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Podcast 3 October 2024
Making the WTO and international trade more inclusive
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In this podcast, we asked trade professionals at the WTO Public Forum for their thoughts on one of the big issues confronting trade policy – inclusiveness. How can we ensure that the benefits and economic gains of international trade are shared as widely and as fully as possible? Does the WTO function in a way that benefits developing countries as much as richer countries? Listen to contributions from a wide range of individuals including Ralph Ossa, WTO: Anabel Gonzalez, IDB; Tahira Nasim, Scottish Development International; and more…
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Blog post 23 September 2024
University of Cambridge Lecture on World Trade, Development and Sustainability by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
By Joris Hoste.
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This blog summarises the two core themes of a lecture by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: the relationship between international trade and development and between international trade and sustainability. It also suggests directions for future research to tackle some of the outstanding challenges in achieving global sustainable development.
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Blog post 16 September 2024
Responsible Consensus? “You cannot be serious!”
By Michael Gasiorek.
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Reflections on the responsible consensus and the options for WTO reform
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Podcast 16 September 2024
Responsible consensus: a final bid to rescue the WTO from institutional irrelevance?
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‘En direct’ from the World Trade Organisation’s Public Forum 2024, this podcast focuses on the WTO’s decision-making process. Responsible consensus was a phrase first coined after the Ministerial Meeting in Abu Dhabi earlier this year, due to impasse on a number of issues. The organisations’ rules make clear that nothing can be agreed unless there is consensus among all members. But what does it mean if one country, or a small group of countries, block an agreement which is supported by most of the other 166 WTO members? Is this the fault of the majority for failing to bring the dissenting states along with them? Tackling this area where arcane questions of WTO procedure collide with raw geo-politics are special guests H.E. Mr Tan Hung Seng, Ambassador of Singapore; Gabrielle Marceau, Professor at the University of Geneva and Senior Counsellor in the Research Division (ERSD) of the WTO Secretariat; Abhijit Das, International trade expert and independent researcher; and Professor Andrew Lang, Edinburgh School of Law; with our host Chris Horseman, Borderlex.
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Podcast 5 September 2024
WTO reform - Discussion with Ambassador Ølberg the WTO’s Chair of General Council
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The WTO’s track record in updating the global trade rules that came into effect in the mid-1990s is not particularly impressive. How can the WTO be made to function better without losing its cherished status as a member-driven organization that works on the basis of consensus? The WTO’s General Council is currently grappling with the issue of how to reform the organization to make it easier to conclude new agreements and resolve disputes on the implementation of existing ones. Ahead of the WTO Public Forum next week, Chris Horseman sat down with the current chair of the General Council, Ambassador Petter Ølberg of Norway, to talk about the reforms that are needed – and the prospects of reaching an agreement to keep the organization relevant - and why he needs Taylor Swift on his side!
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Academic Paper 20 August 2024
How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?
By L. Alan Winters CB et al.
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Since Brexit, the UK has been responsible for its own trade policymaking rather than inputting into the collective policy of the European Union. This paper starts by sketching how that policy has been developed and implemented and how it is turning out. Overall, it is not very complimentary about the UK Government's efforts and so it then moves on to consider how we might do better. One dimension of this is how trade policy could be made more inclusive in formulation. I propose three (sets of) institutional reforms: increasing Parliamentary (and other) scrutiny of the government's trade policy plans; after examining how the UK public thinks about trade policy, it asks whether (how) one should take into account public attitudes to trade policy issues; finally, it argues for creating an independent source of advice and analysis on trade policy. It concludes by noting that while recent history has been disappointing, trade policy by any government would be improved by the reforms recommended.
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Briefing Paper 29 July 2024
The UK’s data governance regime and the (challenging) data partnership with Indonesia
By Phoebe Li, Minako Morita Jaeger, Javier Ruiz Diaz, Arif Perdana and Saru Arifin et al.
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The UK’s and Indonesia’s approaches to data governance and the challenges that arise from attempts to bring them closer together, which would arguably facilitate bilateral trade in digitally-delivered services.
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Video 25 July 2024
World Trade, Sustainability and Development - University of Cambridge Lecture
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Trade and investment flows are often criticised for their sustainability impacts, yet, if harnessed properly through cutting-edge international law and governance, trade can help rather than hinder the global sustainable development goals. This world-class lecture and dialogue features Dr Ngozi Iweala-Okonjo, Director General of the World Trade Organization, and Prof Meredith Crowley, Researcher within the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy and Professor of International Economics, from the University of Cambridge. The briefing highlights how trade law and policy is evolving to address our world’s challenges, underlining the idea that the WTO can and must be part of an urgent RE-globalisation towards sustainability, building on its poverty-eradication potential and green comparative advantage.
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Blog post 18 July 2024
A New Government in Westminster: What Next For Trade and Devolution?
By Lisa Claire Whitten, Viviane Gravey and Billy Melo Araujo.
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What does the change in government in Westminster mean for UK trade policy from the perspective(s) of the periphery of the three devolved administrations?
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Podcast 3 July 2024
Critical Raw Materials
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Critical Raw Materials is the topic for this episode and looks at why they have become such an important part of our trade policy discussions. The conversation explores how to ensure that our trade policies enable a flow of these critical raw materials to the industries that need them; and whether we should be concerned that the increasingly fraught geopolitical situation might create serious problems for the emergence of a new lower carbon economy. Joining Chris Horseman on this episode are Sunayana Sasmal (University of Sussex/UKTPO), Tom Moerenhout (Columbia University) and Laura Kelly (IIED).
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