DEVELOPMENT: SPECIAL EVENTS
Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) Seminar on Technology, Trade and Development

The WTO organized through its Committee on Trade and Development, on 14 February 2001, a seminar on “Trade, Technology and Development” aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries in relation to technology access in the context of the WTO. Experts from the WTO and other agencies, academics, donor and WTO representatives helped identify policy options and choices, as well as types of support and assistance available to developing countries.

• Go to the programme
  (download in MS Word format; 2 pages; 45KB)
            

• Background documents 

  >  “Knowledge-based Industries in Asia”, OECD (in pdf format; 75 pages; 372 KB)
  >  “Asia and the Global Crisis: the Industrial Dimension”, OECD (in pdf format; 13 pages; 79 KB)
  >  “Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Technology Transfer: A Survey”, Kamal Saggi (in MS Word format; 34 pages; 178 KB)
  > “Issues Related to Technology Policies”, Assad Omer, UNCTAD (in Powerpoint format; 61 KB )
   

• Summary report

  > “Summary report by the Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Development”, Mr. Ransford Smith (in MS Word format; 3 pages; 36 KB)

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