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Global Trade Today: Five Basic Facts about Global Trade
There is a paradox in the global debate about trade. It has never been easier to trade internationally, but global trade is poorly understood....
Work for Others, not Yourself: Globalization, Protectionism and Europe’s Quest for Strategic Autonomy
Protectionism and mercantilism are yet again at the centre of global economic policy. “America First” is the guiding ethos in a good part of US...
Globalization Comes to the Rescue: How Dependency Makes Us More Resilient
A new consensus is growing across the European Union – and other parts of the world too: that globalization has gone too far. The argument goes as...
Globalization Isn’t in Decline: It’s Changing
Globalization isn’t in decline; it is simply changing. Although the COVID-19 crisis has seen a dramatic decline in goods trade, investments and the...
Shifting into Digital Services: Does a Crisis Matter and for Who?
How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a...
Unintended and Undesired Consequences: The Impact of OECD Pillar I and II Proposals on Small Open Economies
Corporate tax laws vary significantly between different jurisdictions. Over the past four decades, governments globally competed for business...
The Tragedy of International Organizations in a World Order in Turmoil
By Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Member of the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM) at Sciences Po. China’s rise and the U.S. response to the...
Learning to Love Trade Again
We are at the moment, the first in seventy-five years, where there is no international consensus in support of trade. Indeed, trade is unloved,...
The Role of Trade Policy in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the...
The Economic Losses from Ending the WTO Moratorium on Electronic Transmissions
This paper is co-authored with Badri Narayanan, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Washington, Consultant at McKinsey Global Institute, UN...