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).
Additional WTO related topics have been included in the current undergraduate and postgraduate modules of the BCom and BCom Honours degrees in Economics and International trade.
Writing competence is of critical importance in postgraduate studies, because it often is one of very few, if not the only, communication channel(s) open between lecturer / supervisor / examiner and student, and the only real opportunity that the…
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,…
The chair continued its support to the organisation of short-training course in quantitative techniques in the field of international trade, agriculture and the environment for graduate students at the Department of Natural Resource Economics and…
The original course outline and outcomes have been extended with assistance from WTO experts who provided STATA training and other inputs. The current Research Methodology Course sets out to equip the Economics and International Trade fourth…
The second trial sessions of a new tailored short course in Academic Writing Skills for new Master’s and PhD students in Economics and International Trade took place in March/April 2017. The sessions were spread over four days: 16–17 March 2017…