BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ab0dcb04a081 DTSTART:20171026T100000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20171026T100000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Enviro nment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development\, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation\, first session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION: \n\nHarnessing international production networks to foster in clusive growth and local productive capacities\n\n \n\nA combination of f alling commodity prices\, increasing financial market volatility and weak global demand has negatively affected growth performance in developing eco nomies in recent years.\n\nAgainst this difficult background\, high hopes have been placed in the trade and industrialization opportunities offered by international production networks. Rather than having to develop an ent ire product or break into highly competitive markets on their own\, develo ping countries can specialize in specific tasks or components of a multitu de of value chains\, starting at the relatively accessible bottom and stea dily upgrading to higher value adding activities.\n\nHowever\, as document ed in the Trade and Development Report\, 2016: Structural Transformation f or Inclusive and Sustained Growth\, the evidence of a positive association between participation in global value chains and industrialization is wea k.\n\nMany countries in the developing world have found it difficult to sc ale up and diversify across global value chains\; instead\, they have been locked into low value adding tasks and are often hostage to price competi tion that keeps wages low.\n\nThe first session of the Expert Meeting will explore strategic approaches to link up to global value chains in order t o upgrade local productive capacities and sustain an inclusive growth proc ess.\n\nIt will focus on the opportunities offered by regional value chain s and South–South cooperation in this respect and discuss the role that industrial policy can play to turn integration and upgrading in global val ue chains into a driver of economic development. Particular attention will be devoted to the case of Southern Africa and lessons learned from other regions in the South.\n\nContributions from Experts\n\nExperts are encoura ged to prepare articles on the subject under discussion. These papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they a re received.\n<\;p>\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;<\;stron g>\;Harnessing international production networks to foster inclusive gro wth and local productive capacities<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p >\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;A combination of falling commo dity prices\, increasing financial market volatility and weak global deman d has negatively affected growth performance in developing economies in re cent years.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Against this difficult background\, high hopes have been placed in the trade and industrialization opportuniti es offered by international production networks. Rather than having to dev elop an entire product or break into highly competitive markets on their o wn\, developing countries can specialize in specific tasks or components o f a multitude of value chains\, starting at the relatively accessible bott om and steadily upgrading to higher value adding activities.<\;/p>\;\n \n<\;p>\;However\, as documented in the Trade and Development Report\, 2016: Structural Transformation for Inclusive and Sustained Growth\, the evidence of a positive association between participation in global value c hains and industrialization is weak.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Many countr ies in the developing world have found it difficult to scale up and divers ify across global value chains\; instead\, they have been locked into low value adding tasks and are often hostage to price competition that keeps w ages low.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The first session of the Expert Meetin g will explore strategic approaches to link up to global value chains in o rder to upgrade local productive capacities and sustain an inclusive growt h process.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;It will focus on the opportunities of fered by regional value chains and South–South cooperation in this respe ct and discuss the role that industrial policy can play to turn integratio n and upgrading in global value chains into a driver of economic developme nt. Particular attention will be devoted to the case of Southern Africa an d lessons learned from other regions in the South.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;<\;strong>\;Contributions from Experts<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\; \n\n<\;p>\;Experts are encouraged to prepare articles on the subject u nder discussion. These papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they are received.<\;/p>\;\n\n\nView meeti ng on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-expert-meeting-enh ancing-enabling-economic-environment-all-levels-support-2 DTSTAMP:20260921T072848Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ab0dcb04a0c5 DTSTART:20171027T100000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20171027T100000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Enviro nment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development\, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation\, first session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION: \n\nHarnessing international production networks to foster in clusive growth and local productive capacities\n\n \n\nA combination of f alling commodity prices\, increasing financial market volatility and weak global demand has negatively affected growth performance in developing eco nomies in recent years.\n\nAgainst this difficult background\, high hopes have been placed in the trade and industrialization opportunities offered by international production networks. Rather than having to develop an ent ire product or break into highly competitive markets on their own\, develo ping countries can specialize in specific tasks or components of a multitu de of value chains\, starting at the relatively accessible bottom and stea dily upgrading to higher value adding activities.\n\nHowever\, as document ed in the Trade and Development Report\, 2016: Structural Transformation f or Inclusive and Sustained Growth\, the evidence of a positive association between participation in global value chains and industrialization is wea k.\n\nMany countries in the developing world have found it difficult to sc ale up and diversify across global value chains\; instead\, they have been locked into low value adding tasks and are often hostage to price competi tion that keeps wages low.\n\nThe first session of the Expert Meeting will explore strategic approaches to link up to global value chains in order t o upgrade local productive capacities and sustain an inclusive growth proc ess.\n\nIt will focus on the opportunities offered by regional value chain s and South–South cooperation in this respect and discuss the role that industrial policy can play to turn integration and upgrading in global val ue chains into a driver of economic development. Particular attention will be devoted to the case of Southern Africa and lessons learned from other regions in the South.\n\nContributions from Experts\n\nExperts are encoura ged to prepare articles on the subject under discussion. These papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they a re received.\n<\;p>\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;<\;stron g>\;Harnessing international production networks to foster inclusive gro wth and local productive capacities<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p >\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;A combination of falling commo dity prices\, increasing financial market volatility and weak global deman d has negatively affected growth performance in developing economies in re cent years.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Against this difficult background\, high hopes have been placed in the trade and industrialization opportuniti es offered by international production networks. Rather than having to dev elop an entire product or break into highly competitive markets on their o wn\, developing countries can specialize in specific tasks or components o f a multitude of value chains\, starting at the relatively accessible bott om and steadily upgrading to higher value adding activities.<\;/p>\;\n \n<\;p>\;However\, as documented in the Trade and Development Report\, 2016: Structural Transformation for Inclusive and Sustained Growth\, the evidence of a positive association between participation in global value c hains and industrialization is weak.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Many countr ies in the developing world have found it difficult to scale up and divers ify across global value chains\; instead\, they have been locked into low value adding tasks and are often hostage to price competition that keeps w ages low.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The first session of the Expert Meetin g will explore strategic approaches to link up to global value chains in o rder to upgrade local productive capacities and sustain an inclusive growt h process.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;It will focus on the opportunities of fered by regional value chains and South–South cooperation in this respe ct and discuss the role that industrial policy can play to turn integratio n and upgrading in global value chains into a driver of economic developme nt. Particular attention will be devoted to the case of Southern Africa an d lessons learned from other regions in the South.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;<\;strong>\;Contributions from Experts<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\; \n\n<\;p>\;Experts are encouraged to prepare articles on the subject u nder discussion. These papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they are received.<\;/p>\;\n\n\nView meeti ng on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-expert-meeting-enh ancing-enabling-economic-environment-all-levels-support-2 DTSTAMP:20260921T072848Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR