Editorial
Contents
Study Tour: Cross-Border Cooperation and Development in Border Areas
Workshop: Social Implications of Economic Integration
Expert Forum: Cross-Border Cooperation and Trade Facilitation
Expert Hearing: Port Cooperation in the Pan-Beibu-Gulf Region
Study Tour: Cross-border Economic Cooperation and Free Economic Zones
in a Regional Integrated Environment
Recent Trends in Asian Regionalism
Programme News
Issue No. 4
May 2014
9 May
Roundtable Forum: Occupational
Safety and Health in ASEAN Ports
Bangkok, Thailand
SPD Programme, GIZ
www.sustainableport.org/...
3-6 June
Conference: Plugging into Global
Value Chains - Roles of Trade and
Investment Policy
Shah Alam, Malaysia
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
www.adb.org/...
16-19 June
Conference: Support to Regional
Economic Communities Peer-toPeer Learning 2013/14
Brussels, Belgium
GIZ
Contact REC-PeerLearning@giz.de
19-20 June
Seminar on Transport Cooperation
in NEA
Manzhouli, PR China
Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI)
www.tumenprogramme.org/...
19-21 August
8th China Goes Global Conference
Shanghai, PR China
Shanghai Jiaotong University,
KEDGE Business School
www.chinagoesglobal.org/...
17-18 September
Fourth GTI Trade Facilitation
Committee and International
Seminar
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI)
www.tumenprogramme.org/...
Cross-Border Cooperation
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Publications
The following selection of event
documentations and background
papers are available for download:
Second Expert Forum: Cross
Border Cooperation & Trade
Facilitation
Expert Hearing: Port Cooperation
in the Pan-Beibu Gulf Region
Background Paper: Shanghai Free
Trade Zone
Workshop: Project Management of
Cross-Border Cooperation
Expert Hearing: Cross Border
Cooperation & Trade Facilitation
Workshop: Social Implications of
Economic Integration
Economic Policy Dialogue:
Urbanisation and Inclusive Growth
Workshop: Managing CrossBorder Labour Migration
This recent piece by Peter van Bergeijik points out the importance of reputation
management for developing countries. This includes increasing their trading and
investment partners as well as increasing their national quality infrastructure.
Cooperation between countries can enhance the trade performance of a country
to a high degree.This is especially important in light of rising South-South trade
and growing trade relations among neighbouring developing countries. Bergeijik
quotes the PR China, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam
as examples of efficient international cooperation efforts to overcome existing
hurdles for trade and investments.
To access the full article, please visit: www.ecdpm.org/...
World Bank
Persistently high growth rates of GDP have resulted in higher demand for freight
transport in Viet Nam. As the countrys road network is already experiencing
capacity constraints and due to substantially rising environmental costs of road
use for freight movements, waterborne freight transport bears great potential.
This study by the World Bank identifies challenges associated with an expansion
of waterborne transport as well as develops a strategy to successfully
overcome these barriers.
Download the study here: www.openknowledge.worldbank.org/... (PDF 4,3 MB)
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Editor(s):
Magnus C. M. Brod, magnus.brod@giz.de
Contributors:
Lisa Brckner, lisa.brueckner@giz.de
Magnus C. M. Brod, magnus.brod@giz.de
Stefan Hein, esrp-rci@giz.de
Torben Niemeier, rci-asia2@giz.de
Susann Kubisch, susann.kubisch@giz.de