WTO Experts from the WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division presented class lectures for SQU Students registered in the courses “International Trade NREC 4410” and “Food Policy NREC 3102” during the 9th and 10th of November 2016. Ms. Marie-Bel…
A training course was organized on the use of futures prices and options to manage import price variability. The course was delivered by Paul Dubravek a commodity Price risk specialist from Chicago Board of Trade and Dr. Msafiri Mbaga Associate…
A short training was conducted for faculty , PhD and MSC students and last year undergraduate students of the Department of Natural Resource Economics on March 8, 2015 on the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP Model).
75 students graduated with Master of Arts in International Studies and 10 students graduated with a Master of Arts in Economics (doing trade related research and being supervised by WCP members) on Friday 22nd December 2017 at the Chancellor’s…
Dr. Peter Kitonyo and Dr. James Gatauwa graduated on Friday, September 14, 2018 Chancellor’s Court the 59th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees and Award of Diplomas
This thesis aimed at developing both single product and composite measures of financial inclusion and to establish how it links to welfare and vulnerability to poverty in Kenya. This is motivated by the need to raise financial inclusion to the…
The theory of international trade is one of the oldest subfields of Economics and its central concerns remain those of David Ricardo. In recent years the field of international economics has exhibited a major expansion of the range of topics…
The course aims at analyzing the international economic system and the main problems and events, especially with regard to Kenya and other developing countries. Emphasis will lie on the theoretical framework that helps to explain the actual…
The members of the WTO Chairs Program at the University of Nairobi spent 3 days working with delegates from the Great Lakes Facilitation Project in COMESA Lusaka to validate the Trainers of Trainers manuals.
A one week training course was offered to the graduate students at the Department of Natural Resource Economics, Sultan Qaboos University on the Application of STATA to analyze trade data and gravity modeling from April 30th to May 4th,…