The ITC Executive Forum on National Export Strategy
The Global Debate 2006

Bringing the Poor into the Export Process:
Linkages and Strategic Implications

27 – 30 September 2006

Session Propositions

• 1 st Plenary Session: Export Development and Poverty Reduction: Is There Really a Linkage?
   
• 2 nd Plenary Session: Making Export-Led Poverty Reduction Our Business: The Roles of the Public, Private and Non-Governmental Sectors
  
  
• Planning Session 1: Confirming the Validity of Virtuous Circles and High Profile Options

Breakout Series A: A Virtuous Circle: Export Development, Poverty Reduction and Empowerment

• Getting Started – Is it a Questions of Education or Entrepreneurship?
• A Down-to-Earth Linkage – Export Development, Poverty Reduction and the Land Issue
• Redressing Disadvantage – Export Development, Poverty Reduction and Affirmative Action
• Financial Empowerment – Financing a Suitable Linkage

Breakout Series B: The Reality of High Profile Options

• Export, Poverty and the ‘e’ Dimension
• Greening the Linkage: Is There Really and Environmental Dividend?
• Export, Poverty Reduction and Women – A Missed Opportunity?
• The Hands-On Approach: The Importance of Going Local

• 3 rd Plenary Session: Virtuous Circles and High Profile Options: An Assessment
  
  
• Planning Session 2: Taking a Sectoral or Global Approach

Breakout Series C: Poverty Sensitive Value Chains

• Growing Out of Poverty – Strategic Direction in the Agricultural Sector
• A High-Tech, Low Employment Future in the Export-Oriented Manufacturing Sector – A Correct Conclusion?
• The Poverty Angle of Sun, Sea and Sand – Maximizing Tourism’s Contribution
• Tangible Results from Intangible Business – Strengthening the Linkage within the Service Sector

Breakout Series D: The Effectiveness of On-going Global Initiatives

• Fair Trade – A Development Trap?
• Corporate Social Responsibility – Where Does it Lie?
• South-South Trade – Could It Be a Solution?
  
  
• 4 th Plenary Session: Managing the Linkage: Defining and Effective Framework

• 5 th Plenary Session: Taking a Sectoral or Global Approach
  
  
• 6 th Plenary Session: Charting the Leap from Poverty to Prosperity: Balancing a Pro-Poor Export Strategy with the Competitiveness Imperative
  
  
• 7 th Plenary Session: Where Do We Go from Here?