The Multi-year Expert Meeting on Promoting Economic Integration and Cooperation will open at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 14 April 2016, in Room XXVI of the Palais des Nations.
Background and purpose of the meeting
The fourth session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting will be held in accordance with the terms of reference approved by the Bureau of the Trade and Development Board. The objective of this session is to discuss how to improve all forms of cooperation and partnership for trade and development with a view to accomplishing internationally agreed development goals. In particular, it will focus on identifying how developing countries can collaboratively build capacity to weather economic crises, ensure macroeconomic stability and enhance long-term resilience in ways that generate inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
Timely and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals by developing and transition economies warrants a supportive external economic environment. However, the effects of the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession on trade, financial flows, investment, official development assistance and migration continue to reverberate throughout the developing economies. Further, the recent decline in capital inflows, external earnings and fiscal revenues will threaten the development outlook for years to come. These dynamics critically affect the capabilities of developing countries to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals, such as accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth, ending poverty, curbing hunger and disease, and building resilience...
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