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Debating industrial policy: The Sustainable Trade Index 2024 launch panel
Event Details
24 October 2024 | 5PM (SGT) / 11AM (CET)
The 2024 Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index will be published on Tuesday, 22 October. The Hinrich Foundation and IMD will hold a joint panel on the provenance and consequences of the global resurgence of industrial policy on Thursday, 24 October, to mark the index’s launch. Mark your diaries.
Can industrial policy spur national resilience?
The third edition of the Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index, to be launched on 22 October, poses a fundamental question for the future of trade: As nations race to achieve resilience, how will the opposing demands of geopolitical security and global economic integration meet? Industrial policy – the collective term for a broad range of government support – is centuries old and has returned in full force as superpower competition, war, and COVID-19 stir governments to seek geoeconomic independence. But the new fragmentation carries old warnings: it is not the failure to achieve industrial policy, but its success that may be the undoing of global development.
Join IMD’s Christos Cabolis, Simon Evenett, and the Hinrich Foundation’s Deborah Elms in a panel moderated by the Foundation’s Chuin Wei Yap, as they plumb the sustainability of trade in a waning era of comparative advantage.
Speakers:
- Christos Cabolis: Chief Economist, IMD World Competitiveness Center
- Simon Evenett: Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy, IMD
- Deborah Elms: Head of Trade Policy, Hinrich Foundation
Moderator:
- Chuin Wei Yap: Program Director, International Trade Research, Hinrich Foundation
Watch this space for registration details.
