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• www.tradeknowledgenetwork.net

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The Goal of the Trade Knowledge Network

• To foster long-term capacity to address the
  complex issues of trade and sustainable
  development in partner-country research
  institutions, governments and the wider policy
  community, including business, academia and
  environment and development NGOs.

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Knowledge Networks

• Consist of groups of expert institutions working
  together on a common concern, strengthening each
  others research and communications capacity,
  sharing knowledge bases and developing solutions
  that are made available for use by others outside
  the network.

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TKN Partner Institutions

• Argentina Centro de Investigationes para la
  Transformación (CENIT)
• Bangladesh North-South University (NSU), The
  World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• Chile Recursos e Investigacisn para el
  Desarrollo Sustentable (RIDES)
• China Chinese Academy of International Trade and
  Economic Cooperation (CAITEC)
• Costa Rica International Centre of Economic
  Policy for Sustainable Development (CINPE)
• Pakistan Sustainable Development Policy
  Institute (SDPI)
• South Africa Trade and Industrial Policy
  Strategies (TIPS)
• Vietnam Ministry of Fisheries (MOFI)/ Ministry
  of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE)/
  The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

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Trade Knowledge Network utilizes three
inter-related objectives to achieve its goal

• High quality objective, in-country and thematic
  research to increase awareness, knowledge and
  understanding of the sustainable development
  dimensions of trade
• policy workshops, and other fora, to inform and
  promote dialogue among policy-makers and
  stakeholders in TKN countries as a means
  incorporate sustainable development into trade
  policy
• To facilitate through the Trade Knowledge
  Network, its partners, and among broader
  audiences globally, exchange of information, best
  policy and practice on trade and sustainable
  development.

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Research Topics Have Included

• Services Liberalization in Electricity and
  Tourism in South Africa

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Shrimp aquaculture practice in Vietnam and
Phyto-sanitary standards for shrimp in Bangladesh
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Opportunities for sustainable agriculture and
market access issues
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Trade Knowledge Networkwww.tradeknowledgenetwork.
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• Is managed collaboratively by the International
  Institute for Sustainable Development and the
  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
  Development.
• TKN is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
  The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  (SDC) and the Canadian International Development
  Agency (CIDA).

The Trade Knowledge Network is