The objective of the meeting is to assist developing countries, especially African countries and least developed countries (LDCs), as well as countries with economies in transition, in establishing regulatory and institutional frameworks and cooperative mechanisms to support the strengthening of their domestic services capacity and its efficiency, competitiveness and export capabilities.
The meeting will address:
- Trends and salient features of regulatory and institutional frameworks for infrastructure services (energy, financial, telecommunications and transport services), development and trade.
- The efficiency and effectiveness of these regulatory and institutional frameworks and their interaction with supply capacities, non-trade-related objectives including universal access policies, and trade liberalization.
- The exchange of experiences and best practices for building human capital and institutional and regulatory frameworks based on sectoral and modal (including mode 4) case studies and policy reviews.
- Trade agreements, regulatory and institutional frameworks, and regulatory barriers to exports.
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together experts and practitioners from governments, sector regulators and competition authorities, services policymakers, trade negotiators, research institutions, civil society and the private sector to address the development implications of regulatory and institutional frameworks in infrastructure services sectors, and to identify and clarify the key issues and relevant policy options to enhance the capacity of developing countries to benefit from services development and trade.
The outcome of this session of the expert meeting will be used as input for the final session of the multi-year expert meeting, with a view to formulating practical options and actionable outcomes in line with paragraph 207 of the Accra Accord, including through the final session, which is expected to assess the impact of regulatory and institutional frameworks for infrastructure services, development and trade, and to identify practical solutions, options, capacity-building programmes, and indicative guidelines/checklists of best practices for policymakers and regulators.
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Input from experts Experts nominated by member States are encouraged to submit brief papers (approximately five pages) as contributions to the work of the meeting. The papers will be made available at the meeting in the form and language in which they are received. They should be submitted to the UNCTAD secretariat in advance of the meeting, and addressed to Ms. Liping Zhang and Ms. Faustina Attobra-Wilson. F.: 41 22 917 0044 |
