The impact of sanctions on Russia’s trade flows: Preliminary Estimations

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of sanctions on commodity composition and direction of exports and imports of the Russian Federation. To this end, we use a panel data over 2012–2016 to estimate the three-sector gravity model, which, in addition to standard variables, include dummy variables capturing the effect of sanctions imposed on Russia. Our findings confirm that the Western sanctions have a considerable impact on Russia’s trade pattern.

Briefing for books

Research papers submitted to last research conference supported by WCP-UJ

Annual book for the Faculty of Business at UJ

TRADE members attendance at international conferences

TRADE members attendance at various international conferences.

Southern African TRADE- DSM® users group annual conference

On 13 and 14 March 2018, the TRADE research entity together with TRADE Advisory held their 3rd annual TRADE-DSM® User Group Conference.

WTO Awards

WTO sponsored awards for the best Master's degree dissertation in International Trade (Mr Tiaan Cloete), the best PhD (Ms Carli Bezuidenhout) and the best research paper on a WTO related topic (Dr Noleen Pisa, Prof Wilma Viviers and Prof Riaan Rossouw) were awarded to acknowledge excellence in WTO-related research.

TRADE Website and Newsletters

Two TRADE newsletters were sent out during the reporting period to 640 recipients, with an additional newsletter planned for October 2018.

Thirteen TRADE-DSM® training workshops

A. Thirteen TRADE-DSM® training workshops
Several training workshops for users of the TRADE-DSM® took place throughout the year. These workshops have provided an opportunity to publicize WTO links and expand and cement relationships with policymakers in South Africa.
B. One WTO-TRADE workshop

Academic Writing Skills Short course

Writing competence is of critical importance in postgraduate studies, because it often is one of very few, if not the only, communication channel(s) open between lecturer / supervisor / examiner and student, and the only real opportunity that the average student has to make an impression of fledgling academic competence, or the converse.

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