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Globalization
and Regional Economic Cooperation: Management Challenges
Organized by:
The Department of
Business Management of
the University of Calcutta
Call for papers
The Department of Business Management of the University of Calcutta
will organize an international conference during November 25-26,
2006 in Kolkata (Calcutta), India to celebrate the completion of
150 years of the University. Academics, Researchers, Professionals,
Corporate Representatives and others interested in contemporary
regional and multilateral trade issues are encouraged to submit
papers for presentation for the conference. Papers may address (but
not necessarily be confined to) the following sub-themes:
Challenges and opportunities before the less developed countries
in the context of greater trade and economic integration of the
world.
The perceived apprehensions of the less developed countries
regarding the special burdens implied in the WTO negotiations.
Negotiation strategies to overcome these perceived burdens
so that the interests of the less developed countries are firmly
protected in the WTO.
The role of regional groupings in protecting the interests
of the less developed countries.
Case studies of regional cooperation in Industry, Agriculture,
Investment and Finance.
Political Economy of regional trade and outlook for the future.
The submission deadline is August
16, 2006. The Technical Committee will refer papers
and the decision regarding acceptance will be notified by September
30, 2006. Please submit papers to: N. Sen, Department of Business
Management, Calcutta University, Alipore Campus, 1 Reformatory Street,
Kolkata 700027, India, email: cubm_jic@rediffmail.com
Confernece theme
Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth in world trade under
the watchful eyes of the World Trade Organization (WTO). During
the same period bilateral and regional trade agreements (B&RTAs)
in different parts of the world have proliferated enormously. Though
the WTO does not rule out RTAs and indeed appears to encourage them
under Act. XXIV: 12 of GATT and Act. V of GATS, there is a general
belief in some quarters that these agreements reflect a lack of
confidence in the uniform rule-based trading mechanism propounded
by the WTO. It has also been construed as an indirect way of bypassing
some of its more stringent clauses.
The need to bypass stems from the widespread belief that the WTO
has failed to evolve a mechanism by which the benefits of the expansion
of world trade will be equitably distributed among all member nations.
There are two major issues here. Many politically powerful sections
in developed countries who may possibly be adversely affected if
the rules proposed by the WTO are implemented, have succeeded in
convincing their governments that free trade is a zero-sum game
where ‘we loose and they gain’. Secondly, many less
developed countries have expressed the opinion that in the name
of uniform rules the WTO is imposing special burdens on them –
burdens that are directly detrimental to their economic progress.
This has led both sets of countries to search for strategic partners
who would strengthen their bargaining power vis-à-vis their
‘opponents’ leading to long hours of negotiation at
the Ministerial Conferences and mounting skepticism about the WTO’s
future.
The silver lining is that no member country has fundamentally challenged
the basic tenets of the WTO. In spite of the criticism, almost all
of them uniformly view it as a step in the right direction in this
age of globalization. The debate has been limited to formulating
consistent policies that limit the adverse impact of trade liberalization
on sections of populations within countries and to maximize the
benefits especially to the economically weaker nations.
In this backdrop this conference intends to contribute to the raging
controversies within the WTO, the negotiation strategies of the
Less Developed Countries, an evaluation of the effectiveness of
B&RTAs in the WTO era and to suggest, through case studies,
methods of introducing pro-active `change management’ at the
micro-level in tandem with the WTO inspired policy changes at the
national and the international level
Deadlines
Submission Deadline:
August 16, 2006
(full papers including abstracts of not more than 500 words)
Notification to Contributors:
September30, 2006
Announcement of Full Programme:
October 31, 2006
Official web site
To learn further details on the Conference please check the Conference's official
web site.
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