We examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted merchandise trade between and within Commonwealth countries. It uses bilateral trade data and a demand-driven short-term gravity model to (i) estimate trade losses, i.e. variations in intra- and extra-Commonwealth trade in goods from the...

The author paints with a deliberately broad brush, beginning with a rapid traverse of changing attitudes within the Commonwealth to methods of rights protection. The article then asks why there have been such changes, and discusses, with some reference to the freedom of expression, how those...

Litigation against a government presupposes that it is amenable to suit and there is a court of competent jurisdiction. This paper deals with the amenability to suit of, and the jurisdiction of courts over, the executive governments of the Australian Commonwealth and States. Its purpose is to...

This background paper provides a general picture of the characteristics and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC) in the Commonwealth countries. The main building blocks of the empirical analysis are based on a measure of inter-industrial linkages between and across between 43 of the 53...

This paper attempts to identify the salient economic features of M&A transactions that are relevant to takeover regulation. While attainment of the optimal mechanism in every instance may not be possible, we have suggested general guidelines as to how takeover regulation should move towards the...

The Marcellus Shale is by far the largest natural gas shale play in the United States and the largest known shale deposit in the world. Located beneath a large part of the Appalachian basin, it extends north into upstate New York, south into West Virginia and Virginia, and west into Ohio, and...

What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...

In this chapter, the discussion revolves around Africa’s engagement with the new Europe in a post-Brexit era – which, like AfCFTA, also became effective on 1 January 2021. The chapter discusses, on a broader level, Europe–Africa relations in the creative industries. Specific examples are...

Perhaps the Commonwealth of Nations is the earliest multilateral body of countries bound together by shared colonial culture, administrative language, common values, human rights, legal system, democracy and good governance. Its formation is dated back to the Statute of Westminster, an Act of...