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The Meeting was held in Caracas from September 1 to 2. The Seminar was thought as a consultation fora among ministers and high level officers responsible for finance and trade sector from different countries of the region, as well as experts of international and regional intergubermental organizations, academics and civil society organizations. The objective was to debate the effects of the global economic crisis on the international trade structure and its relation with the world financial sector as well as the impacts of these effects to Latin American and the Caribbean.

The Metting was organized jointly by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Hemispheric Working Group on Trade and Finance Linkages.

The main objectives of the meeting were the following:

1. To evaluate the role of the trade structures and its relation with the finance sector, within the framework of the impact of the global crisis in Latin American and the Caribbean countries.

2. To deepen on integrated approaches for designing policies for trade, macroeconomics and finance, both domestically and internationally.

3. To develop recommendations that take into account the integrated approaches of these policies in response to the global economic crisis.

-> On SELA website are available the presentations of the event (some of them in Spanish language).

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