Center for Global Development Experts to Offer Insight Into Upcoming World Trade Organization Meetings in Cancun

9/2/2003

From: Andrew Stober of the Center for Global Development, 202-416-0705 or astober@cgdev.org

News Advisory:

WHAT:

Center for Global Development trade experts offer insights into the upcoming World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun.

With tentative agreements in place on agricultural trade reform and pharmaceutical access for poor countries, momentum is building for the member states of the WTO to deliver positive outcomes for developing countries in Cancun. In advance of the meetings, Center for Global Development (CGD) experts will offer a background briefing for media.

The experts will address the substantive links between trade policies and development and field questions from the press. Topics to be covered include:

-- Trade, growth, and poverty reduction

-- The impact of rich country protectionism on the poor

-- The politics and potential impact of recent agreements on essential medicines for poor countries and agricultural trade liberalization

-- The bargaining power of developing countries at WTO negotiations

-- Labor standards in developing countries

WHO:

-- Nancy Birdsall, president, CGD

-- William Cline, senior fellow CGD and author of forthcoming "Trade Policy and Global Poverty"

-- Kimberly Elliot, research fellow CGD and author of "Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization"

-- Steven Radelet, senior fellow CGD and former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia

WHEN:

-- Thursday, September 4, 9 to 10 a.m.

WHERE:

-- Center for Global Development, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 301

Media Contact and RSVP -- Andrew Stober, astober@cgdev.org, 202-416-0705