Mr Christophe Degain and Dr Victor Kümmritz, from the WTO’s Economic Research and Statistics Division in Geneva, Switzerland, visited the NWU from 30 May-1 June 2017 to conduct a workshop on how a Trade in Value Added (TiVA) approach to measuring…
South Africa is gripped by high and rising levels of unemployment and poverty, which have conspired to create a society that is one of the most unequal in the world today. This is not helped by the fact that the troubled global and local economies…
The EAEU came into force on January 1, 2015. In comparison with previously existing Customs Union of Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus and Republic of Kazakhstan it also encompasses Republic Armenia. Kyrgyzstan is expected to join the club in…
Given its abundant natural resources and accelerating consumer-driven growth, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has much to offer investors and traders. Yet SSA remains weakly integrated into global and regional value chains due to, among other things,…
Economic crisis of 2008-2009 promoted awareness of the necessity to transform in particular the contemporary international trading system. With respect to trade policies the proposals aiming at achieving of more sustainable and efficient…
For the overwhelming majority of intergovernmental economic organizations (IEOs) the latest economic crisis has provided substantial additional incentive to adjust their performance to the whole set of challenges facing global community during first…
The article was publsihed in the Baltic Rim Economies. Quarterly Review. 28 Febuary 2011
The paper was written within a framework of the WCP
Artcle published in the Baltic Rim Economies. Bimonthly Review. ISSUE NO. 2, 31 May 2012.
The paper was written within a framework of the WCP
“Russia’s Accession to the WTO: Major Commitments, Possible Implications”, is written by a team from the Faculty of Economics at St Petersburg State University that was led by Professor Sergey F. Sutyrin, Head of the World Economy Department and the…