Trade, Investment, and Competitiveness in an Era of Global Uncertainty

📅 20 October 2026
Panama City, Panama

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) hosts a high-level participatory dialogue on trade, investment, and competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held on October 20, 2026, in Panama City, Panama. 

Over the course of the day, policymakers, private sector leaders, academics, and development practitioners will come together to discuss a forward-looking agenda for the region and explore practical solutions and policy priorities that can help strengthen competitiveness and resilience amid an increasingly complex and uncertain global economy.

Featured topics:

•  Trade, investment, and tourism: diagnosis and action for challenging times
• A new trade agenda for uncertain times
• Strategic foreign direct investment and integration into value chains
• Trade facilitation 2.0
• Global services as engines of growth and resilience
• Private sector perspectives

TThe event will be held in person and is by invitation only

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