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‘Trade Advisory and NWU-TRADE WTO Chair User Group Webinar (15 October 2020)’

27 October 2020

As COVID-19 wreaked havoc on global trade, Martin Cameron (Managing Director of Trade Research Advisory, a spin-out company of the North-West University) and Prof Wilma Viviers (Research professor) in the TRADE (Trade and Development) research entity and ...

GTW 2020: WTO dispute resolution: a holistic approach

28 September 2020

The panel focussed on exploring the alternative ways to settle diasgreements and disputes and reboot the existing dispute settlement machinery. Here are the skeleton points of my presentation: Ø AB crisis, right time to rethink the settlement of disagreem ...

FEMALE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN THE COVID-19 CONTEXT A series of seminars co-hosted by the Governments of UK and Mexico

28 September 2020

The Governments of Mexico and the United Kingdom organised the event “Female economic empowerment in the COVID-19 context. It provided a space for participants to discuss ways to ensure the continuity of women’s and girls’ educational and productive activ ...

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Race 2020: International Trade Specialists Perspectives

28 September 2020

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) upcoming selection by its members of the new Director-General (DG), is more critical than ever before. With a tightly contested race of eight highly-skilled candidates, a number of well renowned international trade exp ...

TRADE-DSM User Group Conference Media Release

15 September 2020

Within a few short weeks, the coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread across the world and become a global phenomenon. All countries are deeply concerned about it and all countries will almost certainly be seriously affected by it, with some governments resorti ...

Global perspective on effect of COVID-19 on trade facilitation

30 July 2020

This presentation looks at the current state of play in trade facilitation as well as a look at how COVID-19 has impacted on movement of goods in and out of the country during the pandemic. Global perspective on effect of COVID-19 on trade facilitation.pd ...

KENYA-USA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT-COMMENTS

30 July 2020

This paper gives my response to a request by the Kenya Permanent Secretary of the State Department for Trade and Enterprise Development to give my opinion on the initial draft of the proposed Free Trade Area between Kenya and the United States. USA-Kenya ...

RESPONSE TO THE PROPOSED KENYA- USA FTA AGREEMENT: NEGOTIATION PRINCIPLES, OBJECTIVES, AND SCOPE-DRAFT 6

30 July 2020

This paper gives my response to a request by the Kenya Permanent Secretary of the State Department for Trade and Enterprise Development to give my opinion on the 6th draft of the proposed Free Trade Area between Kenya and the United States. KENYA_USA FTA- ...

Special Talk: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Women in International Trade: Can Free Trade Agreements Help Reboot the Economy?

30 July 2020

A guest lecture at UNAM, Mexico City on COVID-19 and Its Impact on Women in International Trade: Can Free Trade Agreements Help Reboot the Economy? Presentation attached. Presentation UNAM.pdf Download Yes Mexico 24 June 2020 Trade topics: Gender and Trad ...

COVID-19 and its impact on women in International Trade

30 July 2020

An event organized by OWIT and IGC: https://www.genderchampions.com/events/covid-19-and-its-impact-on-women-... Recording at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbs0CO-0i-s In this presentation, I addressed the following question: whether and how we can use ...

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