There is broad consensus that job creation and productive employment are key to building a vibrant, inclusive economy. The digital era holds potential to expand employment opportunities, especially in Africa, where unemployment is high and economic…
This paper examines whether government spending and governance have a nonlinear relationship with economic growth. The study determines the threshold effect of the institutional quality on the relationship between public expenditure and economic…
This paper analyzes the nonlinear effect of trade openness on economic growth over a sample of developed and developing countries during the period 1980–2020. Using a Dynamic Panel Threshold Model advanced by Seo and Shin (2016), and Seo et al., (…
The increasing trend of the inclusion of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment concerns in the negotiation of trade agreements creates a need to strengthen informed dialogue between the public and private sectors. Trade negotiators are…
International arbitration institutions have been requested to administer an increasing number of investment disputes. In investment arbitration, a responding state usually stipulates its standing offers to arbitrate in the bilateral investment…
Regulatory measures on cross-border data flows are essential to personal data protection laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the European Union (“EU”) is one of such influential personal data protection regimes, which has become…
After starting its approach to OECD activities in the 90s, Brazil submitted a formal letter of accession to the Organization in May 2017. Since then, the country has sought to adapt and adhere to the OECD legal instruments, among them, the Codes of…
O objetivo desta Nota é apresentar estimativas da taxa de câmbio real de equilíbrio para a economia brasileira frente a uma cesta de moedas. Para realizar esta tarefa, utilizamos variáveis sugeridas pela literatura econômica como sendo determinantes…
This article was published in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.   More information on this publication is available here. 
No processo de acessão do Brasil à OCDE, o País passará pelo crivo de seus membros, com base nos indicadores verdes da Organização, quais sejam: os de sustentabilidade, os de crescimento verde e os de meio ambiente. Neste sentido, o objetivo do…