More than 250 academics, scientists, researchers, innovators, educators and policymakers from around the world and across a variety of disciplines will gather from July 2-5 in Santiago, Chile, for the 30th Conference of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and 12th Edition of the International School of IP Analysis.
The event, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the IIOA, has the support of the Andrés Bello University, the Central Bank of Chile and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile.
The main theme of the conference is “Rethinking Industrial and Trade Policies in the New Global Context Using Input-Output Analysis”. The global political economy context has brought about a reorganization in global value chains towards more resilient, reliable, sustainable and secure domestic and international production patterns. This has encouraged countries, both developed and developing, to reconsider and strengthen industrial and trade policies.
Input-output analysis is a quantitative matrix method for studying the interrelations of all productive sectors of an economy. Currently, it is one of the most relevant methodological tools in economic analysis within and between several economies. Its use has spread to different areas, from the analysis of export production and calculation of its added value, to the analysis of sectoral employment by gender and wages, the environmental impact of sectoral production and the design of industrial policies, among others.
This type of analysis converges and has several intersections with ECLAC’s thinking on the importance of planning, productive development policies, the need for sectoral productive commitments, and regional productive integration, among other areas.
“I see great convergence and synergies between your work on input-output and ECLAC’s recommendations. Input-output analysis can help us in many ways: to identify key sectors with the potential to expand regional value chains, to assess forward and backward linkages, and to analyze job creation, technological characteristics, and the environmental and social impacts of industrial and trade policies,” said ECLAC Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, at the opening ceremony of the conference held on Tuesday, July 2.
“To avoid a third lost decade, ECLAC recommends that countries expand their productive development policies and undertake a major productive transformation, for which we require sectoral policies and have proposed 14 sectors that drive growth, such as the energy transition, electromobility, the circular economy, agriculture and sustainable tourism, among others,” emphasized the senior United Nations official.
Also present at the opening ceremony were Sanjiv Mahajan, Chair of the Council of the International Association for Input-Output Analysis (IIOA) and Head of Research Methods and Engagement at the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom; Gloria Peña, Manager of the Statistics and Data Division of the Central Bank of Chile; Claudia Sanhueza, Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile; and Miguel Vargas, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universidad Andrés Bello.
The Conference will include several plenary sessions, combined with parallel sessions on various topics. The full programme is available on the ECLAC website.
There will also be keynote lectures by Dr. Ya-Yen Sun, from the University of Queensland, Australia; Professor Thijs ten Raa, from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands; and Dr. Sébastien Miroudot, from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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