Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz is Chief Executive Officer of ICTSD.
Topics: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) ECONOMIC GROWTH SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMES) LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS (GVCS) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) MULTILATERALISM NAIROBI MINISTERIAL E15 INITIATIVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TRADE FACILITATION INVESTMENT RTA EXCHANGE
Regions: CHINA
Co-Authors: CHRISTOPHE BELLMANN SHUAIHUA CHENG RICHARD SAMANS
The expansion of the trade facilitation agenda, expressed as Facilitation 2.0, is critical in a time of global industrial and societal reorganisation, of which the digitisation of economic acti... READ MORE
Trade ministries, just as other parts of government, need to respond to calls from the public and from global leaders for action on major issues. This column argues that armed with potential policy op... READ MORE
World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global trade and... READ MORE
China's 10 years of membership in the WTO has taken place against a backdrop of dynamic change in the world economy. Indeed, China's participation in the WTO and the implications of its mem... READ MORE