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…
ITAM hosted SIEL regional conference for Latin American International Economic Law Network on 14-15 October 2019. The conference theme was: “STEPS BACK IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW ORDER: IMPACTS TO LATIN AMERICA”. Twelve panels, more than…
The eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference witnessed 118 Members and observers coming together to sign the Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment. The Declaration reaffirms that ‘international trade and investment are engines of…
The forty-first UNCTAD regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda organized by the University of Nairobi, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya. Covered the following topics: …
The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest annual outreach event, which provides a platform for participants to discuss the latest developments in world trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral trading system. This paper explores the…
Global Lecture Series, Wenzhou-Kean University, China. Presented to students and faculty at the Wenzhou-Keane University.The rise of the digital economy is one of the defining features of the contemporary global economy. It is also one of the…
Segundo Encuentro de Carnavales del Caribe, La Fundación Carnaval de Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia. The Meeting of "Carnavales del Caribe" discusses the economic contribution of Carnival in the Caribbean region. Drawing on the Caribbean’s…
Committee for Development Policy Members, Professors Elson, Klasen, and Nurse presented the CDP perspectives on how LDCs and other developing countries can expand their productive capacity for achieving the SDGs during the panel discussion held…
The PTPR of Colombia started in November 2017. The Review will be launched in Colombia in December 2018. The PTPRs are carried out in the framework of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains (GVCs), Production…
Center for World Trade Studies UGM took part in ARTNeT Capacity Building Workshop on Non-Tariff Measures: Economic Assessment and Policy Options for Development. The workshop was held by UNCTAD and ARTNeT UNESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand from…