Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Environment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation, Second session

The meeting will focus on adapting industrial policies to a digital world for economic diversification and structural transformation. It will address the issues underscored in subparagraphs 38 (a), 76 (a) and 76 (b) of the Nairobi Maafikiano.

The meeting will discuss, in particular, how the diffusion of digital technologies shifts traditional boundaries of individual industries and those between industry and services.

It will focus on how policymakers can adapt industrial policies that they have pursued to date, in order to harness the potential of the digital world for economic diversification, structural transformation and greater value addition. Finally, it will examine the opportunities offered by South-South and triangular cooperation in this context.

Contributions from Experts

Experts are encouraged to prepare and submit to the meeting brief papers (5-12 pages) related to one or more of the issues contained in the provisional agenda, which will be available on the UNCTAD website. These papers will be made available to the meeting in the form and language in which they are received. They should be sent by 2 March 2018 to : joerg.mayer@unctad.org