Catalog of Learning Activities

WBI Program: Growth and Crisis
Activity Title: Preferential Trade Agreements for Development: Issues and Implications Course (joint with TRAPCA)
Activity ID: GCR10-00-042
   

Contact Info

Task Manager: Jean-Christophe Maur
Email: jmaur@worldbank.org
Task Admin: Anita Chen
Email: achen1@worldbank.org

Date and Cost

Start Date: November 30 2009
End Date: December 04 2009
Cost: Fees Apply

Description

Preferential trade agreements are an increasingly present feature in trade policy making, with many countries belonging to more than two agreements. Agreements are also becoming more complex as the scope of cooperation covered goes well beyond industrial tariffs reductions into services trade liberalization, regulatory disciplines and other areas of economic international cooperation. The course -- a joint product of the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA) and WBI -- intends to convey some of the most recent thinking on regional trade integration, to increase awareness and offer a forum to discuss in detail the main economic implications of regional trade agreements for Eastern and Southern Africa, and to assess the impact of negotiating on some the new issues covered by those agreements. The course curriculum is based on new academic material specially prepared for WBI by leading trade specialists and is designed to provide an insight into the most recent areas of debate.

Objective

The main goal of this course is to provide participating policymakers, academics and analysts with the appropriate knowledge and tools to analyze (and design) such agreements and ensure that preferential trade agreements help maximize the benefits from more open trade for developing countries.

Topic(s)

Macroeconomics and Economic Growth

Participants

Audience: Trade policy makers, analysts and academics in Africa

Target Country(s): Tanzania

Partners: Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA)

Site Information

Delivery Modes: Face to Face (40 Hours)

Locations:Arusha, Tanzania
 Languages: English