DEVELOPMENT: GENEVA WEEK II

21 October 2000
WTO organizes a second “Geneva Week” for non-resident delegations

21-27 October 2000

The Secretariat organized a second information week on 21-27 October 2000 for the 37 WTO members and observers without permanent representation at headquarters. Director-General Mike Moore said “it is a way of increasing participation and transparency for the smaller members.”

See also:

> Joint WTO-World Bank website — the Trade and Development Centre

> Website of the Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least-Developed Countries

> Consult the Guide to downloading files.

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Seminar on Small Economies  back to top

The Geneva Week began on Saturday 21 October with a Seminar on Small Economies. The objective of the seminar was to explore issues related to the problems of small economies and possible linkages to WTO provisions. Participation was open to WTO Members and Observers and Inter-Governmental Organizations with observer status in the WTO Committee on Trade and Development.

Programme

Background material on small economies

• Peter Tulloch
  Small economies: the current status of events in the WTO
  Background paper for small states' forum, Prague, 25 September 2000.
• “Small States : Meeting Challenges in the Global Economy” by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank Joint Task Force on Small States
• “Developing a vulnerability index for SIDS” by the United Nations
• Statement of Dr. Richard L. Bernal, Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere House Committee on International Relations, May 17, 2000

Summary report of the seminar on small economies.