Help

Content type

Chairs

Trade Topics

Year

Research

The Digital Creative Trade and Copyright-Based Industries in the Contemporary Knowledge Economy

8 April 2019

Paper for WTO publication entitled Trade in Knowledge, edited by Jayashree Watal and Anthony Taubman. This paper addresses trade-related aspects of copyright, assesses the challenges and opportunities for creative industries in developing countries, espec ...

IP Value Capture: Fostering trade by capturing the value of creative industries in developing countries

8 April 2019

The paper explores growth opportunities for developing countries by adding value through the use of IP. Through IP, developing countries can expand their participation in global value chains and reduces their dependence on traditional low value-added comm ...

Blockchains and Trade-Related Copyright: Digitalization and the Trade 2030 Agenda

8 April 2019

This paper, in addressing trade-related aspects of copyright, assesses the challenges and opportunities for creative industries in developing countries, especially, as it relates to making the transition to a digital creative economy and the adoption of b ...

Climate Impact and Action: The Travel and Tourism Industry in the Caribbean and Small Island Developing States

8 April 2019

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like those in the Caribbean region are doubly jeopardized by climate change. They are not major emitters of greenhouse gases, but are amongst the most impacted by the ecological and economic fallout associated with cl ...

Migration, Diasporas and the Sustainable Development Goals in Least Developed Countries

8 April 2019

Migration and the growth of global diasporas are key contemporary trends which impact on the pledge to “leave no one behind” in the 2030 Agenda. The developmental potential of migration is captured in four Goals and five Targets in the Sustainable Develop ...

Cultural Cooperation and Trade under the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement

8 April 2019

This study explores the impact of the EU-CARIFORUM free trade agreement in the field of culture and creative activities. The study tries to identify the success stories, as well as the obstacles that may have prevented the full beneficial effect of the ag ...

Trade and Food Security

15 March 2019

This book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the links between trade and food security, using available data as well as evidence from economic theory and history. It is an edited publication, drawing on expertise from senior staff at the WTO, a wid ...

Using Dispute Settlement Partnerships for Capacity-Building: Bangladesh’s Triumphant Experience at WTO DSU

11 March 2019

World Trade Organisation grants rights to its Members, and WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding provides a rule-oriented consultative and judicial mechanism to protect these rights in cases of WTO-incompatible trade infringements. However, the DSU partici ...

The ASEAN Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanism

11 March 2019

This is a chapter in the book titled The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals (found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/legitimacy-of-international-trade-c...). ASEAN was established as a political and security forum and it was o ...

From NAFTA to USMCA: Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

13 February 2019

The renegotiation of NAFTA was surrounded by a dramatic atmosphere, just as Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland predicted. The negotiations took place against a backdrop of unilateral trade measures, President Trump’s mercantilist appro ...

Pages