This book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the links between trade and food security, using available data as well as evidence from economic theory and history. It is an
edited publication, drawing on expertise from senior staff at the WTO…
This is a chapter in the book titled The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals (found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/legitimacy-of-international-trade-courts-and-tribunals/34E5E4E315147B45E1CFA667F0DC487E).
ASEAN was…
This book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the links between trade and food security, using available data as well as evidence from economic theory and history. It is an edited publication, drawing on expertise from senior staff at the WTO…
WCP Chair holder Michael Ewing-Chow organized a WTO panel "Trade and X: the Future of the WTO" with other WCP Chair holders Bradly Condon, Valentina Delich, Pinar Artiran, chaired by Mark Wu and commented by Henry Gao at the SIEL conference in…
Trade facilitation by way of simplifying trade procedures has long been worked by various international organizations. After the World Trade Organization reached its Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), enforcing the agreed-upon trade facilitation…
Internationalization has become an important feature of the informal sector in West Africa, in the last few decades. Yet, official trade and financial data provide a very misleading picture of the patterns and magnitudes of cross border trade in the…
THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON POVERTY: ECONOMIC GROWTH –UNEMPLOYMENT LINKAGE
By:
Taleb Awad-Warrad
WTO-Chair Holder
Prof. of Economics
University of Jordan
WTO/WORLD BANK TRADE & POVERTY FORUM Geneva, Switzerland, 26 May 2016
I. Introduction A former professor of mine was fond of telling us, “Beware of men who ask binary questions because such men already know the answers they want to get”. When Singapore first started negotiating our first free trade agreements (FTAs),…