Structural Reform, Services and Logisitics - Building Policy Making Capacity in APEC (Services Workshop)
Funded by AusAID, led by the University of Adelaide, and in partnership with the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), the Indonesian Ministry of Trade will be hosting a workshop on structural reform, services and logistics in February 2012.
The goal of the two-day workshop is to add to the growth of and the degree of integration within and between participating APEC economies through more efficient use of resources in the services sector – especially in infrastructure and logistics – through better practices of policy making in those sectors.
Below is the current schedule (as of January 11, 2012) for the workshop:
Resources
Day 1
- STRI - Nordas
- Roles of Services Sector in Employment and Poverty Alleviation - Damuri
- Services Development Poverty, Employment and Migration - Manning
Day 2
- ZHAO Xiaoyan - Study on Integration of tourism and Commerce
- Study on Integration of Tourism and Commerce - Zhao Xiaoyan
- Regional Bias of Services Trade - Hamanaka
- AIPEG presentation
- Bank ownership and performance - Arifin and Narindra
- China's trade in services - Zhang and Pei
- Employment impact on flight crew wages - Darmawan
- Examining the ASEAN MRA implementation process - Hirawan and Triwidodo
- Impact of telecommunication service liberalization - Hakim, Listiyani and Octavia
- Integration of trade in travel services - Wang, C and Chen
- Policy reform in China's distribution services - Fan
- Retailing services: traditional and modern markets in Indonesia - Meliala
- Under-estimated transport service export - Wang, X
General Resources
- Mattoo & Sauve - Preferential Trade Agreement Policies for Development (Chapter 12)
- Hoekmann & Mattoo - Services Trade Liberalisation and Reform; Re-invigorating International Cooperation
- Roy - Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements; An Expanded Dataset
- Abrenica, Findlay & Lim, Trade in Services and Poverty Reduction
- Journal of World Investment and Trade (12)3, 2011
- Journal of Asian Economics (in press), 2012

