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2017

E-Book 2017: The Future of the WTO and the WTO of the future (English/French)

The purpose of this initiative is to make a contribution for LIDCs and LDCs on how to adapt to the post-Nairobi situation and the changing international trade environment. Contributors are experts and specialists from academia, think tanks and private sector from the South and from the North.

Those think pieces aim at feeding in the global brainstorming that all WTO members and other stakeholders have been invited to conduct regarding the future of the multilateral trading system.

 

GED Mini-Series: Inclusiveness in the Global Trading System | PART ONE
By Xiankun Lu, Darius Rao, Fritz Putzhammer, in Global Economic Dynamics Project (GED), www.ged-project.de, 17 March 2017

GED Mini-Series: Inclusiveness in the Global Trading System | PART TWO
By Xiankun Lu, Darius Rao, Fritz Putzhammer, in Global Economic Dynamics Project (GED), www.ged-project.de, 17 March 2017

GED Mini-Series: Inclusiveness in the Global Trading System | PART THREE
By Xiankun Lu, Darius Rao, Fritz Putzhammer, in Global Economic Dynamics Project (GED), www.ged-project.de, 17 March 2017

GED Mini-Series: Inclusiveness in the Global Trading System | PART FOUR
By Xiankun Lu, Darius Rao, Fritz Putzhammer, in Global Economic Dynamics Project (GED), www.ged-project.de, 17 March 2017

2016

How to Get Out of the Box on SDT and Move the SDGs and the WTO Negotiations Ahead?
By Xiankun Lu, in ICTSD’s opinion blog on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, 7 March 2016

«La Chine n’est pas encore un pays développé»
De Xiankun Lu, dans Le Temps, édition du jeudi 3 mars 2016

Switzerland and China Should Look Beyond Bilateral for Future Cooperation – A Year-end Reflection upon Swiss-China Relations
By Xiankun Lu, in Swiss Eurasia Info, http://www.eurasiainfo.ch/en/archives/3465, February 2016

2015

¿Qué está en juego para los PMA en la Ministerial de Nairobi?
By Nicolas Imboden, in Puentes, Volume 16 – Number 10, edité par ICTSD et co-édité par IDEAS Centre, Décembre 2015

Bridges Africa – LDC stakes for Nairobi: Going all in? Volume 4, Issue 9, edited by ICTSD and co-edited by IDEAS Centre, November 2015

Passerelles – En route vers Nairobi : quelles perspectives pour les PMA ? Volume 16, Numéro 8, edité par ICTSD et co-édité par IDEAS Centre, Décembre 2015

2014

How to Re-invigorate the Cotton Issue at the WTO: Gin Ideas, Spin Proposals, Weave Solutions and Avoid Stocks
By Nicolas Imboden, in Tackling Agriculture in the Post-Bali Context – A collection of short essays, ed. by Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Christophe Bellmann and Jonathan Hepburn, October 2014.

2013

Bridges Africa – What should LDCs pack in their suitcase for Bali?, Volume 2, Issue 8, edited by ICTSD and co-edited by IDEAS Centre, November 2013

Studies and papers on LDC issues N°2
GVCs, inclusiveness, WTO and poor developing countries: A brainstorming exercise

Studies and papers on LDC issues N°1
Operationalizing the services waiver for LDCs

2011

The Accession of Least Developed Countries to the World Trade Organization
By Nicolas Imboden, in Trade and Development Symposium – Perspectives on the Multilateral Trading System, ed by ICTSD, December 2011

Developing Country Coalitions in the WTO: Strategies for Improving the Influence of the WTO’s Weakest and Poorest Members
By Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Policy Brief for the IDEAS Centre, July 2011

2010

  • Think pieces prepared for the GTDF Trade Governance Initiative

Cottier Thomas, 2010, Towards a Two-tier System in WTO Decision-Making

Dadush Uri, 2010, The WTO must reformed in the interest of the poorer countries

Draper Peter, 2010, Whither the Multilateral Trading System? A Case for Plurilaterals

Rahman Mustafizur, 2010, Decision Making in the WTO: Some Loud thinking

Vickers Brendan, 2010, Decision-making and Representation through Coallitions in the WTO (?)

 

  • Fairtrade Foundation report on cotton subsidies written in collaboration with IDEAS Centre (English/Français)

2009

The Multilateral Trading System: a US-Africa Dialogue on Cotton (English/Français)