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Oman-WTO chair highlights: Trade policy and food security

24 June 2021

This policy brief provides a summary of key research findings of the WTO Chair in Oman at Sultan Qaboos University in order to enable policy making. Since the creation of WTO, agricultural trade was subjected to multilateral trade rules that are stipulate ...

Service trade liberalization in Oman

17 December 2018

The chair conducted a study on service trade liberalization in Oman collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The service sector in Oman contributes around 41% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and has shown a sustained annual growth of ...

Analyzing the effect of intra-regional and inter-regional trade integration schemes of the GCC countries

17 December 2018

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are part of numerous free or preferential trade areas and are in the process of completing or negotiating others outside the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). In this proposed study we evaluate empiri ...

First Meeting of the UNDP-SIDA Working Group on SDGs

17 December 2018

The Chair is a member of the UNDP-SIDA working group on trade and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Arab region. The working group mission is to develop trade policy proposals within the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) that will enhance the ...

Regional Trade Policy Course

17 December 2018

For the Fourth consecutive time and in collaboration with WTO, SQU held the Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) for the Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) starting on October 8 to November 30, 2017 and running for 8 weeks. 2017 Regional Trade ...

2016 GTAP Conference – World Bank

9 April 2018

The Chair, Dr Houcine Boughanmi and Dr Hemesiri Kotagama, member of the chair team attended the 2016 GTAP (Global Economic Analysis) conference held at the World Bank, Washignton DC on 15-17 June 2016 where they presented a paper in the WTO Chairs Session ...

Second MENA Trade Workshop on “Trade, WTO and Food Security”

9 April 2018

The WTO Chair at Sultan Qaboos University hosted the Second MENA Trade Workshop “Trade, WTO and Food Security” on March 21 and 22, 2015. The two-day workshop has discussed the linkage between trade, WTO and food security as well as other trade related iss ...

Joint UNCTAD- CAMS Workshop on Date Exports

4 April 2018

The College of Agriculture and Marine Sciences at SQU, together with UNCATD organised a workshop on the date export development. The chair participated as a speaker on this workshop and delivered a speech on  “Export Promotion Policies and the WTO". ...