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Trade in the Great Sea: Revisiting EU-Southern Mediterranean trade relations
Image: Romeyn de Hooghe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Mediterranean region may currently not be a central geography for EU trade policy. As the EU’s attention lies on issues such as...
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Digital globalisation, digital trade policy, and the role of developing countries
Digital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one news story, “has accelerated digitalization and...
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The Role of Intellectual Property in Achieving the Health Sustainable Development Goal
By Prof. Dr. David Taylor, University College London Introduction In the absence of a vaccine much of the positive progress on combating HIV/AIDS recorded in the last 20 years has been due to the...
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Of debt and disease.
A street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst of the corona-crisis, the world's twenty largest...
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Old Problems in the New World: Banking and Payments Make Global E-commerce Surprisingly Local
By Sara Holmberg, Research Assistant at ECIPE Imagine a small village in rural Kenya. Imagine 20 women who make traditional jewellery. Now, imagine the solar panels on their roofs, the laptops and...
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East African Community and the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Do African Countries Suffer from the Victim Complex?
By Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) A week has passed and the deadline to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) missed. African countries are at the borderline, giving up 12 years of...
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Unwelcome Benefits of the WTO Bali Deal?
After twelve years of tedious negotiations, only a fraction of the original Doha mandate remains. One is filled with certain surprise and relief, as the news of the Bali agreement reach us on...
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Does the European Development Agenda Help to Increase Trade with Developing Countries?
The new Communication from the European Commission and the ongoing reform of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) have revived the debate about trade between the EU and developing countries....
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The New EU Strategy for Trade and Development
There are some interesting ideas and proposals in the European Commission’s new Communication on trade and development. After a decade as leader of aid for trade, the EU now wants to reform its...
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It is not all About Russia in WTO
While Europe’s attention is focused on EU leaders fighting the Eurozone crisis and intriguing future Russia World Trade Organization accession, not many have noticed that two low-income countries...