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Date	Title	Speakers
January 12, 2011	BBL: Trade in Services and Labor Market Regulations Joint Brown Bag Lunch Poverty Reduction (PRMPR) and International Trade (PRMTR)	Co-chairs: Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, World Bank Jose Guilherme Reis, World Bank Speaker: David Barnes, IBM Corporation Discussants: Raymond Robertson, Professor at Macallester College Sebastian Saez, orld Bank
October 20, 2010	BBL: Harnessing Quality for Global Competitiveness - The Role of Metrology, Testing Labs, Certification, and Other Similar Institutions in Development	Chair: Bernard Hoekman, Director, International Trade Department, World Bank Speaker: Jean-Louis Racine, Private Sector Development Specialist, ECSPF Discussants: Karl-Christian Göthner and Clemens Sanetra, experts affiliated with PTB, The German National Metrology Institute
June 16, 2010	Conference: Growth, Competitiveness and Role of Government Policies	Howard Pack, Professor of Business and Public Policy, Economics, and Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania Kamal Saggi, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University Please click click here to see more speakers for this event
June 3, 2010	Export Strategy: Building an Export Culture	Friedrich von Kirchbach, Director, International Trade Centre (ITC) Anton J. Said, Chief, Export Strategy, International Trade Centre (ITC) Chair: Jose Guilherme Reis, PRMTR
April 28, 2010	PREM Week Seminar: Trade & Competitiveness in the Post-Crisis Environment: Structural Changes in Trade and the Role of Competitiveness Brochure: Export Competitiveness: Engine to Growth & Development	Gordon Hanson, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center on Pacific Economies, University of California, San Diego Will Milberg, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York
January 28, 2010	Integration of Developing Countires into Global Supply Chains	Edgar Blanco, Director, CTL Emerging Markets Research Initiative, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Ronald E. Berenbeim,Principal Researcher, Business Ethics,The Conference Board Jose Guilherme Reis, PRMTR
September 24, 2009	Trade Quality in LAC	William F. Maloney, Lead Economist, DECRG Danieal Lederman, Senior Economist, DECRG
September 8, 2009	Duty and Tax Relief and Suspension Schemes for Improving Export Competitiveness Video Recording of the Event (Please note that due to the technical difficulties for the first 3 minutes of the recording the audio is not available)	Professor David Widdowson, CEO, Customs and Excise Studies Center, University of Canberra, Australia
April 28, 2009	Upgrading Competitiveness in the Time of International Crisis B-span Video Recording	Esko Aho, Exec VP of Corporate Relations and Responsibility of Nokia (Finland) Jose Maria Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica and CEO of Concordia 21 Renato Baumann, Director, UN-ECLAC from Brazil Ritva Reinikka, Sector Director for Social and Economic Development, Middle East and North Afria region, World Bank
March 19, 2009	Industrial Clusters for Export Competitiveness: Tools and Current Practices	Christian Ketels, Faculty, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School Kevin Murphy, CEO, J.E. Austin Associates, Inc
June 25, 2008	Is Free Trade Good for Developing Countries: Assessing Recent Critiques video recording of the lecture Relevant material Jagdish Bhagwati (2007). Do Not Cry for Free Trade, The Financial Times, October 10, 2007 Critiques of Free Trade Animation	Lecturer: Jagadish Bhagwati, Columbia University Chair: Justin Lin, Chief Economist and SVP, DEC, The World Bank
May 8, 2008	Implementing Cluster Competitiveness Initiatives	Kevin Murphy, President, J.E. Austin Associates Inc.
April 24, 2008	Micro-Foundations of Competitiveness and Policy Implications	Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Harvard Business School Relevant materials: Global Competitiveness Report 2008, chapters 1 & 2 Columbia Case Study Kenya Case Study
April 15, 2008	Export Competitiveness: Growth Prerequisite or Dangerous Obsession? Watch Video recording	Yung Chul Park, Professor - Economics, Korea University, KOREA Anne Krueger, Professor - International Economics, Johns Hopkins University, USA Stan Sutula III, Chief Financial Officer, IBM Americas Group, USA
March 5, 2008	Searching for Industrial Policies: Why and How?	Charles F. Sabel, Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School Paper:Reconfiguring Industrial Policy: A Framework with an Application to South Africa Hausmann, R.; Rodrik, D. and C. Sabel (2007).
February 14, 2008	FDI and Export Competitiveness: Good News, Bad News, Surprising News Contrary to popular assumptions, flow of FDI to medium-skilled industrial sectors in developing countries -such as in electrical equipment, autos and auto parts, industrial machinery, chemicals - is more than ten times larger than flow to low-skill, labor-intensive operations, and is speeding up over time. How can developing countries use inward manufacturing FDI to generate productivity gains and promote higher skill-intensive activities? What are respective roles of trade policy, infrastructure, human resources and proactive measures? What can the recipient countries learn from experiences around the world in terms of negotiating with MNCs?	Theodore H. Moran Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Business and Finance Georgetown University Paper: A Perspective from the MNE Declaration to the Present: Mistakes, Surprises, and Newly Important Policy Implications, Moran, T.H. (2007).
January 22, 2008	Competitiveness Through An Industry Lens Can an industry lens add to the Bank's economic and sector work in developing countries? There is a growing evidence that industry-specific policy and enforcement issues are the main constraints to private investment and fair competition -- the two drivers of productivity and thus economic growth. This might add a valuable dimension to the work on incentive structure and setting of reform priorities.	Vincent Palmade, Lead Economist, FIAS
October 25, 2007	Mainstreaming Competitiveness: How to Grow and Alleviate Poverty through Exports? A renewed debate on 'picking winners.' There is an incremental need of developing a strategically-focused discriminatory approach for boosting export-led growth. Three key components of such a strategy might be: (i) access to markets; (ii) logistic costs including infrastructure and services; (iii) exportable offer that meets buyer expectations on quality, productivity, and innovation.	Jose Luis Guasch, Senior Adviser, Regulation and Competition, LAC
April 24, 2008	PREM Week Learning Event: Tools for Assessing Trade Competitiveness The purpose of this half-day course is to familiarize country economist with a set of tools that can be easily used to assess trade competitiveness. This course provides information on data and tools about the three pillars of trade and competitiveness:	Introduction and Overview (Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Economic Adviser, PRMTR) First pillar: The Incentive Regime (Paul Brenton, Sr. Economist, PRMTR) Second pillar: Backbone Services - Efficiency & Cost (Gianni Zanini, Lead Economist, WBI) Third pillar: Overcoming Govt and Market Failures (Mallika Shakya, Economist, PRMTR)
March 15, 2007	Export Growth and Diversification Workshop	International Trade Department, The World Bank Is 'discovery' of products the principal impediments to diversifying exports? Beyond the incentive regimes, what types of pro-active policies can be adopted to promote diversification? Eighteen papers presented on key issues related to export growth and diversification.

The main website on International Trade offers a series of workshops, training and other learning events periodically on trade policy, trade-related services and costs, logistics and supply chain, data and tools, etc.

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