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The Doha Round: “Death-Defying Agenda” or “Don’t Do it Again”?
Almost eight years after the launch of the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or...
How to Revive Doha with Some Chance of Success
This Policy Brief concerns the troubled state of the Doha Round. The classical model for a multilateral trade negotiation (as developed from the GATT...
Leveraging Trade in Services to Consolidate Global Economic Recovery: An Agenda for the G-20
The time is ripe for G-20 policymakers to take strong and decisive action to reduce the costs of providing services abroad, because: 1. The costs...
Circular Labour Migration and Offshoring of IT Services: What can be Done to Remove Unnecessary Trade Barriers?
India has since the early 1990s moved from being an inward-looking economy with import-substitution policies to become one of the world’s leading...
Antidumping in Supercomputers or Supercomputing in Antidumping? The «Cray-NEC» Case
The U.S. antidumping case in vector supercomputers – the Cray-NEC case – resulted in the imposition o the highest antidumping duties in the...
A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation
Few policy issues in Brussels and Washington DC are met with such a compact unity across political boundaries as the idea of deepened transatlantic...
Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform
This paper examines the causes of the global financial crisis (focusing in particular on why residential mortgage-backed securities and credit...
Has the EU’s Single Market Program led to Deeper Integration of EU Services Markets?
This paper empirically evaluates whether the EU’s Single Market Program has led to deeper integration of EU services markets. It adopts a...