Reunión de Consultas Políticas en Buenos Aires entre Argentina y Tailandia

Relations between Latin America and Asia Pacific are on a good foot. While the commercial landscape is auspicious, economic and cultural ties are still certain shortcomings that prevent deep integration. That was one of the conclusions reached by the experts of academic seminar "Trade relations between Latin America and Asia Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities" organized by ECLAC in conjunction with the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and the American Association of Integration (LAIA) on August 21, 2013. Let's review below the main ideas of the appointment.

The seminar held in the hall of the ECLAC Celso Furtado, brought together directors from Asia Pacific multilateral agencies such as the ADC integration, LAIA and the Economic Commission for Asia United Nations (UNESCAP) in addition to academics from various Asian universities and Latin America.

On occasion we analyzed some common features within the process of integration between the two regions, emphasizing the most important economic, commercial and cultural center in order to account for the achievements so far and the areas that need to be deepened to achieve better future results.

Among the various positions highlighted Juan Carlos Elorza, CEO of Public Policy at the CAF, who noted that it needs to strengthen the few links between the two regions and establish dynamic depth study in areas such as social vision and sustainable economic development .

"In Asia we can learn many of these efforts will allow us to better integration.

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Another intervention made ??at the seminar was to Mia Mikic, chief of the Division of Trade Policy Analysis and Investment of the Economic Commission for Asia, who from a New Zealand referred to the benefits of South-South trade.

"Developing Countries found in other similar countries best exchange opportunities with traditional powers, both for its diversity as well as by the existence of policies to overcome poverty will always stimulate the economy and strengthen the agreements, "he said.

Finally, Won Ho Kim, dean of the School of Advanced International Study of Hankuk University of the Republic of Korea, presented from an academic perspective the main paradigms that have defined integration policy in South Korea, claiming that since 1997 Your country is in a process of opening to the agreements in order to get more business opportunities.

But when closer interregional relations, the academic added that "the Korean model is structured based on the question of what are the economic consequences of the agreements, taking into account the diversity and endogenous growth models, not only to business logic through win-win ".

In the news link you can access for the video interviews as part of the note.