World Bank Institute
Catalog of Learning Activities
| WBI Program: | Growth and Crisis |
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| Activity Title: | Trade Policy for Development Executive Course |
| Activity ID: | GCR10-00-016 |
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Contact Info
Task Manager: Gianni Zanini
Email: Gzanini@worldbank.org
Task Admin: Anita Chen
Email: achen1@worldbank.org
Date and Cost
Start Date: April 05 2010
End Date: April 09 2010
Cost: Fees Apply
Description
This flagship trade policy course, offered jointly with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, will emphasize 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. Date TBD. Please visit the Columbia SIPA website for more details (http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/nondegree_programs/tradeprogram/index.html). There are no sponsorships from SIPA or WBI available.
Objective
To improve the capacity of government officials and their advisors in think tanks and academia to assess and act strategically upon the entire trade policy and negotiating agenda faced by eveloping countries, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, in cooperation with its Economics Department and with its Law School, and the World Bank Institute, in cooperation with the International Trade Department of the World Bank, have developed a state-of-the-art, omprehensive Trade Policy for Development Executive Course. To complement other institutions' offerings focused on commercial diplomacy, this flagship course emphasizes the economic and development implications of trade policy and negotiations (be it at the unilateral, multilateral, or regional fronts).
Topic(s)
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
Participants
Audience: Medium-level government officials and their advisors as well as staff of international organizations with trade policy or negotating responsibilities.
Target Country(s): World Wide
Partners: Columbia University
Site Information
Delivery Modes: Face to Face (40 Hours)
Locations:New York and Washington, DC, United States of America
Languages: English