Public Symposium
10-11 May, 2010
UNCTAD’s Public Symposium, now in its second year, will build on the success of the first symposium by deepening insights from the crises and exploring new development paths.
The symposium will include a round table of eminent persons on the main themes, moderated plenaries and focused group discussions to debate key aspects of new development paths.
The symposium is organized in cooperation with the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) and other partner organizations.
The symposium’s key topics:
- Rethinking global economic governance:
towards trade and financial reforms for enhancing development
The debate will address international policy challenges for sustainable recovery (e.g. new debt crisis, cutbacks on Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), systemic obstacles to national recovery strategies, new financial architectures, recurrent boom and bust cycles) and support to new development paths (policy coherence and coordination, innovative finance, policy space and democratizing economic governance). - Sustainable development strategies
This segment will address inter related challenges facing developing countries to bring about more environmentally sustainable and inclusive growth (e.g. green growth/green development, food and energy security, role of commodities, more employment-intensive growth, a better balance between export-led and domestic consumption-led growth, new approaches to investment strategies, better balance between financial and productive sectors, reduced income inequality) and will discuss the implications for new approaches to meet the MDGs.