The winner of the 2017 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists is Meredith Startz of Princeton University. Her paper, “The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade”, was ranked first by the Selection Panel. She was presented with her prize of CHF 5,000 at the annual (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 22 September 2017, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document (...)
WTO members welcomed the active engagement of Belarus in its efforts to become a member of the organization and expressed readiness to maintain the positive momentum in the ongoing negotiations, at the meeting held by the Working Party on the country’s accession on 13 September 2017 — just over (...)
WTO members met on 13 and 15 September to look at issues on which they envisage possible outcomes in agriculture at the WTO’s eleventh Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires (MC11) and beyond. While most members signalled strong interest in achieving substantive outcomes in agriculture for the (...)
The fourth review of the trade policies and practices of Jamaica takes place on 13 and 15 September 2017. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Jamaica.
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo visited Beijing, China, on 12 September to participate in the “1+6” roundtable meeting hosted by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, together with five other heads of major international economic organizations and financial institutions (the IMF, World Bank, ILO, OECD and (...)
This video chronicles the ILO’s effort to establish a corridor to recruit fairly workers from Nepal to Jordan to work in the ready-made garment sector. It highlights the power of the various actors in a supply chain to make positive change when they work together to achieve a common objective (...)
At the 11-12 September informal meeting of the Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), WTO members started to comb through a compilation matrix of seven proposals to limit harmful fisheries subsidies. Line-by-line topical discussions based on the matrix are aimed at paving the way for a (...)
This video chronicles the ILO’s effort to establish a corridor to recruit fairly workers from Nepal to Jordan to work in the ready-made garment sector. It highlights the power of the various actors in a supply chain to make positive change when they work together to achieve a common objective (...)
This video chronicles the ILO’s effort to establish a corridor to recruit fairly workers from Nepal to Jordan to work in the ready-made garment sector. It highlights the power of the various actors in a supply chain to make positive change when they work together to achieve a common objective (...)