The WTO Chairs in the African region organised a virtual International Conference on International Trade and Investment, with a special conference theme of ‘AfCFTA: Challenges and Opportunities’on the 7–8 September 2022. The organising and…

This presentation was presented by Prof Wilma Viviers and Prof Leila Baghdadi at the ISS webinar on 10 December 2020. The presentation was titled Tunisia's export opportunities Focus: Africa and EU

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…

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…

Two TRADE members presented papers at the 22nd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)) that took place at the University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland on 19-21 June 2019.

Emmanuel Orkoh obtained his PhD under the supervision of TRADE members Prof Derick Blaauw (promoter) and Dr Carike Claassen (co-promoter) in May. In his thesis titled ‘Essays on trade openness, wage, poverty and intra-household time…

TRADE members attendance at various international conferences.

On 13 and 14 March 2018, the TRADE research entity together with TRADE Advisory held their 3rd annual TRADE-DSM® User Group Conference.

WTO sponsored awards for the best Master's degree dissertation in International Trade (Mr Tiaan Cloete), the best PhD (Ms Carli Bezuidenhout) and the best research paper on a WTO related topic (Dr Noleen Pisa, Prof Wilma Viviers and Prof…

Two TRADE newsletters were sent out during the reporting period to 640 recipients, with an additional newsletter planned for October 2018.