Capacity Building Workshop for Trade Research

Capacity Building Workshop for Trade Research
"Trade Flows and Trade Policy Analysis"
Jointly organized by WTO, ESCAP/ARTNeT and BFTI
Date: 7-11 October, 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PROGRAMME
Day 1
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09.00 – 09:45
Welcome Ceremony
• Remarks from representative form World Trade Organization
• Remarks from representative form ARTNeT/ ESCAP
• Remarks from representative form BFTI
• Remarks from representative form Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh
Coffee Break
09:45 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:30
Session 1
• Introduction to the workshop and its objectives
11:30 – 13:00
Session 2
• Introduction to Stata
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
Session 3
• Analyzing trade flows
15:30 – 15:45
Break
15:45 – 17:15
Session 4
• Exercises
Day 2
09:00 – 10:30
Session 1
• Analyzing trade policy (Part I)
10:30 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2
• Analyzing trade policy (Part I)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30
Session 3
• NTMs and analysis of their impacts
14:30 – 14:45
Break
14:45 – 17:00
Session 4
• Exercises
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Day 3
09:00 – 10:30
Session 1
• Firms and international trade
10:30 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2
• Firm-level research using the World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00
Session 3
• Econometric methodology and Stata applications to address research
questions with firm-level data
15:00 – 15:15
Break
15:15 – 17:00
Session 4
• Exercises
Day 4
09:00 – 10:30
Session 1
• Gravity equation (Part I: Theory)
10:30 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2
• Gravity equation (Part I: Estimation)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30
Session 3
• Demonstration of ARTNeT online gravity tool
• Using ESCAP/WB Trade Cost Database
14:30 – 14:45
Break
14:45 – 17:00
Session 4
• Exercises
Day 5
09:00 – 11:00
Session 1
• Using simulation tools for partial equilibrium trade policy analysis
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 2
• Presentation of the Trade in value added database
12:15 – 14:15
Lunch and Prayer break
14:15 – 16:15
Session 3
• Discussion with participants on research projects
16:15 – 17:15
Closing and Certificate giving Ceremony
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Note:
The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and
the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada is an open regional network of
research and academic institutions specializing in international trade policy and facilitation issues.
Network members currently include 40 leading national trade research and academic institutions from
as many developing countries from East, South and South-East Asia and the Pacific. The Trade and
Investment Division of UNESCAP is the Secretariat of ARTNeT, and operates through a grant from
IDRC. WTO, as a core network partner, provides substantive and financial support to the network. Visit
www.artnetontrade.org for details.
The Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI) is a non-profit research and training institution built on
the concept of a public-private partnership (PPP) between the Ministry of Commerce (MoC), People's
Republic of Bangladesh and the private sector. It is devoted to research, training, policy advocacy and
supporting both the government and private sectors in business and trade related issues. The creation
of the BFTI as a PPP was a ground-breaking and pioneering initiative in Bangladesh. The Vision of the
BFTI is to develop as an internationally reputed institute for trade policy research, and a centre of
excellence for education and training of the highest standard on trade and business related subjects.
The Government of Bangladesh with the financial and technical assistance from the EU under the
Bangladesh Trade Policy Support Programme has recently taken initiative to further strengthening the
BFTI as a prime think tank of trade and economics of the country. Visit www.bfti.org.bd for details.
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