A three-day 10th annual conference of the Partnership Programme in Customs Academic Research and Development (PICARD) the World Customs Organization started in Baku.
The event was opened by Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization Kunio Mikuriya, and the Chairman of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev.
The Nobel Prize-winning Professor at Harvard University (USA), Eric Maskin spoke on Why Global Markets Failed to Reduce Inequality in the Developing World. The following presentation was made by the Director General of the International Centre for Tax and Development Mick Moore (UK) on International Cooperation: Comparative Characteristics of Trade and Taxes.
The agenda includes plenary sessions Factors Stimulating Customs Officers and Global Supply Chains. Tomorrow is planned report by the Nobel Prize winner, Professor at Arizona State University (USA) Edward K. Presсott. On the final day there will be a keynote address by Nobel Laureate, Professor, University of California Finn Kydland.
On September 11 Baku will host the official opening ceremony of the Regional Office of the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU). --17D-
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