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African Cotton Markets at Crossroads: Will the Price Spike Turn into a New Kick-Start?
After years of diplomatic efforts and legal procedures to obtain the elimination of rich countries’ cotton subsidies, policy prospects for African...
The Elusive Quest for Supply Response to Cash-crop Market Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Cotton
Little cross-cutting conclusions emerge from comparative studies on the impact of structural adjustment on Sub-Saharan African agricultural...
Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade
The US and the EU have the capacity to play a leading role together in promoting international trade liberalisation. They remain the economic giants...
Public Support for Trade Policy
Public opinion data suggests that people on both sides of the Atlantic are committed to free trade in principle, but advocate protection...
The Multilateralism Conundrum: International Economic Relations in the Post-hegemonic Era
Examining the systemic malaise from which the Doha Development Round and the WTO suffer, this working paper, produced for the Transatlantic Task...
The Role of International Business in Aid for Trade: Building Capacity for Trade in Developing Countries
Since the launch of the global initiative on Aid for Trade in 2005, there has been a concerted effort by donors, partner agencies and recipients to...
Deleveraging, Traditional versus Capital Markets Banking and the Urgent Need to Separate and Recapitalise G-SIFI Banks
Since the crisis, even with massive support from governments and central banks, widespread regulatory changes and promises from bank executives to...
FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...