Delegate: Israel Robles Tinoco
School: Tecnológico de Monterrey
Country: China
Committee: ECOSOC
Topic A: Strategies to achieve economic sustainability and international market competitiveness in developing
countries in the next 5 years.
Good afternoon delegates, chairs and moderator.
Economic sustainability and the competitiveness of the international market has been a problem "to maintain and
continue with their development in a country" since the first great economic decline that affected many people in the
United States and European countries, the Great Depression. With the Great Depression it came Plans, Treaties,
Conventions, Doctrines to heal the economy and restructure it in favor of the country that proposed and a little part
of it for the other countries that followed him. All this happened in the 1900´s.
According to: “The UN Tax Trust Fund tackles key issues that could help developing countries to unleash their
potential to achieve sustainable development through technical support on areas such as double taxation treaties,
transfer pricing (profit shifting) taxation of the extractive industries and taxation of services” (UN, 2018).
The developing countries need to continue by the own promotion of the sustainable economic in urban areas, this to
improve the economic sustainability.
The global governance system is undergoing far-reaching changes. Developing countries are continuing to gain
collective strength, gradually evening out the global balance of power. International investment and trade rules are
undergoing restructuring at a faster pace, and the multilateral trading system is facing the challenge of regional high-
standard free trade regimes.
With the Great Depression and the financial crisis that had preceded it in mind, policymakers agreed to restrict
international capital mobility and thus prioritize trade and production over finance and give countries greater
macroeconomic policy space.
China’s economy sustained rapid growth, enabling the country to comfortably maintain its position as the world’s
second-largest economy and increase its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) to 49,351 yuan (US$7,924) in
2015.
Some possible solutions:
The integration of the planning and measurement systems of business enterprises.
A greater accountability to non-traditional stakeholders.
Go back to the Alliance for Progress (the mistake was to believe that the general laws of economic
development are always the same, without repeating that each historical stage has its own laws.)
The creation of more jobs in the area of agriculture, the attendance to the section of workers.
A new economic model based on the Bretton Woods.
Capital controls and restrictions to short-term capital flows.
Quality jobs that stimulate the economy while not harming the environment.
Predicting the future of the Alliance for Progress was not difficult and its results have not surprised anyone. The evil
was (the origin, since an error of appreciation was made that proved fatal.) It was thought that the Marshall Plan
experience could be applied to Latin America, although the historical and
Does your country show: rampant corruption, growing social unrest because of the widening gap between rich and
poor, and a wide array of environmental problems because of the population your country has?
Policies were different. The mistake was to believe that the general laws of economic development are always the
same, regardless of the fact that each historical stage has its own laws. Frequent: economists contribute to this
confusion, by ignoring that economic organisms differ from one another as long as the conditions of their
development are different. This aberration is aggravated when it is considered that the capitalist form of
development is definitive and not a mere transitory stage of historical development.
Geopolitical competition is growing fiercer in some regions, traditional and non-traditional security threats have
become intertwined, and international relations are more complicated than ever.
While national inequalities had been in the aftermath of the Second World War, this trend was reversed in the 1980s,
when inequality began to rise sharply again, particularly in developed and emerging economies, with the largest
gains going to the top 1 per cent of households. The extent of within-country inequalities, while growing in most
countries, varies widely between them. In several countries in Latin America, the major exceptions to the overall
trend, social programs and improvements in labor productivity have played a major role in reducing income
inequality since 2000. Distributional diversity, however, applies to the developed world as well as developing
countries What do you think is the importance of global economic forces, institutional factors play an important role
in explaining it?
Capital controls and restrictions to short-term capital flows were an essential part of the post-war Bretton Woods
regime. With the Great Depression and the financial crisis that had preceded it in mind, policymakers agreed to
restrict international capital mobility and thus prioritize trade and production over finance and give countries greater
macroeconomic policy space. However, this essentially Keynesian vision was undermined by the ascendancy of
financial interests in key developed countries, a broader move to- wards deregulation and liberalization, and growing
trade links between countries, which made it more difficult to administer capital controls As your delegations may
know, China´s global economic scene has grown since the 1979 in the reform and open-ing as unprecedent. This
was a dramatic contrast with the depressing performance of other transitional economies in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. The economic problems that were devastated because of the WWII. As a result of the
extraordinary performance, there has been a dramatic change in China’s status in the global economy. China’s
economy sustained rapid growth, enabling the country to comfortably maintain its position as the world’s second-
largest economy and increase its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) to 49,351 yuan (US$7,924) in 2015.
The delegation of China sees that the economic sustainability as an opportunity to create new jobs for people, for
many business executives.
The two countries are by their sheer size economic giants and while they grow at the rates observed in recent years
(decades in the case of China) it is obvious that their transformation will have profound effects, not just internally
but for the rest of the world. Such effects, already in evidence, are a combination of new market opportunities
arising from enhanced purchasing power and greater competitiveness of these mega-economies as producers of
selected products.
They also share common problems associated with rapid growth such as the widening rural-urban income gap and
environmental degradation. Rising incomes create impetus for structural change in the agriculture and food sectors
as demand and consumption patterns shift; concomitantly the impact will extend to trade, commerce and investment.
A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments and under-consumption lead to an erosion
of the basic social contract underlying democratic societies: that all must share in progress. Even though the average
annual growth rate of real GDP per capita worldwide is increasing year on year, there are still many countries in the
developing world that are decelerating in their growth rates and moving farther from the 7% growth rate target set
for 2030. As labor productivity decreases and unemployment rates rise, standards of living begin to decline due to
lower wages.
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs
that stimulate the economy while not harming the environment. Job opportunities and decent working conditions are
also required for the whole working age population. There needs to be increased access to financial services to
manage incomes, accumulate assets and make productive investments. Increased commitments to trade, banking and
agriculture infrastructure will also help increase productivity and reduce unemployment levels in the world’s most
impoverished regions.
UNITED STATES: Bretton Woods, good economy, make alliance with him
CHINA: If sustainable development is to achieve its potential, it must be integrated into the planning and
measurement systems of business enterprises. And for that to happen, the concept must be articulated in terms that
are familiar to business leaders.
Lets say that you have a chemical company whose plant has excessive effluent discharges might decide to replace it
with a more effective treatment facility. But should the company close the existing plant during the two or three-year
construction period and risk losing? Well the delegation of China wants to avoid this with good? The global
economy is coming under growing pressure to pay for the restoration of damaged environments. But this economic
engine is being asked to help solve other pressing problems at the same time. The challenge is to solve all of these
problems in a sustainable manner, so as to generate continuing development.
What is wrong is that: ‘Only an irresponsible company would dismiss this trend as a passing fad or fail to recognize
the need to integrate environmental considerations into every aspect of its business. Environmental excellence has to
become part of strategic thinking. It is in our best economic interests to do so. In fact, whenever we are forced to
change, we often find opportunities.’
Market share? Or should it continue to operate the polluting plant despite the cost of fines and adverse public
relations? Which is the better course of action in terms of economy, social wellbeing and the environment?
sustainable development means adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and
its stakeholders today while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be
needed in the future.
The sustainable developments require a new cultural orientation and extensive refinements to systems, practices and
procedures.
China's issues of sustainability are not historically linked to private consumption as they are in the United States or
western Europe; they are linked to the industrial processes that are supporting China's economic development
model.
Economic sustainability
International market competitiveness
China is obviously the biggest story out of Asia in terms of economic growth in recent decades, and the growth in
China has been a driving force for the recovery from the global crisis since 2009.
Rising incomes create impetus for structural change in the agriculture and food sectors as demand and consumption
patterns shift; concomitantly the impact will extend to trade, commerce and investment
Both China and India have experienced impressive growth in agriculture, a Green Revolution, followed by rapid
industrial growth and a sharp decrease in relative poverty.
As your delegations may remember the reunion of Bretton Woods in the end of the WWII. A new economic model
GERMANY:
FRANCE:
UK:
MEXICO:
JAPAN:
INDIA: The two countries are by their sheer size economic giants and while they grow at the rates observed in
recent years (decades in the case of China) it is obvious that their transformation will have profound effects, not just
internally but for the rest of the world. Such effects, already in evidence, are a combination of new market
opportunities arising from enhanced purchasing power and greater competitiveness of these mega-economies as
producers of selected products.
They also share common problems associated with rapid growth such as the widening rural-urban income gap and
environmental degradation. Rising incomes create impetus for structural change in the agriculture and food sectors
as demand and consumption patterns shift; concomitantly the impact will extend to trade, commerce and investment.
CAMBODIA:
RUSSIA:
BRAZIL:
AGHANISTAN:
CANADA:
ARMENIA:
CAMEROON:
GHANA:
VENZUELA:
SAUDI ARABIA:
JAMAICA:
UKRAINE:
YEMEN:
SOUTH KOREA:
IRAN:
THE PHILIPPINES:
MOROCCO:
