| Event: |
Workshop on A New Economic Agenda for a Post-Crisis World |
| Date: |
4 November 2009 |
| Time: |
9:00 am to 5.00 pm |
| Venue: |
Marina Mandarin Singapore, Taurus Ballroom, Level 1 (6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square Singapore 039594) (Location Map) |
Event Info:
The RSIS Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations (TFCTN) and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at University of Warwick are jointly organizing a conference on A New Economic Agenda for a Post-Crisis World. The morning session will focus on trade architecture and is entitled The Rise of Minilateralism and the expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The afternoon session is the Asia launch of the 2nd Warwick Commission entitled International Financial Reform: Beyond Architecture, Towards Building Consensus.
Morning Theme: The Rise of Minilateralism and the expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
The pressures for protectionism have been growing in the wake of the prolonged economic downturn. In spite of the incentives for closing markets, talks are gearing up for a new type of free trade agreement, one that will knit together three continents. The original 2004 agreement between Singapore, New Zealand, Brunei and Chile may expand with the inclusion of the United States, Australia, Peru and Vietnam. A successful TPP agreement could represent renewed momentum for trade expansion in this region in a time of crisis. Whether it will do so depends on the amount of trade openess in the agreement as well as the motives and incentives for potential member states such as the United States and Australia. The push toward a larger minilateral or plurilateral grouping could also represent a solution to the "noodle bowl" effect in the Asia-Pacific region of unscrambling overlapping bilateral and preferential free trade deals.
Speakers:
- Professor Ann Capling
- Dr. Deborah Elms
- Assoc. Prof. Henry Gao
- Professor John Ravenhill
Afternoon Theme: International Financial Reform: Beyond Architecture, Towards Building Consensus
The current international financial crisis asks us to rethink our answer to an important question: what are our financial systems for? The Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform provides an answer by bringing together a range of world-class economists, political scientists, and lawyers to explore how we can best enhance international financial stability through regulation that is sensitive to variations in what countries want from their financial systems. The Commission has identified key reforms for a well-regulated financial system. Among these reforms is a stress on dealing with boom-bust cycles, introducing macro-prudential regulation, recognising the need for a better allocation of risks among financial institutions, dealing with issues of regulatory capture, and bolstering national rules with international coordination to promote international financial stability. The Commission's report will be released in November 2009.
Speakers:
- Dr. Heribert Dieter
- Professor Richard Higgott
- Professor Leonard Seabrooke
- Dr. Eleni Tsingou
Please click here for a copy of the Conference Report
About TFCTN:
The Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations (TFCTN) is a policy research centre at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. The Centre is dedicated to improving the process of international economic negotiations, with a particular focus on increasing capabilities and access for developing states in the Asia-Pacific. The Centre uses rigorous empirical research to create new ideas and to generate informed debate leading to practical policy alternatives for improving global negotiations on trade and economic issues.
The Centre also conducts a wide range of activities designed to increase capabilities and build sustainable capacity for effective participation in negotiations for states in the Asia-Pacific region. The audience for these events includes not only a wide range of government officials but also business leaders, policy advocates, academics and researchers, members of the media, and the wider public in Singapore and beyond.
About
CSGR:
Inaugurated in 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick is the largest academic centre in Europe dealing with this subject area.
After being funded by the ESRC for its first ten years, CSGR is now part of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS).
CSGR is a multidisciplinary project. Its staff and associates are drawn from the fields of Anthropology, Business, Economics, Law, Politics and Sociology. Likewise, the Centre’s seminars, conferences and other projects generally draw participants from several disciplines.
The research agenda of CSGR highlights issues of the definition, measurement, impacts, and policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation
Much of the Centre’s research concentrates on questions such as comparative regionalisms, the political economy of global and regional finance and trade, civil society in globalisation and regionalisation, and security issues in globalisation and regionalisation. CSGR research spans all regions of the world, as well as relations between them.
