Ministers, CEOs and Opinion leaders to dicuss governance and competitiveness in Asia

Geneva, 18 July 2003

A high-level meeting will be held at the Hotel Plaza Athen e in Bangkok, 2nd and 3rd of October, to discuss how the competing but interdependent agendas of governments, businesses and civil society in the Asia region can be aligned to develop competitive economies that boost growth and benefit the poor. Forty Ministers, CEOs and opinion leaders from across Asia will attend.

The participants will discuss many of the significant issues that face Asia's leaders today such as sustaining successful exports in the face of intense competition from new economies, strengthening regional trade blocks such as AFTA and SAFTA, and looking at where public-private partnerships work and where they don't. Also for discussion will be the issue of how the media and the government can mutually support each other and how corporate social responsibility can be realistically encouraged.

The meeting is organised by the UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development, which assists countries to integrate successfully into the global economy, and the International Institute for Trade and Development, Bangkok. It forms part of a new integration agenda and will also support the United Nations' eighth Millennium Development Goal on creating partnerships for development. Further regional seminars will follow in Africa and Latin America.

For more information please visit the meeting page.

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