To Advance Trade Policy, Strengthen the Role of Parliaments
Oliver Braunschweig | 5 July 2024
Trade,
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Parliaments,
Trade Agreements In trade policy, parliaments generally play a lesser or even inexistent role. Strengthening their involvement can advance trade policymaking and help better align it with the public interest. This enhanced role should span the whole policy process.
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A Step into the Right Direction: The India-EFTA Trade Agreement
Oliver Braunschweig | 1 May 2024
Trade,
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EFTA,
Global Value Chains,
India,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Trade Agreements The new trade agreement between India and EFTA States includes commitments on an important yet often overlooked form of trade restrictions: local content requirements.
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Striking a Balance on Local Content Requirements in Trade Agreements: The Case of the Energy Sector
Oliver Braunschweig | 15 March 2024
Trade,
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Energy,
Global Value Chains,
Renewables The new trade agreement between India and EFTA States includes commitments on an important yet often overlooked form of trade restrictions: local content requirements.
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Balancing Export Pricing Commitments in FTAs: Towards Affordable, Secure, and Clean Energy
Oliver Braunschweig | 6 November 2023
Trade,
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Commodities,
Critical Minerals,
Energy,
Global Value Chains,
Renewables The minerals, metals, and products necessary to build renewable energy systems face an increasing number of export restrictions. This has been fueling fears of further disruptive policies down the road.
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A Dashboard for Biodiversity Risk Metrics
Oliver Braunschweig,
Chiara Colesanti Senni and
David Lunsford | 24 March 2022
Monetary,
Policy Briefs | Tags:
Biodiversity Risk,
Central Banks This policy brief calls on central banks and financial supervisors to build and use a dashboard of biodiversity metrics to assess biodiversity risks in terms of both dependencies and impacts. In order for these metrics to become fully operational, they should cover risks for firms
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Cross-border Movement of People and Its Critical Role for Services Trade
Oliver Braunschweig and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 28 February 2022
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Mode 4,
Services Trade,
WTO The importance of cross-border movement of people for services trade and the functioning of global value chains has been amply demonstrated during the COVID-19 crisis. While in normal times – and during the financial crisis in 2008 – services trade has been less volatile than
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Postponing the WTO Ministerial Conference – Making the Unexpected Breathing Space a Turning Point
Oliver Braunschweig and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 6 December 2021
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Agricultural Trade,
Health,
Services Trade,
Trade Governance,
WTO The WTO 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), which was due to take place in Geneva from 30 November – 3 December, was postponed indefinitely last minute due to new COVID-19 travel restrictions. Despite hectic activity on a rather modest agenda during the run-up to the event,
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Carbon Prices and Carbon Leakage
Oliver Braunschweig and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 15 November 2021
Trade,
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Carbon Pricing,
Carbon Tax Over the past weeks, the conversation over a global carbon price has considerably moved up policy debates worldwide. Just half a year ago, hardly anyone would have seen such a global floor as a viable option. Now, it still comes with a big question mark,
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