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MIZORAM UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Tanhril, Aizawl - 796 009

UNCTAD-DFID-GOI sponsored Summer School in Mizoram University

Department of Economics, Mizoram University(MZU) organised Summer School on Modeling of Issues of Trade, Development and Globalisation, sponsored by UNCTAD-DFID-GOI., under Project on Strategies and Preparedness for Trade and Globalisation, from 6^th May to 2^nd June 2008, covering 28 days. The Governor of Mizoram inaugurated the Programme on 6^th May, 2008 at the University Campus, Tanhril.

The project seeks to strengthen human and institutional capacity for enhancing trade related research amongst universities and individual researchers and also develop network of universities and individual researchers to undertake quality research on trade, WTO and Globalisation, providing basic inputs to the government. Mizoram University is one of the four universities in country selected by UNCTAD India Programme, to implement the Project.

The Summer School, one of the activities under the Project, focused on trade issues under multilateral trading system and empirical methodology for doing trade related research. Participants, 25 in all, include 4 university teachers, 12 college teachers and 9 research scholars. Participants are from Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam/Meghalaya & Mizoram. Faculty members from Management and Commerce Department under MZU, Mizoram Civil Service Probationers who are currently undergoing training programme, state officials from Planning, Trade & Commerce, Agriculture also participated.

18 resource persons were drawn from Planning Commission, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance (GOI), UNCTAD India, Centad, ICRIER, IIT (G), CDS, universities etc.and 2 from the University itself.

Participants undertake research project under the programme. Two preliminary sessions were held under expert guidance.

Mechanism for evaluation of the entire programme and its contents, resource persons, and participants has been introduced.

Name of Resource Persons & Areas of Specialization

Sl. No.	Name of Resource Persons	Areas of Specializations
1	Dr. K.N.Selvaraj Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore	Trade Liberalization : Modeling the Impact on Agriculture
2	Prof. Man Mohan Krishna University of Allahabad,	TRIMS and GATS
3	Mr. Sanjay Kumar Commissioner of Income Tax GOI	Overview of SPS/TBT/TRIPS
4	Dr. Saikat Sinha Roy Jadavpur University	Applied International Trade Measurement Indices & Econometric Method
5	Dr. S. Borbora IIT Guwahati,	WTO Agreement on TRIPS/ WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture
6	Prof. M.P. Bezbaruah Gauhati University	Indo-Myanmar trade/Look East Policy and its prospect for North East India/ Trade and Environment.
7	Mr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna Director, Regional and Multilateral Trade Relations Division, Department of Commerce, GOI	India’s engagement with Free Trade Agreement– Relevance to North East States
8	Prof Khan Masood Ahmad Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi	Time Series Econometrics
9	Dr Vijayamohanan Pillai CDS, Trivandrum Kerala	Panel Data Econometrics
10	Dr. Shahid Ahmed Economists UNCTAD India Programme,	Rule-based regime in the WTO & Modeling Trade Effects using WITS-SMART model
11	Bibin Menon Ministry of Commerce	Trade Classification/Tariffs/WTOs implication for NER
12	Prof. Rajat Acharya Jadavpur University	Trade Empirics
13	Abhijit Das Deputy Project Coordinatior, UNCTAD, India	Doha’s round of negotiation
14	Srivastulu JNU	Econometric Software-Eview & Stata 10
15	Prof. Keya Sengupta Assam Univeristy, Silchar	Trade and human development
16	Kasturi Das Centre for Trade and Development, New Delhi	An Overview of Non-Barriers to Trade (NBT)
17	Vandana Agarwal Director (Infrastructure) Planning Commission, GOI	DOHA round of Agriculture Negotiations
18	Dr. Arpita Mukherjee ICRIER, New Delhi	Service negotiations under WTO
19	Prof Thangchungnunga Mizoram University
20	Prof. A.K. Agarwal Mizoram University

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