The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book...

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...

Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: Global pandemic’s scarring effects and Indonesia’s economy -- Chapter 3: Economic Openness for Economic Transformation -- Chapter 4: Analysing Indonesia’s bilateral trade and investment network -- Chapter 5: Analysing bilateral Comprehensive...