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Roundtable

Subsidies, trade and international cooperation

Reflections on the IMF, OECD, World Bank and WTO staff report

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When

31 May 2022

16:00 - 17:30 CEST

Where

Online

Zoom link will be sent upon registation

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A recent paper prepared by the staff of the IMF, OECD, World Bank and WTO calls on governments to cooperate more on subsidies with possibly harmful international effects. Panelists in this webinar will reflect on the key issues identified in the report and reflect on possible actions to address subsidy-related spillover concerns.

Managing the international spillover effects of national subsidy programmes has become a prominent agenda item for governments, firms and civil society. Subsidies are widely used to pursue a broad range of policy objectives and take many different forms. WTO rules on subsidisation and instruments to countervail adverse economic effects of foreign subsidies are widely regarded as outdated and requiring reform. 

A recent paper prepared by the staff of the IMF, OECD, World Bank and WTO calls on governments to cooperate more on subsidies with possibly harmful international effects. Panelists in this webinar will reflect on the key issues identified in the report and reflect on possible actions to address subsidy-related spillover concerns.  

This event will be recorded.

Contact(s):

Mia Saugman

Scientific Organiser(s):

Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute)

Moderator(s):

Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute)

Speaker(s):

Simon Evenett (University of St Gallen and Global Trade Alert)

Anabel Gonzalez (Deputy Director General, WTO; non-resident senior fellow Petersen Institute for International Economics (on leave) and former Minister of Trade, Costa Rica)

Marten van den Berg (Ambassador, Kingdom of Netherlands to India, Nepal, and Bhutan; former Director-General International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands)

Professor André Sapir (Breugel and Université Libre de Bruxelles-ECARES)