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23rd Regional Course in Singapore for Asia and the Pacific from 14 November to 2 December 2011
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The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 23rd regional course in Singapore. It will be co-sponsored by the Singapore Cooperation Program of the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will take place from 14 November to 2 December 2011. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and national experts from Singapore. Trade policy officials and academics in the region are invited to participate in this course. The course notification, application guidelines and form are available here.
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COMESA will host the 21st Regional Course in Lusaka, Zambia from 26 September to 14 October 2011.
 The 21st Regional Course on Key issues on the International Economic Agenda was previously scheduled to take place in Cairo, Egypt. However, the course had to be postponed and will now take place at the COMESA secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia from 26 September to 14 October 2011. The program for the course will be uploaded shortly at this website
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22nd Regional Course for Latin America and Caribbean will take place at EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia.
 The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 22nd regional course at EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia. It will take place from 11 to 29 July 2011. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, national experts from Colombia and the UNCTAD Virtual Institute network members in the region.
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20th Regional Course at UN Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia, Beirut, Lebanon
for trade policy officials and academics
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The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 20th regional course at UN House, Beirut, Lebanon with the support of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. It will take place from 18 October to 5 November 2010. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with those from UNESCWA and national experts from Lebanon. Trade policy officials and academics in the region are invited to participate in this course.
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19th Regional Course in Baku, Azerbaijan
for trade policy officials and academics for economies in transition
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The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 19th regional course at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It will take place from 19 July to 6 August 2010. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and national experts from Azerbaijan. Trade policy officials and academics in the region are invited to participate in this course.
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18th Regional Course in Jakarta, Indonesia for trade policy officials and academics from the Asia and the Pacific
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The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 18th regional course at the NAM Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation in Jakarta, Indonesia with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. It will take place from 2-20 November 2009. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and national experts from Indonesia. Trade policy officials and academics in the region are invited to participate in this course.
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17th Regional Course at EAFIT, Medellin, for trade policy officials and academics, from Latin America and the Caribbean
The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 17th regional course at EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia. It will take place from 24 August to 11 September 2009. The course will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, national experts from Colombia and the UNCTAD Virtual Institute network members in the region. Trade policy officials and academics in the region are invited to participate in this course.
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Delegates discuss global economic crisis in the aftermath of G20 meeting
 "A global crisis needs global answers," Heiner Flassbeck, Director of UNCTAD's Globalization and Development Strategies Division, told the audience of 73 Geneva-based diplomats who gathered on 3 April to attend a short course on the Global Economic Crisis.
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Cairo 2009 Regional Course
16th Regional Course on Key Issues on the International Economic Agenda
For African trade-economic policy makers and academics (FR)
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 The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 16th regional course in Cairo, Egypt from 25 January to 12 February 2009. This event is held with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The course will address the challenges that developing countries face in the globalizing economy and how economic development can be assured through different external and internal factors. It will be delivered by UNCTAD experts, in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, national experts from Egypt and the UNCTAD Virtual Institute network members. It primarily targets policy makers from Governments in the region. Academia is also invited to participate in this course, particularly university professors who are well placed to use the ideas, knowledge and materials from the course in their own teaching and hence increase its longer-term impact in their countries.
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Bahrain 2008 Regional Course
15th Regional Course on Key Issues on the International Economic Agenda
For Western Asia from 26 October to 13 November 2008
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The UNCTAD secretariat is pleased to announce the 15th regional course in Manama Kingdom Bahrain from 26 October to 13 November 2008. This event is held with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The course will address the challenges that developing countries face in the globalizing economy and how economic development can be assured through different external and internal factors. The course is delivered by resource persons from UNCTAD, in cooperation with the UNESCWA, national experts from the host country and the UNCTAD Virtual Institute network members. It is primarily targeted at policy makers from Governments in the region. Academia is also invited to participate in this course, particularly university professors who are well placed to use the ideas and materials from the course in their own teaching and hence increase its longer-term impact in their countries.
Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, an International Trade Policies Researcher from the Central Department of World Trade Organization at the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Egypt attended the P166 regional course in Bahrain 2008. Read more >>>
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Minsk to host the next regional course
at the Belarus State Economic University
from 23 June to 11 July 2008
With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus
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UNCTAD delivers two regional courses for Africa in 2007
 The first regional course for Africa in 2007 that took place in Cairo in February met with a tremendous demand from African policy makers and academics - more than 80 candidates were competing for the 25 seats available. To respond to this demand, a second course for the region was delivered in Dakar, Senegal, in October-November. Fifty one participants from English, French and Portuguese-speaking African countries were in the end selected and could benefit from the two courses.
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Fall semester of short courses for Geneva delegates
by Yasemin Turetken
The second series of short courses on Key Issues on the International Economic Agenda for Heads and staff of Permanent Missions in Geneva has now come to an end for the year.
With the objective to provide Permanent Missions with a short and focused updated knowledge about topical issues in the main areas of UNCTAD's work, the following three topics were covered:
The courses met with a positive response, as course participants represented 36 member States, including seven least developed countries. The highest number of participants came from countries from the Latin American and Caribbean region (15 participants, including 2 ambassadors, representing 8 countries), followed by representatives from the African missions (13 participants, representing 9 countries).
The majority of the delegates stated that the courses had raised their awareness of trade topics and had been useful in their work. In sum, the choice of topics was appreciated, and a request to extend the duration of the courses was expressed.
To benefit those who were interested in a particular topic but could not attend the course, all documentation has been made accessible on the web.
More short courses will be organised in 2009, and will be announced shortly.
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| The UNCTAD Flagship Course
Key Issues on the International Economic Agenda
(Paragraph 166 course)
This course addresses the challenges that developing countries face in the globalizing economy and how economic development can be assured through different external and internal factors. It focuses on the links between trade, finance, investment and development, especially in the context of the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations and the approaches required to derive gains from trade that benefit development. The course is based on UNCTAD’s field of competence on the development dimension. It also includes the expertise of the UN Regional Commissions. The program builds the knowledge and skills of trade policy officials, academics and others from developing countries to better answer the challenges faced in the multilateral and other trade negotiations.
"Paragraph 166" refers to paragraph 166 of the Bangkok Plan of Action from the Tenth UNCTAD Conference held in 2000 in Bangkok. The mandate was successfully adopted at the Eleventh Conference held in 2004 in Sao Paolo; and by the Accra Declaration at the Twelfth Conference held in 2008 in Ghana.
Between 2001 and 2008 the secretariat successfully delivered 16 regional and 2 general courses. Courses in 2009 will be offered to trade policy makers and academics in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific region.
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