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27 November 2018
This article considers rising youth unemployment in West Africa and the role of trade and migration in meeting this challenge. Lessons and opportunities can be drawn from the implementation of free movement protocols in West Africa, with recommendations on how the rest of Africa can benefit from...
19 November 2018
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) can be used by signatory countries to manage their participation in global value chains as well as cross-border migration flows. The inclusion of one additional provision in PTAs stimulates the bilateral fragmentation of production by one percent. PTAs that...
19 November 2018
The proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements has spurred a dynamic evolution of “mode 4” provisions well beyond the standard acquired in the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. Free trade agreements signed by China and India also cover non highly skilled workers...
8 November 2018
En la era de la inteligencia artificial, los cambios en el mercado creativo revelan la necesidad de reformular las normas de derecho de autor que rigen el sector. ¿Cuáles son los principales retos para el diseño de estas normas a nivel internacional?
7 November 2018
25 years of access and benefit sharing in international treaties and national laws have not yielded the expected results nor satisfied the expectations of many countries. We must rethink genetic resources as (natural) information and not as tangible, material resources. Applying the economics of...
6 November 2018
African women are frequently over-represented in cross-border trade; however, their specific needs are insufficiently addressed. The migration aspect of cross-border trade requires greater prominence, including attention to the gendered characteristics of migration. Female traders require greater...
30 October 2018
Intra-African migration has a strong pro-trade effect. It contributes to greater intra-African trade in products and services, generates revenues for governments and regions, while addressing the continent’s broader development challenges. Migration can be a catalyst for the continent’s socio-...
30 October 2018
Japan has traditionally imposed one of the most stringent immigration policies among developed nations. But with aging demographics, its increasingly critical labour shortage is prompting more radical approaches, including relaxing a virtual ban on unskilled workers. Many countries are currently...
30 October 2018
Migration policies interact with trade through different and complex channels. Large-scale deportations of Central American nationals from the US, and considering only the remittances and trade channels, will affect adversely Central American countries’ GDP, fiscal accounts, and poverty levels...
23 October 2018
Intellectual property enforcement, which describes a weighing and balancing process for the implementation of intellectual property rights, is a priority issue in the international agenda. National authorities can adjust international norms on intellectual property enforcement as to guarantee an...
Redesigning global copyright for inclusive innovation and trade in an era of disruptive technologies
3 September 2018
The new technological frontier suggests that a more radical conception of global copyright norms will be necessary to preserve, and even advance, public benefit in the era of digital trade. A profound challenge for copyright and information policy in a world of digital trade is how the technical...
19 July 2018
Pressure is mounting on a small group of countries in relation to a patent disclosure of origin requirement for genetic resources in the WIPO IGC. Ratifications and accessions continue to accrue to the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, with more than 100 parties (105 total...
19 July 2018
Negotiators have agreed on a final version of a global “migration compact,” capping several rounds of UN talks that were designed to respond to a burgeoning migrant crisis both within and across national borders. The text outlines a series of objectives that together could help make migration safer...