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…
The Centre for World Trade Studies UGM undertook the following research project in collaboration with the Indonesian National Public Procurement Agency (NPPA) in 2018. The first research project analyses the readiness of Indonesian domestic…
The members of the WCP Team undertook a research theme that is in close connection to the recent WTO research, in particular the 2018 World Trade Report that was dedicated to transformative impact of digital technologies on labour and trade. To that…
WTO Chair Holder attended the Biannual Conference of the Society of International Economic Law in Washington, DC and delivered a presentation on “Trade and Competition: Time to Embrace Complementarity and Interdependence” as part of the WTO Chairs…
The findings stemming from the research is published in the UK House of Commons’ Exiting the EU Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on “The Future UK-EU Relationship”. Following the evidence that the Chair Holder provided to the House of…
The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement recently went into force following its ratification by two third of WTO members on 22 February 2017. The world trade report 2015 estimates showed that the full implementation of the TFA could reduce trade costs…
The paper analyzes the structure of poverty and trade openness in Morocco, and how trade liberalization affects poverty. We present regional evidence in the last fifteen years. We illustrate significant regional differences in term of poverty,…
Studying trends and peculiarities of Japanese Economic partnership agreements and FTAs shows that they tend to become more complicated by scope and details. However, their utilization rate remains insufficient: less than 40 [percent. The transfer to…
The evolution of international economic relations in recent years has prompted the Russian Federation to reconsider its role in the neighborhood and on the global stage. In particular, the Ukrainian crisis and the Western economic sanctions against…