The Third Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) will be held in Singapore and hosted by the National University of Singapore's Centre for International Law (CIL) and Faculty of Law on 12-14 July 2012. The CIL website for the conference, which includes...

The present paper aims to disseminate the validity of trade theories on the ground of the current international trade environment. The research objective consists in the reviewing of the traditional and new trade theories and their explanatory significance regarding the gains from trade issues....

This paper explores the impact of past and future growth in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China (PRC), and India — the ACI countries — on aggregate welfare, relative wages, and global emissions in the rest of the world. It outlines several...

The paper puts the collapse of the world trade volume in 2009 into two historic perspectives. First, the paper analyses 18 major post-1980/pre-2007 financial crises and uses these observations as a basis to critically evaluate presently available projections for world trade. Second, the paper...

Rethinking developing country status at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is essential for the institution's modernization and survival. The Trump administration has recognized this challenge and is seeking changes to the flexibilities provided to developing countries. Referred to as “special...

Inequality is a lively topic. With the trends in the US and Europe, researchers have formulated two major explanations for the problem. Trade/Openness on the one hand and Skills/Computers on the other. The quot;conventionalquot; explanation is the dominant view, primarily because empirical...

This study investigates China's new economy to estimate the impacts of China on Asian countries. For the period between 1995 and 2015, the Korea GDP increases by an average of approximately 3.34 percent and the Japanese GDP increases by approximately 0.11 percent for every one percent increase...

Benefitting from the publication of a new data set by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017, this article examines the main characteristics in the realm of state-owned multinationals, especially in terms of their geographical origin, the target countries of...

Benefitting from the publication of a new data set by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017, this paper examines the main characteristics of the universe of State-owned multinationals, especially in terms of geographical origin, target countries of outward...