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Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance, published in World Development
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity score matching (PSM) to…
Digital Economy, Sustainability and International Economic Law (Series Title: Current and Future Developments in Law, Volume 3)
This volume reviews issues that address the interconnection between digital economy, sustainability and international economic law. It covers a range of topics, including renewables subsidies, AI and corporate governance, digital currency, dispute…
Engaging in the digital economy: issues and agenda in the quest to adopt Indonesia’s e-commerce roadmap
The study explores structural and practical issues following the adoption of Indonesia’s e-commerce roadmap (2017–2019) and its implications for the future of the country’s digital economy. Two major categories of issues are examined in order to…
Legal Research Priorities in Climate Change
The Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, inspired by the effective altruism movement, has created a research agenda to prioritize the research that has the potential to do the most good over the long term (https://…
An Analysis of Eco-Tourism and Its Potential: Case Study of Small Island Developing States
The contribution of the tourism sector towards the development of host nations is undeniable in that it provides several benefits such as creation of employment, generation of added value and tax revenue, and boosting of inward foreign direct…
Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pandemic Era
This book explores the ways to 'rethink', 'repackage' and 'rescue' world trade law in the post-COVID-19 era. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an important context, the book makes original and critical contributions to the growing debate over a range…
CO2 emissions, environmental provisions and global value chains in MENA countries
The paper investigates the relationship between carbon emissions, environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and Global Value Chains (GVCs) using a panel data gravity model for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over…
“Financial Risk Management in the Anthropocene era”, in T. Walker et al,
We examine the financial risk management of the climate crisis from three perspectives. First, we assess the serious risks from climate change. The ecological and financial consequences of climate change depend on the future path of emissions, as…
“To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World” in Lewis, et al (Eds.) A Post-WTO International Legal Order
This chapter highlights the linkages between the climate crisis and trade negotiations in a dystopic post-WTO world. It argues that the window of opportunity to achieve an effective multilateral trade regime has closed and will be sealed shut by…
Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law. by JAMES MUNRO.
In this book review, Bradly Condon, WTO Chair in Mexico, finds that Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law is a well-written and timely book, which addresses many important issues regarding the application of the international…