The European Union’s recent trade policy strategy towards China, which focuses on bilateral market access and involves a strong U S-style confrontational stance, is ineffective and short-sighted. Today there exists no genuine dialogue between China and the EU on crucial commercial issues. This...

This following study is a “meta-evaluation” of the way aid agencies evaluate and assess their trade-related operations – and was undertaken as part of the OECD’s broader efforts to improve the effectiveness of aid-for-trade. It focuses on 162 evaluations of operations in two countries -...

For simplicitly, the recommendations listed below assume that there will be one regional FTA (as shown in the attached note, the same results can be achieved by a regional set of bilateral FTAs, but at higher costs and greater uncertainty). They focus on five countries (Albania,...

The WTO used the term significant slippage to qualify changes in protection during Fall 2008 and Winter 2009. Most newspapers translated these terms into rise of protectionism. Evoking such a rise is premature. It is crucial to address this statement because it offers a huge tactical advantage...

Les pays ACP doivent donc prendre une initiative dans l’intérêt de leur développement. Se tourner vers l’Europe n’a guère de sens actuellement : pourquoi espérer de l’Europe un geste que la Commission s’obstine à ne pas faire ? Reste un forum que les pays ACP devraient explorer,...

The “Doha Round” may be finished in 2011, more than ten years after having been officially launched.2 A detailed description of the negotiations over such a long period goes far beyond the scope of a chapter, and would require a book.3 Rather, this chapter focuses on the four key questions...

The EU severe debt problem requires urgently the design and implementation of domestic pro-growth reform agendas in Europe. Opening markets to foreign competitors has always been a way to boost and buttress such agendas. A “Sleeping Doha” Round leaves preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as...

Audition de M. Patrick Messerlin, professeur d’économie à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, et directeur du Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM),le 8 avril 2003.

It is widely recognized that forecasting future climate shocks at a regional level̶which regions will be flooded, which ones will be under water stress on a year by year basis̶is largely out of reach. In such circumstances, trade gets back a role that has faded away during the last sixty years...

Après avoir longtemps ignoré l'Etat et son rôle dans la vie économique, les économistes, notamment sous l'influence de Pigou et plus encore de Keynes, ont révéré cette institution, lui accordant une connaissance approfondie des événements passés, présents et futurs, ainsi que le...