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…

Angel Villalobos, Director General De Comercio Internacional de Servicios e Inversión de la Secretaría de Economía del Gobierno de México, organizó un panel en las oficinas de la Secretaría de Economía en la Ciudad de México, para…

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 focus of the lecture will be on the concept of the Blue Economy and other related concepts which are used globally; the contribution of the Blue Economy at global level in promoting growth and generating employment; Blue Economy as a paradigm…

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 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…

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…

Annual SALISES Conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica. This conference examined the Caribbean’s prospects for 2030 against the background of the aspirations of the peoples of the region articulated during the 1947 conference and the global goals…

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…