Latin America and Caribbean: Conference on international value chains

Opportunities and challenges for Latin America

San José, Costa Rica - 31 October - 1 November 2012

This meeting aimed to identify practical policy options for Latin American governments in the formulation of their investment promotion strategies with a specific focus on global value chains.

Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican President and Richard Boucher, OECD Deputy Secretary-General, during the opening session of the conference.

Six interactive panels focused on:

The fragmentation of international production: a new global landscape for trade and investment
Global value chains: regional experiences and approaches
Government strategies for enhancing global value chain competitiveness
International value chains, insertion strategies and linkages with the local economy
Trade policy in the context of global value chains
Integrating to the world with talent: the role of human capital in strengthening and enhancing participation in global value chains

This conference brought together policymakers, international experts and other interested stakeholders, from business, think tanks, academia and civil society. Leading international organisations were also represented, including the IADB, IDE-JETRO, ECLAC and the WTO.

Co-organised with the Government of Costa Rica and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), this conference was the third meeting of the Latin America and Caribbean-OECD Investment Initiative.