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Leveraging Global Partnerships to Implement the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies : For a Sustainable and Food-secure Future

World Trade Organization - 2024

The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies aims to enhance the sustainability of fisheries resources by prohibiting some … of the most harmful types of fisheries subsidies. Implementation of the Agreement will enhance fisheries sustainability …

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Implementing the WTO agreement on fisheries subsidies : Challenges and opportunities for developing and least-developed country members

World Trade Organization - 2022

The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference, marks a major step forward for … ocean sustainability by prohibiting harmful fisheries subsidies, which are a key factor in the widespread depredation of the … world’s fish stocks. Implementing the new disciplines will present challenges for many developing country members …

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Cross-Border Mobility, COVID-19 and Global Trade

World Trade Organization - 2020

A new information note published by the WTO Secretariat highlights how trade in goods and services has been affected by temporary border closures and travel restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Trade Costs in the Time of Global Pandemic

World Trade Organization - 2020

The WTO Secretariat has published a new information note warning of possible increases to trade costs due to COVID-19 disruptions. The note examines the pandemic’s impact on key components of trade costs, particularly those relating to travel and transport, trade policy, uncertainty, and...

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Making globalization more inclusive : lessons from experience with adjustment policies

Bacchetta, Marc (ed.); Milet, Emmanuel (ed.); … - World Trade Organization - 2019

Policies aimed at helping workers adjust to the impact of trade or technological changes can provide a helping hand to the workforce and increase the benefits of open trade and new technologies. This publication contributes to the discussion on how governments can help make international trade...

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Making trade work for the environment, prosperity and resilience

World Trade Organization; UNEP - 2018

economic and social prosperity. This new co-publication by the World Trade Organization and UN Environment illustrates how …

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Global value chain development report 2019 : technological innovation, supply chain trade, and workers in a globalized world

World Trade Organization - 2017

This report takes stock of the evolution of global value chains (GVCs) in light of technological developments, such as robotics, big data and the Internet of Things. It discusses how these technologies are reshaping GVCs and examines the effect of these changes on labor markets in developed and...

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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?

World Trade Organization - 1998

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …

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COVID-19 and Global Value Chains : A Discussion of Arguments on Value Chain Organization and the Role of the WTO

World Trade Organization - 2021

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a discussion among researchers and policy makers about changes to global value chains, both about expected changes and changes that should be promoted by government policies. In this paper we conduct an in-depth analysis of the reasons...

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Global value chains in a changing world

Elms, Deborah K. (contributor); Low, Patrick (contributor) - 2013

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