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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Monetary Policy and Sustainability. The Case of Bangladesh
Alexander Barkawi and
Pierre Monnin | 31 May 2015
Monetary,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment,
Energy,
Financial Inclusion Central banks have wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole. Their decisions on monetary policy and sustainability are closely intertwined. Nonetheless, the links between the mandates, objectives and instruments of central banks and a broad sustainability agenda are rarely reflected in
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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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At Whose Service? Jobs and Services Trade in Developing Countries
Johannes Schwarzer | 17 November 2014
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Development,
Employment,
Poverty,
Services Trade,
WTO Services-led Employment Growth? Creating jobs to match their ever increasing, relatively young labor forces is probably the biggest challenge that developing countries are facing in the medium term. Reducing unemployment is perhaps the most effective tool to achieve a wide range of development goals, such
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TTIP and Jobs: Does the Emperor Have Clothes?
Johannes Schwarzer | 21 August 2014
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade,
TTIP With negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in full swing, policymakers across the Atlantic are reiterating calls for more support of an agreement. In the wake of increasing public criticism of the plans for a deal, notably in Europe, policymakers are under
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At Whose Service? Employment Effects of Services Trade Reform in the MENA Region and Sub-Saharan Africa
2 October 2014 Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade Trade in services is the new frontier in international trade theory and practice. Modern trade agreements go beyond the removal of traditional barriers to goods trade, such as tariffs, and increasingly deal with issues previously thought to be of strictly domestic concern, notably in the
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