This global snapshot looks at the progress made during the past decade and assesses women’s labour market prospects by examining the gaps between men and women according to indicators such as labour force participation, unemployment and vulnerable (...)
In a speech delivered to the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington on 7 March, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said the outcome of the 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires provides a “broad path forward to improve the world trading system” and that the importance of the WTO is “directly (...)
WTO members successfully concluded almost four years of discussion by adopting the “Catalogue of Instruments” available to WTO members for managing sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, at an SPS Committee meeting on 2 March. Members may use the catalogue to seek information, initiate (...)
Speaking at a meeting of the whole WTO membership on 5 March, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo responded to a series of announcements from WTO members in recent days which suggested that a range of new, unilateral trade barriers could soon be put into force. DG Azevêdo warned of the risks posed (...)
Twenty-eight participants from around the world are taking part in the two-month Advanced Trade Policy Course (ATPC) now under way at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The English-language course, which runs from 5 February to 29 March, was opened by Ms Bridget Chilala, Director of the WTO’s (...)
At a meeting of the Council for Trade in Services on 2nd of March chaired by Ambassador Julian Braithwaite (UK), least-developed Countries (LDCs) called on WTO members to undertake capacity building measures that would enable their suppliers to take advantage of preferential treatment notified (...)
Experts from the WTO Secretariat and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) met at WTO headquarters on 1 March to discuss how to better measure trade in services in the digital age. The event was the first in the “Simply Services” speaker series, an informal platform for (...)