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RIS Launches World Trade and Development Report President Of Vol. 12 No. 1 January 2016 — Policy research shaping the global development agenda President of Liberia at RIS FIDC-RIS organised a special address on ‘India-Africa Partnership and Sustainable Development Goals’ by H.E. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Hon'ble President, Republic of Liberia in New Delhi on 31 October 2015. Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS made welcome remarks. Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, welcoming the President said that we were immensely glad to have H.E. President Sirleaf who has H.E. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Hon'ble President, Republic of Liberia delivering the special provided intellectual and policy address. leadership on issues relating to research programme engaging Goals (SDGs) whereby possible the MDGs and now the SDGs. He lawmakers, policymakers, academia implementation strategies are also also mentioned that RIS and UN and the civil society in India on being explored. in India have launched a major the Sustainable Development Continued on page 12... RIS Launches World Trade and Development Report With the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, the efforts for trade liberalisation and strengthening of multilateral trading arrangement came to a full circle. What started in 1995 with graduation from GATT to WTO had come to a point where several challenges for multilateralism were clearly discernible. Signing of TPP is an unprecedented development in the annals of the economic history of the world. Along with TPP Mrs. Suchitra Durai, High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Kenya releasing the ‘RIS World another three mega regionals, viz. Trade and Development Report: Mega Regionals, WTO and New Issues.’ Also seen in picture are (from left to right) Prof. S.K. Mohanty, RIS; Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS; and Dr. TTIP, RCEP and FTAAP, have Carlos Correa, Special Adviser, South Centre, Geneva. made significant headway in their negotiations, and are likely to be grouping in terms of their content, issues) such as competition policy, formed in the coming years. These scope and impact on the global labour standards, environmental four regional groupings are distinct economy. Legitimising behind the issues, government procurement, from those of other existing regional border issues (often called new Continued on page 14... RISRIS DiaryDiary JanuaryJanuary 2016 1 New Research Studies and Initiatives South-South Cooperation: Global Governance of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Issues and Emerging Trade and Investment Russian Federation (EAEU), on the other, a Joint Study Group (JSG) has Challenges Issues and G-20 been established to recommend the RIS, with the support of Ministry Trade and investment are approach and process for economic of External Affairs, Government not an end by themselves but cooperation engagements of India of India, organised the Conference important instruments to achieve of Southern Providers in New with this Economic Union. Given developmental objectives such as Delhi on 15-16 April 2013. The India’s recent economic dynamism Conference was seen as a timely employment generation, poverty as well as the economic performance and transformational event. As a alleviation and so on. Trade and of the members of the grouping, it follow-up of this, conference on investment flows have assumed appears imperative to engage with South-South Cooperation: Issues and much greater importance in the them in a comprehensive way Emerging Challenges (Delhi II) is era of globalisation and enhanced including in trade in goods, trade being organised on 10-11 March 2016 mutual interdependence across in services and investment, as in New Delhi. This conference would nations and regions. Given the well as in other areas of economic discuss modalities for enhancing nature of these flows and the cooperation. The need for the our collective understanding on the bilateral, regional and multilateral study also stems from the fact that dynamics of SSC. Due to the diversity policy regimes and institutions, this region has had much stronger of SSC approaches, SSC is meant that govern such flows have only economic linkages in the past and differently in different contexts. highlighted tremendous governance that can be strengthened due to Broadly speaking, South-South gap, having important global the imperatives of energy security trade, investment and development implications that require high level as well. RIS has been approached cooperation are all components policy attention. Since trade and by the Ministry of Commerce of SSC which together contribute investment have significant growth and Industry, GoI to serve on the to a larger development compact. and developmental implications, it JSG and conduct the study. RIS (For further details please contact is important to ensure high level participated in the First Meeting of Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi at global attention so that overall the Joint Feasibility Study Group [email protected]) global economic performance (JFSG) held in Moscow in July through national level successful 2015. (For further details please IBSA: Visiting Fellowships outcomes could be ensured. contact Prof. Ram Upendra Das at at RIS For this to happen, research is [email protected]) In association with the Ministry underway to prepare a blue-print of of External Affairs, Government certain action points that need to be Study on Emergence of of India, RIS offers IBSA Visiting considered by the G-20 leaders. RIS ‘Blue Economy’ Fellowships to two research has been actively taking part in the The concept of Blue Economy scholars from each of the two other G-20 processes and participated in is emerging as a new narrative partners countries of India under the G-20 meetings held in Istanbul in on productive and sustainable February 2015; Antalya in November the IBSA Dialogue Forum - Brazil engagement with the vast 2015 and Beijing in December 2015. and South Africa. The programme development opportunities that (For further details please contact focusses on development of an oceanic resources offer. The Prof. Ram Upendra Das at upendra@ effective multilateral institutional important sectors of Blue Economy framework to coordinate, support ris.org.in) are fisheries, sea-minerals including and enable sustainable development oil & gas, ports & shipping, marine in coherent and integral manner. It Joint Feasibility Study tourism, marine biotechnology, is opened for Research scholars deep-sea mining, and transport and academicians from South on Free Trade Agreement Africa and Brazil having profound (FTA) between the Eurasian & logistics. It is believed that by undertaking Blue Economy interest in carrying out deeper Economic Union (EAEU) research towards the realisation of initiative countries would be able to the aims and objectives of the IBSA and India achieve high economic growth and maintain healthy balance between Dialogue process in the partner Recognising the potential resource use and its renewability. countries. (For further details please complementarity between India However, there are few attempts to contact Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi on the one hand and the Economic estimate the gains of Blue Economy. at [email protected]) Union of Armenia, Belarus, 2 RIS Diary January 2016 New Research Studies and Initiatives This assumes importance in the awareness and participation at an In 2016, RIS shall intensify the light of the fact that the world early date towards drawing up a discourse around the social and faces the challenge of restoring roadmap for the implementation economic dimensions of the SDGs a healthy balance between the of relevant targets in India as and shall deepen the engagement ambition of high economic growth enshrined in this agenda. RIS is also on means of implementation of and the goal of environmental collaborating with key international the SDGs covering global, national sustainability. With the launch of think tanks and organisations in and sub-national issues. Regional SDGs, concerns are emerging in India on specific issues related to consultations involving the favour of sustainable use of natural the SDGs to strengthen knowledge principal actors at the level of the resources especially in the context partnerships. states, including the governments, of growth-centric development would be undertaken to ensure Under this work programme, in ownership of the SDGs in coherence models. In fact the oceans and the its first phase, RIS organised a series ocean related activities are viewed with national and state level welfare of Consultations on SDGs in India programmes and to promote as the greatest source of growth in ahead of the formal adoption of the the post-recession period. In view action oriented approach towards Post 2015 Development Agenda in developmental targets as enshrined of the importance of the subject September 2015 by the UN General for both national and regional in the SDGs. Special care would be Assembly. Two consultations taken to engage with states at both development, RIS has launched a were organised on financing for ends of the spectrum and hence comprehensive study on this topic. development, prior to the UN strengthen national level policy With support from the Ministry of mandated Third International understanding on cooperative External Affairs, Government of Conference on Financing for federalism as an instrument to attain India, RIS also organised the First Development (FfD3) at Addis the SDGs. Finally, RIS would come IORA Blue Economy Dialogue at Ababa, Ethiopia that preceded the up with a substantive publication Goa,
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