New WTO Issues in Focus: The Digital Economy Challenge in Latin America
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
The Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) is organizing on November 4th, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro a debate on New WTO Issues in Focus: The Digital Economy Challenge in Latin America based on the OCP Policy Center paper Climbing the Global Digital Ladder: Latin America’s Inescapable Trial America by our Senior Fellow, Alfredo Valladao.
Latin American economies are facing two historically defining challenges. First, how to cope with the end of the commodities “super-cycle” and the prospect of a long period of low prices for basic natural resources. After all, raw materials production and semi-industrialized goods encompass most of their comparative advantages. Second, and even more exacting, how to adjust to the present disruptive transition from an old to a new global economic and social model. The 20th century industrial organization is progressively losing its dominant position to 21st century “digital” economy, based on permanent innovation, a pervasive use of information and communications technologies (ICT), and a service-packed consumer-driven organization of production. The 800-pound gorilla question is: where does Latin American societies – and for that matter most developing countries – fit in this new era?
Related publication : Climbing the Global Digital Ladder: Latin America’s Inescapable Trial
Panelists :
- Alfredo Valladao, OCP Policy Center, Sciences Po
- Jorge Arbache, Brazilian Ministry of Planning and Development
- Pedro da Motta Veiga, Centre for Studies in Integration and Development (CINDES)
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