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SIA in the Trade Negociation Process

SIA in the Trade Negociation Process. A Challenge for Research and Development Laurence Tubiana Sustra Network & IDDRI, Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales. Trade negociations in WTO. Contradictions in the process

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SIA in the Trade Negociation Process

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  1. SIA in the Trade Negociation Process A Challenge for Research and Development Laurence Tubiana Sustra Network & IDDRI, Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales

  2. Trade negociations in WTO • Contradictions in the process • Specialization / extension of domains Trip’s, Investments, Services … • Single undertaking • Far reaching consequences, uncertainty Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  3. Growing questions and discontent • Challenging legitimacy of the negotiation process • Challenging the final economic efficiency of specific measures • Contest of the equity : priorities and final outcomes • What are the ends of liberalization ? Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  4. Sustainable development as the common objective of liberalization • SD : an arbitrage between sometimes competing objectives • Need to recognize pluralism and diversity in choices • SIA : an attempt to internalize SD in trade negociation Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  5. Why SIA in trade debate? Growing recognition of : • Interactions environmental & social issues / trade • Uncertainty • Unbalanced international institutionnal architecture Need to integrate SD objectives in trade Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  6. SIA : policy tool or policy process • SIA as a policy tool : evaluation of policies and measures • Problem of criterias determination • SIA as a policy process • Shared diagnosis • Common identification of issues • Learning process • Depending of nature and quality of participation Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  7. Perspectives : how to go forward in the liberalization process • Need to recognize diversity of development models and collective preferences as a precondition of any sustainable liberalization • SD : building legitimate institutions and preserving specificities Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  8. Commonobjectives • Different collective preferences but commons objectives : common goods and fundamental human rights • MDG’s and Johannesbourg objectives: access to water, energy food security, health and education, protection of biodiversity Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  9. Challenge for research • From impact assesment of policies to assessment of collectives preferences • Research on scenarios and alternatives • Study of the interactions of different development models • Measure of positive and negative externalities of national and regional collective preferences Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  10. Challenge for research • New interdisciplinary programs to identify new economic tools • To analyse legitimacy of collective preferences Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

  11. Changing negociation methods • SIA as a permanent reassessment process of trade agreements • Agreement on medicines as a model for the future: negotiating trade policies in a development perspective • From a coodination through rule making towards a coordination through objectives for coherent global policies Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003

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