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Ensuring Effective Sustainable Development in the South:Will Rio+20 be Up to the Task?, Rio de Janeiro, 20 June 2012
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This side-event aims to explore the key issues at stake in Rio+20 from the developing countries’ perspective. Experts from the South Centre will lead discussions on this.

1100-1230h, 20 June 2012, Wednesday

 Room T-6, RioCentro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Speakers on the Programme 

Topics
Speakers
 
 
The Key Issues at Stake in Rio, and Will the Summit Resolve Them?
Dr. Martin Khor
Executive Director, South Centre
Former Director, Third World Network
 
 
The Global Economic Crisis:  Is Sustainable Development Threatened?  What Should be Done?
Dr. Yilmaz Akyuz
Chief Economist, South Centre
Former Chief Economist, UNCTAD
 
 
Reforming the IPR System to Enable Technology Transfer for Sustainable Development
Dr. Carlos Correa
Special Adviser on Trade, Intellectual Property, and Development, South Centre
Professor of Law, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
 
Will There be Funds for Sustainable Development? Where will the Money Come From?
Dr. Manuel Montes
Special Adviser on Financing for Development, South Centre
Former Chief, Development Strategies and Policy Analysis, UNDESA
 
 

Moderator:
 
Atty. Vicente Paolo Yu III, Programme Coordinator, South Centre