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Progress in TPP on Abuses of State Capitalism
By Sherman E. Katz, Senior Advisor at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and...
Leveraging Trade for Development: An Agenda for the Nairobi WTO Ministerial
Professor Bernard Hoekman is the Robert Schuman Chair and Director of the Global Economics programme at the European University Institute. Joakim...
Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Investment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
“Either he’s dead, or my watch has stopped”: The WTO’s Nairobi Ministerial Conference must be Clear About the Future of the Doha Round
American comedian Groucho Marx was no watcher of trade policy. Although dating from the 1930s, a modern-day trade policy cynic or realist (depending...
The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Matthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
Regulatory Protection in the New World of Trade: When is it Legitimate?
Pascal Lamy, the former Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argued in his Jan Tumlir Lecture that we are moving from an old to a...
Intellectual Property Rights: Getting Priorities Right
This paper stands in the nexus of trade policy and IPRs – and it aims to provide a different economic foundation for IPR policies by discussing how...
The New World of Trade
Pascal Lamy is a former Director-General of the World Trade...
Whither the World Trade Organisation? Perspective of Key WTO Ambassadors on Current Challenges in Global Trade Talks
What are the challenges facing negotiators at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)? By the end of this year, Trade Ministers will meet in Nairobi for a...
Positioning on the Global Value Chain Map: Where do You Want to Be?
*Senior Economics at ECIPE in Brussels ([email protected]). The author wishes to thank Maria Salfi for excellent research...