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Research

Threshold Effect of Globalization on Democracy: the Role of Demography, Journal of the Knowledge Economy

9 July 2020

This article is published in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. The literature presents conflicting expectations about the effect of globalization on democracy. One view expects globalization to enhance democracy, a second argues that globalization obs ...

Minimum price policy impact in the Tunisian dairy sector, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies

9 July 2020

The objectives of this article published in Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies are to develop a partial equilibrium model for a dairy sector according to two approaches—“Quantity Formulation” and “Price Formulation”—and to show t ...

Unlocking Tunisia’s unexploited export potential"

9 July 2020

The European Union (EU) has long been Tunisia’s leading trade partner. Bilateral trade increased sharply after Tunisia and the EU signed an Association Agreement in 1995 aimed at creating a free trade area for goods, excluding agricultural and fishery pro ...

Effect of Brexit Referendum: The case of Mauritius-UK Trade

14 April 2020

For years, the United Kingdom (UK) has been one of the top export destinations for Mauritius. The Brexit referendum, held in June 2016, not only affected the UK economy but also resulted in several economic repercussions worldwide, including Mauritius. To ...

Research paper "The First WTO’s Ruling on National Security Exception: Balancing Interests or Opening Pandora’s Box?"

25 February 2020

For a multilateral system to be sustainable, it is important to have several escape clauses which can allow countries to protect their national security concerns. However, when these escape windows are too wide or ambiguous, defining their ambit and scope ...

Trumping Capacity Gap with Negotiation Strategies: The Mexican USMCA Negotiation Experience

25 February 2020

Note: All views or omissions are author's own. This paper is solely for academic exchange purposes, and it does not reflect or suggest WTO's view on this or any other matter at all. In the past few months, we have witnessed the “worst deal” in t ...

Measuring the Gender-Responsiveness of Free Trade Agreements: Using a Self-Evaluation Maturity Framework

25 February 2020

In the recent years, we have witnessed a sharp increase in the number of free trade agreements (FTAs) with gender-related provisions. The key champions of this evolution include Canada, Chile, and the European Union. These countries have proposed a new pa ...

TRADE-SA-Tunisia export opportunities project- Report back on 1st workshop

20 January 2020

TRADE-SA-Tunisia export opportunities project- Report back on 1st workshop. With South Africa and Tunisia being located at opposite ends of the African continent and their main export markets being in Europe and other major trading regions, one might thin ...

The limits of inter-systemic dispute resolution/ Mi casa es tu casa? The challenges for bicultural, bijuridical and bilingual ad

14 November 2019

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. The ...

Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law. by JAMES MUNRO.

14 November 2019

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 economic ...

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