Panelist at the High-Level Dialogue on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration

20-21 April 2017
Bangkok, Thailand

IPS Executive Director Dr. Saman Kelegama participated as a panelist at the High-Level Dialogue on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration for Enhancing Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, organized by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), on 20-21 April 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The session focused on the topic ‘Market integration: How to promote it and rationalize it?’ It discussed major obstacles to the movement of goods, services, investment and people across the Asia-Pacific region and the need to support countries’ efforts to develop regional investment regimes, with an appropriate balance between investor rights and host country development needs.