South-South Preferential Trade Agreements in Services – Economic Potential Lying Idle
Charlotte Sieber-Gasser | 4 October 2016
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Services Trade,
WTO
Imagine the Central African Republic and Cameroon investing in the compatibility and quality of their railway tracks, and eventually merging their railways altogether. The producers in the Central African Republic would get easy access to the sea, while Cameroon’s railway and ports would benefit from
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Measuring and Understanding Trade in Service Tasks
Daniel Chiquiar,
Martín Tobal and
Renato Yslas | 24 May 2016
Trade,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
Improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had differential impacts on the costs of offshoring service tasks. As a result, services with stronger tradability characteristics are at a higher risk of being offshored. This has increased the need for coming up with proper measures
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Trade and Employment. An Overview
Johannes Schwarzer | 29 February 2016
Trade,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment
The bulk of economic research on the impacts of trade has for a long time neglected aggregate effects on jobs. While research grants an important role of trade for employment, empirical studies often struggle to attribute employment outcomes to trade policies in the long run.
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Paris to Nairobi
Ujal Singh Bhatia | 23 December 2015
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Climate,
India,
TPP,
TTIP,
WTO
Trade negotiations didn’t have the happy ending of COP-21. But they portend major changes for the WTO. This month has witnessed two important events whose outcomes point to different conclusions for the future of multilateral cooperation. While the Paris Agreement belied pessimistic expectations and produced
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Employment Effects of Services Trade Reform
25-27 November, 2015
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade,
TiSA,
TTIP
Driven by spectacular technological advances and the emergence and intensification of global value chains (GVCs), trade in services has been the most dynamic part of global trade over recent years. The concurrent rise of services trade provisions in existing and forthcoming trade agreements bears testimony
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Save our Steel! Save our Jobs?
Johannes Schwarzer | 13 November 2015
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Anti-Dumping,
China,
EU,
Steel,
Tariffs
EU member States have recently intensified their calls upon the European Commission to deploy trade defence measures to stem the rising tide of cheap imports of steel from China. It is contended that the slowdown of the Chinese domestic economy has prompted steel manufacturers to
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Jobs in Global Value Chains
2 October 2015
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade
New ways of measuring global trade flows provide for a fresh look on how trade works. Data on trade in value added terms often displays substantial differences with data on trade measured in gross value. The implications for our understanding of how trade and trade
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Services Trade and Employment
Johannes Schwarzer | 7 June 2015
Trade,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade
Driven by spectacular technological advances and the emergence and intensification of global value chains, trade in services has been the most dynamic part of global trade over recent years. All regions of the world have witnessed growth in services trade, albeit at different paces. Europe
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Where Will All The Jobs Come From?
Tom Berliner | 24 April 2015
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade
In the last couple of years, a spate of magazines, articles and think-pieces have predicted a new age of automation (and robots) – one that means an increasingly stark picture for labour worldwide (see the BBC and The Economist). Even Barack Obama has been seen
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Inside CETA: Unpacking the EU-Canada free trade deal
Aaron Cosbey | 12 December 2014
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Environment,
ISDS,
Subsidies
How are sustainable development objectives treated in the latest major preferential trade agreements? In late September, the European Union and Canada released the long-awaited text of a bilateral free trade pact, five years after launching talks, and almost one year on from announcing they had
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