On November 4, 2023, the University of World Economy and Diplomacy hosted a significant master class titled "The Art of Negotiation." The event was exclusively curated for the negotiation team of Uzbekistan, that is currently striving…

On 11 September, 2023, the International Conference on “Uzbekistan’s Pathway to the WTO Accession” was held at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and organized in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Uzbekistan. It…

This policy brief provides a summary of key research findings of the WTO Chair in Oman at Sultan Qaboos University in order to enable policy making. Since the creation of WTO, agricultural trade was subjected to multilateral trade rules that…

The chair conducted a study on service trade liberalization in Oman collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The service sector in Oman contributes around 41% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and has shown a sustained annual…

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are part of numerous free or preferential trade areas and are in the process of completing or negotiating others outside the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). In this proposed study we…

The Chair is a member of the UNDP-SIDA working group on trade and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Arab region. The working group mission is to develop trade policy proposals within the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) that will…

For the Fourth consecutive time and in collaboration with WTO, SQU held the Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) for the Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) starting on October 8 to November 30, 2017 and running for 8 weeks.

The WTO, and more generally the rules-based trading system, is under scrutiny. Concerns have arisen about the role of trade, globalization more generally, and technological change in the loss of manufacturing jobs in industrial countries and…

On September 11, 2018, within the XII National Congress on Democracy and the IV International Congress on Democracy organized by the National University of Rosario (NUR), School of Political Science, the WTO Chair at FLACSO presented its…

The Project was elaborated and implemented by the WTO Chair at Buenos Aires with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With a view towards the WTO Ministerial Conference hold in Buenos Aires in December 2017, the WTO Chair…