On 25 June, we organized a Digital Conference with the World Bank, ILO, UNCTAD and relevant employer federations on “Economic advocacy for SMEs”, with a particular focus on how to ensure that economic and financial measures are channelled to the most impacted sectorsespecially SME’s.
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AGENDA:
1/ Welcome: Erol Kiresepi, IOE President
2/ Setting the scene:
- Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary General, UNCTAD
- HE. Amb. José Luis Cancela, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the WTO in Geneva, Coordinator of the WTO Informal Working Group on MSMEs
3/ Institutional responses:
- Philipp Hauger, Advisor to Executive Director, World Bank (WB)
- Laurent Maurin, Senior Economist, European Investment Bank (EB)
- Dragan Radic, Head of the Small and Medium Enterprises Unit, International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Rajesh Aggarwal, Chief, Trade Facilitation and Policy for Business, Division of Market Development, International Trade Centre (ITC)
4/Conclusions: Roberto Suarez, IOE Secretary-General
