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 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…