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2020 Meeting of the Inter-American Competitiveness Network (RIAC) Re-Defining the Competitiveness Agenda in the Americas: Imperatives for a Post-COVID Recovery

  • 11/24/2020 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Event date: 11/24/2020 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Export event

Persons in charge of the presentations:

Hon. María Alejandra Muñoz, Vice President of Ecuador as Chair Pro Tempore of RIAC
Luis Almagro, OAS Secretary General
Kim Osborne, Executive Secretary for Integral Development Organization of American States
Daniel Legarda, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Production, Foreign Commerce, Investment and Fisheries
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Ministers and High Authorities of Competitiveness are invited to put forward ideas, solutions, and proposals to identify imperatives for a post-COVID recovery.

The Meeting aims to set the foundations for a new regional competitiveness agenda in the Americas to be launched at the upcoming XI Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF) scheduled for February 2021. This new regional competitiveness agenda will include actionable recommendations, focus on economic recovery, and be anchored in good practices and regional cooperation.

As part of the Meeting, RIAC’s work and results will be featured as well as the RIAC Covid-19 Ideas Accelerator.

The meeting is convened by the Government of Ecuador as RIAC’s Chair Pro Tempore and the OAS as RIAC’s Technical Secretariat.