The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States maintained the previous system for binational panel judicial review. This system provides for ad hoc tribunals composed of three panelists from one country and two from the other…
In this book review, Bradly Condon, WTO Chair in Mexico, finds that Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law is a well-written and timely book, which addresses many important issues regarding the application of the international…
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have recently developed renewable energy (RE) markets. However, their rate of investment in renewable energy remains small compared to other regions in the world despite their relatively abundant…
This paper examines the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia for the period 2002~2014. Using firm-level data, we analyze the impact of offshoring on turnover, productivity, wages and firm survival. Overall, offshore firms perform better with…
Remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reached $466 billion in 2017, an amount which is three times the size of official development and is larger than foreign direct investment (FDI) for all LMICs excluding China (World Bank…
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?".
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Trade openness remains one of the key drivers of exchange rate fluctuations in both the long-run and short-run. The relationship between trade openness and exchange rate has long been explained in many theoretical and empirical studies. Nevertheless…
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…
Numerous studies have focused on delineating the relationship between tourism and economic growth. In this article, we present the results of a rigorous meta-regression analysis based on 545 estimates drawn from 113 studies that empirically tested…
Using firm-level data from two selected African countries, we examine whether firm-level investment in physical capital is a possible channel through which less productive firms gain entry into export markets. Our findings reveal that non-exporters…