WTO Chairholder Prof.Wilma Viviers from North-West University and her colleagues write an opinion piece in the World Trade Report of 2019 titled "MSMES and services trade: A pathway to inclusive growth in developing economies?".
Introduction:
There…
On the 29 March 2017 the former British PM Theresa May invoked Article 50 and officially began the process of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, also popularly known as ‘Brexit’. There have been very many analyses about the…
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Panel presenter and moderator, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. The workshop served as a platform to begin much needed discussions on harmonizing activities in the regional cultural sector. In this regard, the…
The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, combining both tangible and intangible cultural elements, is an active expression of cultural vibrancy and vehicle of cultural sustainability within the country, the region, and in the Caribbean diaspora…
Published in Cultural Industries and Creative Economy in Latin America. Economic and Social Development in the Region, Universitaria Agustiniana, Bogota, Colombia.
The rise of the digital creative economy is one of the defining features of the…