This meeting, organized by the UNCTAD Secretariat, will address: trends and salient features of regulatory and institutional frameworks for infrastructure services, development and trade; the efficiency and effectiveness of these regulatory and institutional frameworks and their interaction with supply capacities, non-trade-related objectives, including universal access policies and trade liberalization; exchange of experiences and best practices for building human capital, and institutional and regulatory frameworks based on sectoral and modal case studies and policy reviews; and trade agreements, regulatory and institutional frameworks and regulatory barriers to exports.  

dates: 14-16 March 2011   venue: Palais des Nations   location: Geneva, Switzerland   contact: Liping Zhang   phone: +41 22 917 0044   e-mail: liping.zhang@unctad.org   www: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=20273