Strengthening the Resilience of Pandemic-Related Medical Product Supply Chains - Assessing the Relationship Between the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the WTO

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 pandemics necessitates urgent international cooperation to enhance preparedness and supply chain resilience. This paper examines the limitations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in regulating trade-restrictive measures during the pandemic and explores the potential of the forthcoming WHO pandemic agreement to guide future responses.

Strengthening the Resilience of Pandemic-Related Medical Product Supply Chains - Assessing the Relationship Between the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the WTO

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 pandemics necessitates urgent international cooperation to enhance preparedness and supply chain resilience. This paper examines the limitations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in regulating trade-restrictive measures during the pandemic and explores the potential of the forthcoming WHO pandemic agreement to guide future responses.

Network features in shaping sectors’ responses to the Spillover effects of Covid -19 shocks

As inter-sectoral linkages are being increasingly organized in complex networks, It has become inconceivable to study sectors’ responses to exogenous shocks without considering the nature of these invisible but real linkages Leontief (1941). However, although important, this research field remains poorly analyzed in both the theoretical and empirical literature. In this paper, we aim to investigate how sectors’ network centrality and local density measures impact their responsiveness to sectoral shocks propagating through input output linkages.

COVID-19 shock on supply chains: evidence from a developing country

In this paper we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown policies on Tunisia’s supply chains. We estimate a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood model using data on bilateral imports for intermediate, capital, and final goods for the years 2019 and 2020 at the country–month–product level. Our results show that, overall, lockdowns in Tunisia’s partner countries had a significant and negative effect on imports made under both offshore and onshore regimes.

Jaffur, Z. K., Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V., & Seetanah, B. (2023). An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Trade: Evidence from a Small Island African Economy. Journal of African Trade, 10(1), 6.

This study investigates the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related containment measures on the trade system of Mauritius for the period January 2010 to June 2021. As the pandemic spread across the globe due to high interconnectedness across countries, the Mauritian authorities also established stringent health containment measures in the form of restrictions on people and businesses to slow the propagation of the virus.

La riposte économique contre la Covid-19 en Afrique francophone: l'«espace politique en question»

Africa, while less impacted than other regions of the world, is still facing disastrous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, African countries, especially those in French-speaking Africa, have provided less support to their economies during the crisis compared to other nations. This situation has brought about renewed debates on political space in these countries.

Seminar on WTO Law and Practice

Climate change has become the most pressing concern around the world. Goal 13 of the United Nations Description Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) urges Members to take immediate action to combat climate change. Goal 7 of the SDGs also advocates to facilitates access to renewable energy. Trade may intensify climate change, but it is also an essential part of the solution.

TOWARDS GREEN & SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY OF CHINA & ASEAN ECONOMY: AN ASEAN PERSPECTIVE IN THE POST-GLOBALIZED ECONOMY

This outreach activity is organized by ASEAN Foundation and Peking University and attended by participants of ACYLS (ASEAN-China Young Leaders Summit) 2021. Topics of my interest and presentation are as follows:
■ ASEAN: Crisis and Schemes for Recovery
– ASEAN & Its Contemporary Economic Crisis
■ Covid-19 Pandemic: A Crisis Like No Other
– A Snapshot on ACRF (ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework) 2020
■ Key Principles and Approach
■ Broad Strategies and Its Enabling Factors
– How do ASEAN Prepare so far? Current State of Play

GLOBAL RECESSION/PROTECTIONISM: KEY FEATURES, (FUTURE) TRENDS AND IMPACTS TO INDONESIAN TRADE & INVESTMENT

This outreach activity was designed in a focused group discussion (FGD) format with scholars and government officials at the Economic Research Unit of Indonesian Science Association. Topics presented include:
■ The twin phenomena of global pandemic of Covid-19 and 2020 global recession
– Covid-19 as the trigger for 2020 global recession
– Current state of affairs: 25+ (developed and developing) countries are in recession now
– Projected worst scenario of global economic growth: a global depression?

THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT

O objetivo deste seminário é instar grandes especialistas, nacionais e internacionais, a oferecer um balanço sistemático das alterações globais, passado um ano desde o início da pandemia. A proposta é que este balanço sirva, por meio de um documento de trabalho, de subsídio para discussões sobre estratégias de inserção internacional do Brasil. O seminário será organizado em torno de 4 pilares:
 

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