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2 CICOPS Scholarships. The scholarships are awarded to researchers (and others) from developing countries who would like to come to Pavia for a period of 4 to 10 weeks to carry out joint research with a professor here.

2 Workshop "Deep Integration and North-South Free Trade Agreements - EU Strategy for a Global Economy" (UNU-CRIS, 19-20 June 2008)

This workshop will bring together leading academic and policy experts to analyse the EU´s current trade strategy. The main focus will be on the EU Free Trade Agreements with Asian and African countries including India, ASEAN, South Korea and the EPAs with Sub-Saharan Africa. Key questions for discussion will be how FTAs can help countries to become more competitive, how to increase economic growth and reduce poverty, how to contribute to sustainable development and ensure there is procedural fairness in negotiations. Finally, given the current weakness of the WTO, how can FTAs be embedded in a broader multilateral framework? For full information on the programme, please contact Dr. Brigid Gavin at bgavin@cris.unu.edu

2E-Learning Courses , by UNITAR, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, announce its e-Learning Course on “Fundamentals of Risk Management” which will be conducted from May 12 to June 20, 2008. This online course is designed for participants from both public and private sectors who need a practical introduction to risk management principles, methods and techniques. On their website Registration procedure, fees, comments from past participants and other course details can be viewed.

-Fundamentals of Risk Management (12 May to 20 June 2008)
-Millennium Development Goals and Debt Management (19 May to 27 June 2008)
-Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution-Introductory Course (26 May to 11 July 2008)
-Drafting and Negotiating Clauses of Loan Agreements (2 June to 11 July 2008
-Intellectual Property Policy and Development (9 June to 11 July 2008)
-Fundamentals of Capital Market Development & Regulation (25 August to 3 October, 2008)
-Basic Course on Public Debt Management (8 Sept. to 17 October 2008)
-International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques (8 Sept. to 3 October 2008)
-Understanding International Contracts and Loan Agreements (15 Sept. to 31 October 2008)
-Fundamentals of Corporate Governance (22 Sept. to 17 October 2008)
-Negotiation of Financial Transactions (6 October to 14 Nov. 2008)
-Effective Public Debt Management (13 October to 28 Nov. 2008)
-Debt Rescheduling with the Paris Club (20 October to 28 Nov. 2008)
-Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution-Foundation Course (20 October to 5 Dec, 2008)
-Legal Aspects of Public Debt Management (27 October to Dec. 5, 2008)

2World Bank Institute (WBI)'s course on:

South Asia Capacity Building for Bilateral, Plurilateral and Multilateral Trade
negotiations:

a. Trade Negotiation Techniques
b. Main Issues and Status of Global Negotiations in Service Trade
c. Main Issues in Regional/Bilateral Trade Negotiations in South Asia
d. Main Issues and Status of Global Negotiations on NAMA
e. Main Issues and Status of Global Negotiations in Agriculture Trade

The closing dates for application will be May 13th 2008 for this course.

2E-Learning Course on Export Development and Diversification-The Role of Special Import Regimes, offered on December 17, 2007 and will run for one week

2The World Bank Video Seminar Series on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Nigeria, 15 November 2007

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