Program 2010 - Joint Vienna Institute

34 | Course Descriptions
Date |
April 12 - 16, 2010
Sponsor |
IBRD / World Bank Institute
Attendance |
By invitation only; please address
inquiries to Ms. Anita Chen
achen1@worldbank.org
language |
The course is conducted in English only.
International Trade in Services for
MENA Countries: Sectoral Issues (ITS)
Target group | Senior-level government trade officials, their
advisors, and other senior government officials in economic and
sectoral ministries and departments. The course will also be open to
staff from international organizations, donor governments, private
sector, and civil society organizations who are engaged in advisory
and analytical work related to services trade.
description | This one-week course will strengthen the ability
of trade officials, advisors, analysts, and representatives of business
and consumer associations to understand the economic and
development implications of services liberalization and trade, and
to contribute to the formulation of their country’s trade in services
reform and negotiating agenda. This course draws largely from the
“Handbook of International Trade in Services”, a volume published
in January 2008 by Oxford University Press, which gathers WBIcommissioned
overview papers and other non-Bank seminal works.
The course will offer a preview of a new database comparing actual
national services trade policy and international commitments.
Lecturers in each sub-topic will be various eminent experts from the
Bank, the WTO, academia, and other organizations, who in many
cases authored chapters of the Handbook. Participants will also
have the opportunity to engage trade policy experts and each other
through panel discussions and real-world case studies.