November 29, 1999
Conference: The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round
A conference, The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round: Beyond the NGO Din, will be held at the University of Washington from 8:30 – 5:00 on Monday, November 29 in the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall. Sponsored by the Institute for International Policy, the participants include: officials from international organizations (WTO, OECD, World Bank, IMF); academic specialists; senior delegates to the Ministerial from developing nations (Mexico, Philippines, Bangladesh); and government representatives from China and Taiwan.
The agenda is built around four topics: (1) an assessment of recent OECD and World Bank studies of the WTO-Developing World relationship by representatives from Third World countries; (2) an evaluation of China’s imminent accession to the WTO by both academics and officials from Beijing and Taiwan; (3) the paradox of flourishing regional economic groups in the shadow of the global WTO; and (4) whether the Internet will lead to a free trade millennium and render the WTO a 20th century dinosaur.
The basic thrust of this conference is to suggest that the challenge of the growing gap between rich and poor nations requires basic reform of the WTO – as well as the other surviving Bretton Woods institutions.
For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.iip.washington.edu/wtoconf
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For more information, contact Diane Adachi, 206-679-5599
