São Paulo – The Trade and Development Council, the top organisation at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), should meet this week and next in Geneva, Switzerland. At the opening of the event, on Monday (12), there should be talks about the “systemic weaknesses” and imbalances of the global economy.
There will be a panel about the “volatility of capital and development” with the participation of Ebrahem Patel, the minister of Economic Development of South Africa, Carlos Márcio Bicalho Cozendey, secretary of International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Brasil, Gilbert Terrier, deputy director of the for the Western Hemisphere at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Sergio Chodos, director of the Argentine Central Bank.
On Wednesday, according to Unctad, the director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy, should give a presentation about the evolution of the international trade system.
*Translated by Mark Ament
