During the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in June 2022, the Ministerial Declaration on the Emergency Response to Food Insecurity was issued, the first multilateral declaration addressing the issue of food insecurity in WTO history. It stresses members' concerns about...
By conducting the rare-event logistic regression method, we find that the export intensity, retaliation capability, economic power and economic threat are the main factors determining the initiation of trade disputes by WTO members. Moreover, the results from seemingly unrelated regressions suggest that...
During the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in June 2022, the Ministerial Declaration on the Emergency Response to Food Insecurity was issued, the first multilateral declaration addressing the issue of food insecurity in WTO history. It stresses members' concerns about...
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China has extensively aided Africaand many other countries and regions6. Since African countries are major recipients of aid from China and China’s aid to Africa...
It replicates many WTO commitments. However, it is rather limited regarding Intellectual Property Rights and new nontrade issues. It does not include an invest- ment chapter, and the chapter on Trade and Sustainable Development was heavily criticized, both due to its scope and because it was ...
4 Trade Intelligence Asia Pacific - January / February 2023 We can add to these three examples many more that have been introduced or more actively enforced since our article nearly two years ago. China requires importers to proactively notify the possible post-clearance payment of any fees to ...
This undermines collective agenda and will formation (and to a certain degree accountable representation and thus empowered inclusion), as the media play many important roles in deliberative systems. They are “watchdogs over power, representatives of citizens and communities, knowledge translators, ...
They are not alone. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the end of second quarter 2020, its members and observers implemented 56 new trade restrictive measures unrelated to the pandemic mainly tariff increases, import bans, export duties and strict...
As in many other developing countries, there was neither a complete welfare system nor a trade-adjustment assistance program in China during the sample period. In this case, the self-insurance provided by the aforementioned household behaviors – labor supply, coresidence and saving – may act as...
In addition, many LMICs will lose support from the Global Fund, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and other donors in the coming years and will need to increase their domestic spending on priorities such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccination programs. [18] Their likely economic growth will...