This expert meeting will explore how developing countries can use trade, investment and technology flows to support strong productivity growth, increased employment and rising real wages, without generating external imbalances and distortions that could slow down the catch-up process. Participants will discuss these issues in the context of growing economic linkages among developing countries, and will examine how South-South cooperation can ensure that these linkages complement the efforts to build productive capabilities in countries with different initial endowments, institutional histories and policy capacities.  

dates: 23-25 February 2011   venue: Palais des Nations   location: Geneva, Switzerland   contact: Richard Kozul-Wright   fax: +41 22 917 0044   e-mail: richard.kozul-wright@unctad.org   www: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=20295