This chapter provides a comprehensive review of classical and modern theories of international trade, contextualized within the African experience. It begins with foundational theories such as mercantilism, absolute cost advantage, comparative cost…
The need to re-engineer growth in Africa has become increasingly glaring in the face of the prevailing economic shocks that exposed their inadequate productivity power for basic and vital food and drugs. According to the World Bank and several other…
This paper, presented at the 2nd SADC Community Law Seminar, critically examines the role of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) legal infrastructure in promoting women’s economic empowerment as a pathway to regional trade and…
This policy paper explores the crucial intersection of e-commerce and financial architecture in the context of trade in services in Lesotho. According to the World Bank, the services sector accounted for 49.17% of Lesotho's GDP in 2021, followed by…
This policy brief, presented at a research seminar organized by the National University of Lesotho – WTO Research Chair, explores the role of international trade in services, with a particular focus on e-commerce and its implications for the Lesotho…
International trade remains one of the key indicators of economic welfare of any economy. It directly increases foreign exchange earnings, meets consumer demand for foreign goods and increases production. Indirectly, it potentially increases…
Five students, instructed and trained by the WTO Chair Holder, wrote two legal submissions depicting the discussions evolving around a dispute related to the TBT Agreement and border tax adjustment from September 2017 to March 2018. Those students…
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…