events

2009

The Offshore Services Industry: A New Opportunity for Latin America (La Industria de Servicios Offshoring: Una Oportunidad para América Latina)
October 21-23, 2009
Cancún
México
Gary Gereffi, Mario Castillo and Karina Fernandez-Stark presented the paper "La Industria de Servicios Offshoring: Una oportunidad para America Latina" in the annual REDIBERO meeting, with the title, "La Promoción del Comercio y la Inversión en Iberoamérica ¿Podemos avanzar hacia la promoción regional?"
Presentation (in Spanish)
Paper

Hybrid Trucks: Strategic Win for Economy and Environment
June 11, 2009
Washington D.C.
A high-tech truck convoy pulled up at Capitol Hill to showcase the emergence of fuel-and-emissions-saving hybrid technology for the nation’s biggest vehicles. The event, organized by clean transportation group CALSTART, unveiled a new CGGC study that highlights jobs created in truck manufacturing as well as other areas crucial to building the green economy: advanced energy storage, power electronics and control systems.
More

Duke-VIU 2009 International Summer Research Workshop
March 25, 2009
Durham
Duke University's Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC), together with Venice International University’s Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems (TeDIS), is pleased to announce the 2009 International Summer Research Workshop. The workshop's theme is “Economic, Social and Environmental Restructuring in Global Value Chains.”
More

Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference
February 5, 2009
Washington, DC
The February 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference was organized by the Blue Green Alliance to develop partnerships between labor and environmental groups to expand job potential in the green economy. The 2,500-participant conference included a breakout panel highlighting the CGGC report Manufacturing Climate Solutions.
Presentation

View results from: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009