At Whose Service? Jobs and Services Trade in Developing Countries
Johannes Schwarzer | 17 November 2014
Trade,
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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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Asia’s Poor Increase by One-Billion Overnight
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 16 September 2014
Trade,
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G20,
IMF,
Poverty,
Trade,
WTO The news has been exceptionally bad recently: carnage in the Middle East, race riots in the US, ongoing recession in the Eurozone and Japan, tension in the South China Sea, high youth unemployment virtually everywhere, the Ebola epidemic and so on and so depressingly forth.
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Bali Boost: WTO Lives, Snatched for Now From Jaws of Defeat
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 23 December 2013
Trade,
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WTO It would be churlish not to congratulate the WTO and especially Roberto Azevêdo, its dynamic director-general, for successfully passing a “Bali package” at the Indonesian resort well past the 11th hour on 7 December. The WTO Doha Round, launched in the Qatari capital in 2001,
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Resource Scarcity, Export Restrictions and the Multilateral Trading System
Gilles Carbonnier | 10 April 2013
Trade,
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Commodities,
Protectionism,
WTO The turn of the millennium marked a shift towards higher commodity prices and greater price volatility, as a result of high demand for natural resources from emerging economies combined with export restrictions and financial speculation. A recent Chatham House report highlights that, over the past
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“What’s it for?” – Moral responsibility in an age of globalization
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 2 December 2012
Trade,
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Financial Markets,
G20,
WTO Several years ago, I was approached by an Indian student following a lecture I had given on globalization and the interdependence of markets through cross-border flows of goods, services, ideas, knowledge, science and people. His question was: “But what’s it for?” In the late 20th/early
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