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Trumping Capacity Gap with Public Private Partnership: Mexican USCMA Negotiation Experience

19 June 2019

I presented this work-in-progress at Law & Society Conference 2019 held at Washington DC. The Chair of Panel: Professor Sergio Puig. The discussant: Professor Joseph Conti.   Note: All views or omissions are author's own. This article is written ...

India Slaps Retaliatory Tariffs Against US Imports: Can We Close the Pandora Box?

19 June 2019

No one is a winner in this game of tariffs. With a string of recent protectionist actions, the WTO Members have opened the pandora box. Can we close it to rescue the multilateral trading system? Have a look at my take on India's recent tariffs on US ...

Forty-first UNCTAD Regional Course on key issues on the international economic agenda 25 March-5 April 2019 UON, MOF KENYA

11 May 2019

The forty-first UNCTAD regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda organized by the University of Nairobi, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya. Covered the following topics:  The Impact of the current global ...

STRATEGIC CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON REFORMING BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES (BITs) IN KENYA

11 May 2019

The objective of the consultative meeting was to raise awareness of key stakeholders on the expiry of the Kenya-France and Kenya-Switzerland bilateral investment treaties and the need to review the investment agreements. To identify the discuss areas for ...

WTO TBT National Workshop on The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

11 May 2019

The WTO TBT National Workshop on The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade discussed: The WTO and Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs)  The key disciplines of the WTO TBT Agreement (WTO) Notifications, Enquiry points, raising "STCs" in the TBT Committe ...

Regional Trade Policy Course 2019

10 May 2019

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION REGIONAL TRADE POLICY COURSE RTPC (MAURITIUS) 2019 The WTO RTPC fits within the WTO’s Trade Related Technical Assistance (TRTA) activities. These activies aim at enhancing the human and institutional capacity of Members. For t ...

Climate Change and Trade Governance: Implications for the Travel and Tourism Sector in SIDS and the Caribbean

8 April 2019

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 evolving in ...

Digital Creative Economy and Global Value Chains: China and the Developing World

8 April 2019

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 fastest risi ...

The Caribbean Music Industry and the Digital Creative Economy: A Road-map for Innovation and Global Market Integration

8 April 2019

Segundo Encuentro de Carnavales del Caribe, La Fundación Carnaval de Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia. The Meeting of "Carnavales del Caribe" discusses the economic contribution of Carnival in the Caribbean region. Drawing on the Caribbean’s ...

Presented paper on "Migration, Diasporas and SDGs" UN CDP/UNAM LNOB Expert Group Meeting, Mexico City

8 April 2019

Migration and the growth of global diasporas are key contemporary trends which impact on the pledge to “leave no one behind” in the 2030 Agenda. The developmental potential of migration is captured in four Goals and five Targets in the Sustainable Develop ...

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