A high-level meeting to be held at Bangkok´s Hotel Plaza Athenée on 2-3 October will discuss how the competing but interdependent agendas of governments, businesses and civil society in the Asian region can be aligned to develop competitive economies that boost growth and benefit the poor. Forty Ministers, CEOs and opinion leaders from across Asia will attend.
Participants will consider some of the most pressing issues facing Asia today, such as sustaining successful exports in the face of intense competition from new economies, strengthening regional trade blocs, and identifying where public-private partnerships work and where they don´t. How media and government can mutually support each other, and how corporate social responsibility can be realistically encouraged, will be on the agenda as well.
The meeting is being organized by the UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development, which helps countries to integrate successfully into the global economy, and the International Institute for Trade and Development, Bangkok. One broad aim of the programme is to support the eighth Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations, developing global partnerships for development. Other regional seminars will follow in Africa and Latin America.
For more information: www.globalprogramme.org/governanceasia .
