The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in global public health governance and the international trade system, particularly in the distribution of essential medical products. Despite entering a post-pandemic era, the risk of future…
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in global public health governance and the international trade system, particularly in the distribution of essential medical products. Despite entering a post-pandemic era, the risk of future…
Cette publication présente les actes de la deuxième conférence internationale sur le thème : « Insécurité alimentaire et énergétique et résilience économique dans les pays d'Afrique centrale » qui s'est tenue au Cameroun en décembre 2024.
There is broad consensus that job creation and productive employment are key to building a vibrant, inclusive economy. The digital era holds potential to expand employment opportunities, especially in Africa, where unemployment is high and economic…
This paper examines whether government spending and governance have a nonlinear relationship with economic growth. The study determines the threshold effect of the institutional quality on the relationship between public expenditure and economic…
This paper analyzes the nonlinear effect of trade openness on economic growth over a sample of developed and developing countries during the period 1980–2020. Using a Dynamic Panel Threshold Model advanced by Seo and Shin (2016), and Seo et al., (…
The increasing trend of the inclusion of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment concerns in the negotiation of trade agreements creates a need to strengthen informed dialogue between the public and private sectors. Trade negotiators are…
At World Trade Organization (WTO), nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and until everyone agrees at the negotiating tables, and that ‘magic’ moment has been difficult to arrive at. Some WTO Members have argued that if all Members cannot…
This article investigates whether cointegration approach can be the basis of an international trade network and whether such a network is relevant for analysis. We fit data on international-trade flows with a cointegration specification using…
Si bien las estadísticas oficiales no estarán disponibles hasta junio, de acuerdo a las últimas proyecciones suministradas por la OMC, el COVID-19 agravará aún más una tendencia que ya era desalentadora para el comercio de mercancías. Ello surge de…