIS Session I: Worldwide trade flows in goods and services, including Russia and the CIS; patterns of protection Paper by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (pdf - 116k) Background paper: Industrial Policies for Competitiveness in a Global Economy, David Tarr (word - 32k)
Session II: Russian Perspective on Globalization Paper by Victoria Perskaya, RAGS (word - 234k)
Trade and Environment
Day 3, Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Country Experiences with Trade Policy
Day 4, Thursday, March 31, 2005
Adjustment to Trade Reform
Exchange Rate Strategy
Introduction to the WTO
Session I: History of GATT; Need for Multilateral Agreements; Organization; Membership and Accession; Functions, and Limits of the WTO; Reciprocity; National Treatment; MFN Principle; Dispute Settlement Mechanism Paper by Marc Bacchatta(word - 192k)
Session II: Russia, the GATT, and the WTO II
Day 5, Friday, April 01, 2005
Introduction to the WTO
Standards
Day 6, Saturday, April 02, 2005
Investment and Subsidies, Safeguards and Anti-Dumping Session I: Multilateral Discipline (TRIMs) Paper by Giorgio Barba Navaretti & Angelica Salvi del Pero (word - 209k)
Session II: Subsidies / Countervailing Duties Presentation Giorgio Barba Navaretti & David Tarr (ppt - 110k) Paper by Giorgio Barba Navaretti & Angelica Salvi del Pero(pdf - 96k) Keywords by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (word - 20k)
Investment Climate Transformation in Russia after WTO Accession
Day 7, Monday, April 04, 2005 Agriculture Trade Facilitation Session I: Benefits from Logistics and Transport Facilitation and Customs Modernization Presentation by Tsune Otsuki (Osaka School of International Public Policy) (ppt - 120k) Paper by John Wilson (word - 112k)
Session II: Russia’s Customs Reform and the WTO, Leonid Lozbenko (State Customs Committee) Paper by Carlos D. C. Ferreira (word - 77k)
Day 8, Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Industrial Policy and Export Diversification - Worldwide Experience (exports in mineral dependent economies, Dutch disease)
- Paper by Natasha Volchkova (CEFIR) (word - 585k)
- Russia case, Comments by Mr. Folomiev
- Session I: Japan case - trade policy and export development
Regional Trade Arrangements
Session I: Principles (static and dynamic) Welfare Effects; WTO discipline, Junichi Goto
Session II Worldwide Experiences with Regional Integration – Rules of Origin, Rules of Thumb Paper by Bernard Hoekman, Maurice Schiff & Junichi Goto (word - 367k)
Session III: Customs Unions in the CIS Paper by David Tar & Constantine Michalopoulos (word - 226k)
Session IV: The Impact on Russia of the EU Eastern Expansion Paper by Natalia Tourdyeva (CEFIR) (word - 114k)
Day 9, Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Services
Intellectual Property
Country Experiences with Trade Policy
Session III: Chile Paper by Ambassador Jara (word - 460k) Paper (Spanish) by Ambassador Jara (word - 386k)
The Doha Round
Session I: The Doha Round – Overview, Gianni Zanini and Marc Bacchetta Paper by Carlos A. Primo Braga (word - 88k)
GATS, Russia and the Future of Multilateral Regulation of Services, Nikolai Livenstov
Day 10, Thursday, April 07, 2005
Russian Regions, Trade Policy, and Accession Session I: Economic Georgraphy and the Regions of Russia Paper by Masahisa Fujita, Kazuhiro Kumo and Natalia Zubarevich (word - 1.5mb)
Session II: Trade policy and WTO accession: implications for the regions of Russia, including discussion of the OECD report Paper (not an edited version) by Junichi Goto, Kazuhiro Kumo, Natalia Zubarevich (word - 289k)
Impact of Russia’s Accession Tariff Strategy and Political Economy of Tariffs Day 11, Friday, April 08, 2005
Services, IPRs and Government Procurement: Russia cases Session I: Russian Banking Case Paper - old version by Alexei Vedev (word - 296k)
Session II: Government procurement, Perov
Session III: Intellectual Property in Russia Paper (not an edited version) by Ekaterina Ananieva (word - 84k)
Russia’s Accession: Government Perspective Session I: Views and update on WTO accession from the Russian Government
Mr. Vladimir Tkahenko, Deputy Head of Trade Negotiations Department, (MEDT)
Russia’s Accession: Views on WTO accession from Business, Labor and Key Trade Partners
Session II: Concluding Roundtable Ms. Kristalina I. Georgieva (World Bank Country Director for Russia, Chair) Mr. Georgy G. Petrov (RCC) Mr. Boris Vishnevsky (Working Group of Union of Industrialists and Entreprenuers, Chief Secretary) Mr. Vitaly Budko (Federation of Independent Labor Unions, First Deputy Chairman) Mr. Mark Franco (Head of EU Delegation) Ms. Pam Quanrud (US Embassy, Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs)
Housekeeping and Evaluations, Viktoria Perskaya and Irina Prusass |
