WTI–INCAE Business School Programme on Regional Economic Integration

The INCAE–WTI Programme on Regional Economic Integration, delivered in partnership with the World Bank and the support of the Government of Spain, covers many of the most important and emerging topics in international trade regulation facing Latin-American countries. Mastering the economic impacts, legal principles, and political feasibility of trade regulation is a highly interdisciplinary challenge. This programme is co-taught by many of the world’s leading practitioners, drawn from the fields of economics, law, international political economy and business administration. Participants will learn to blend the policy aspects of trade with thorough legal interpretation, economic analysis and business perspectives, while establishing contacts with fellow professionals and faculty from all over the world.

The programme is structured in four, non-consecutive, weekly modules, starting in January 2011. Topics covered include the fundamental principles of international trade regulation, new frontiers in services and investment rule-making, the growing relevance of competition policy, new challenges in agricultural trade liberalization, the increasing links between trade remedies and climate change mitigation, cutting-edge research and policy perspectives on non-tariff barriers, as well as key challenges in commercial diplomacy. While most participants will register for the full programme, the weekly modules can be attended on a flexible, “à la carte”, basis in order to accommodate a wide range of training needs and interests.