The paper examines the attempt by the 2004 Sutherland and the 2007 Warwick Reports to reform the process of decision-making of the WTO after the collapse of the Cancun ministerial. Among WTO insiders was the fear that negotiations had gone off the rails and member states had lost their interest...

While countries continue to negotiate new mega free trade agreements in the EU and the US, they increasingly rely on anti-dumping laws to protect their industries from predatory pricing and the high costs of global structural change. Legally sanctioned protectionism has become a prominent...

The post-1945 multilateral trade system was built on hundreds of rules about investment, state subsidies, non-discrimination, comparative advantage, predatory pricing and standards-setting. It is also a system of many legal silences and low-level unenforceable aspirational language about labour...

For most experts the crisis paralyzing trade multilateralism is way down everyone's to-do list or at least so it seems. But that is far from the whole story because trade multilateralism today is about third-generation big tent trade agreements embodying the invasive presence of global...

It is a fundamental error to underestimate China's One Belt One Road. It can go off the rails, China could run out of money, or it could fall victim to crony capitalism, but BRI keeps expanding, has a unique form of soft power in its bilateral deal making, has natural constituency of high-risk...

The Delhi Rape is the most extensively covered rape case in recent Indian history. This report chronicles a media monitoring exercise of rape reporting before the Delhi incident between January 1, 2012 and August 31, 2012 . The report also examines the three-month period after the Delhi Rape in...

The paper provides an empirical overview of anti-dumping measures from 1994-2011, anti-dumping initiatives north v. south and south-south and the targeting of China's many export industries. The conclusion is that anti-dumping is often stigmatized by economists and trade lawyers as ‘rule...

The paper provides an empirical overview of anti-dumping measures from 1994-2011, anti-dumping initiatives north v. south and south-south and the targeting of China's many export industries. The conclusion is that anti-dumping is often stigmatized by economists and trade lawyers as ‘rule...

This report proceeds in two sections. First, the report presents our empirical data, mapping the power shifts in the corporate global power structure in order to ask: Who is caught up with their rivals? Who has fallen behind? And who are closing the gap? There are a lot of different metrics and...

This report examines the causes as well as the symptoms of non-standard employment. Its principal wide-angled finding is that non-standard employment has always been part of the labour market but now it has become a predominant feature. The two features of non-standard work are little or no job...