Objectives
In the 21st Century, deepening trade has become a prominent feature of the international landscape. As interdependence among nations has grown, it has created new and complex public policy challenges that can only be addressed by highly skilled, well informed policymakers. The World Bank has intensified in this decade its analytical, advisory, and lending-related work on many trade fronts (trade, growth, and poverty; food standards; customs modernization, trade logistics; agricultural trade; services trade; Doha round implications for developing countries; regionalism; etc.) with analytical work and, through WBI, with specialized learning events in various trade sub-topics. Moreover, WBI has also been engaged in various overview courses focused on the economic and development aspects of trade policy. Various departments and schools at Columbia University are also actively engaged in teaching, research, and policy advisory work related to trade reforms and negotiations. To meet such needs the World Bank Institute, in cooperation with the International Trade Department of the World Bank, has partnered with the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University to jointly develop and offer a state-of-the-art, comprehensive, fee-based course titled “Trade Policy for Development Executive Course”. Target Audience and Participation Requirements
The target audience is mainly senior to middle level government trade officials, their advisors, and representative of business associations and civil society from developing countries. However, the course will be open also to staff from international organizations, donor agencies, governments, business association and civil society in developed countries. Criteria for admission include level and relevance to trade policy making or advising of applicants’ current work responsibilities, their prior experience and college-level education, and an indication of the participant’s ability to identify and obtain the required funding to attend the course. A ceiling of 40 participants has been set to ensure a high level of instructional quality and interaction among the participants. Thus, interested applicants are encouraged to apply early as admission decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Admitted participants will be required to make brief presentations on a theme or on a country of their choice, preferably tied to their current work responsibilities, during the course to enrich the lectures and the discussions at the course. They will also be expected to take a multiple choice test at the beginning and at the end of the course, not for grading purposes, but for evaluating the course effectiveness in achieving overall learning gains. Participants will be issued a certificate of course completion issued jointly by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and by the World Bank Institute.
Timing and Locations
The course will be held on June 2nd to June 13th , 2008, with the first week on the Columbia campus in New York City, followed by a week at the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Application Deadline
The application deadline is Monday, March 3, 2008. For an application, visit SIPA’s trade program website at:
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/nondegree_programs/tradeprogram/
Content
The course emphasizes the economic and development implications of trade policy and negotiations (be it at the unilateral, multilateral, or regional fronts), while also ensuring an adequate treatment of the international trade architecture and of the institutional and practical aspects of policy making and negotiations. Approximately equal weight is given to trade policy principles, lessons from trade policy experience, the trade/growth/poverty, the WTO and Doha agenda, and the regionalism agenda (covering North-South and South-South agreements, including FTAs), with a good dose of case studies, including on unilateral trade reforms.
See the attached provisional agenda.
Faculty
Lecturers will be drawn from the trade experts in the economics and other departments at Columbia University, in the Bank's International Trade Department staff, and at other selected institutions, who have (co-)authored the teaching modules prepared for this course or who will be invited as guest lecturers. These are:
Jagdish Bhagwati (guest lecturer), Columbia
Steven Charnovitz, George Washington
Robert Howse, Michigan
Geoff Jehle, Vassar
Tim Josling, Stanford
Pravin Krishna, Brown
Mary Lovely, Syracuse
Arvid Lukauskas, Columbia’s SIPA
Edward Mansfield, Pennsylvania
Devashish Mitra, Syracuse
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia
Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Columbia
T.N. Srinivasan, Yale
Robert Stern, Michigan
Wendy Takacs, Maryland/Baltimore County
Joel Trachtman, Tufts Patrick Messerlin, Science Po , Paris, France
Spencer Hanson, Guelph University, Canada (co-author w/ S. Jaffee)
Simon Evenett, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (co-author w/ B. Hoekman)
David Widdowson, Univ. of Canberra, Australia (co-author w. G. McLinden)
Olivier Cadot, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (co-author with S. Andriamananjara) Bernard Hoekman, World Bank (co-author w/ S. Evenett)
Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank (co-author w/ G. Zanini)
Paul Brenton, World Bank
Gerard McLinden, World Bank (co-author w. D. Widdowson)
Steve Jaffee, World Bank (co-author w/ S. Hanson)
Richard Newfarmer, World Bank
Gianni Zanini, World Bank Institute (co-author w/ A. Mattoo)
Carsten Fink, World Bank Institute (currently on sabbatical at Sciences Po, Paris, France)
Soamiely Andriamananjara, World Bank Institute (co-author with O. Cadot)
Will Martin, World Bank (guest lecturer) Cost
A tuition fee of $4,500 per participant will be charged to cover all costs associated with the delivery of this two-week long course, including lunches during weekdays and one-way bus transport between New York City and Washington, DC. WBI will facilitate hotel reservations for those participants requiring such assistance, but such costs would be additional. Participants who can or prefer to make own accommodation arrangements are welcome to do so. A deposit in the amount of US$1,500 will be required to reserve a space in the course within 15 days (end-March) following notification of admission (around mid-March). And payment of the full tuition fee will be required by Wednesday, April 31, 2008. SIPA and WBI will extend assistance to confirmed participants in providing required information to U.S. consular offices abroad to facilitate visa applications, but such application remain the responsibility of individual participants. Scholarships or Tuition Waivers
Participants are expected to identify and obtain the required funding for all travel, meals, accommodation, and tuition from their employers or from local development agencies and aid donors that have ongoing programs of trade-related technical assistance and may be able and interested in sponsoring training abroad. Neither SIPA nor WBI have access to any funds that can cover partially or fully participants’ travel and accommodation costs for this course. As full cost recovery for this course is a critical pre-requisite for SIPA and WBI to improve, update, and offer this flagship course regularly on an annual basis, neither SIPA nor WBI can grant partial or full tuition waivers.
Contact Information Arvid Lukauskas
Program Co-Director, Trade Policy for Development Executive Course
Picker Center for Executive Education
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027 Tel.: 212-854-2710
Fax: 212-854-0613
tradeprogram@columbia.edu(email)
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/nondegree_programs/tradeprogram/
Gianni Zanini
Program Co-Director, Trade Policy for Development Executive Course
Lead Economist and WBIPR Trade Program Leader, World Bank Institute
1818 H St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20878
Tel. : 202-473-5279
Fax : 202-676-9810
jcastillo@worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/trade(World Bank International Trade Department)
www.worldbank.org/wbi/trade (World Bank Institute trade program) |
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